emacs on freebsd 5.3

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 at 17:32:07 -0800, Tony Tung wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 at 17:20:24 -0800, Tony Tung wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have an unusual problem I was hoping someone could help me with.  I have
>>> a FreeBSD 5.3 server that's been up for longer than a month.  In that
>>> period, everything seemed fine.  However, all of a sudden, I'm no longer
>>> able to spawn a shell in emacs.  In fact, I cannot start any process
>>> (shell, gdb, grep, compile) inside emacs.  It is happening to all the
>>> users, which makes me wonder if there's some OS-related issue in play
>>> here.
>>>
>>> I've tried restarting emacs, bypassing the emacs startup file,
>>> reinstalling emacs, and just about everything I could think of short of
>>> restarting the server (don't want to do that until I'm physically
>>> present).
>>
>> It would be worth attaching a ktrace to the Emacs to see what it's
>> doing.  Something like this:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> You should then look for a call to fork or execve and see what errors
>> are returned.
>
> Strangely enough, that seems to have fixed the problem.  Other users are
> seeing a return to "normal" behavior as well.

That shouldn't have made any difference.  It was just to help you find
the problem.  Looks like it has escaped.

Greg
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