Re: [gentoo-dev] xemacs segfault

[Naresh Donti <ndonti@swbell.net>]

I am pretty sure this is happening because xemacs is trying to load .elc files
generated by gnu emacs. Ths byte compiled lisp files (.elc) are not compatible
between Gnu emacs and xemacs. 

This probably happened because some package independent of both emacsen
installed *.elc files which were compiled by emacs, and then you installed
xemacs and are trying to run it.

How to check if this is the case:
 * unmerge emacs and xemacs
 * find / -name \*.elc -exec rm -f {} \; -print
 * remerge xemacs

And then try running it.

The second step removes all the *.elc files on your machine. This should not
cost you too much because loading .el files is only marginally slower than
loading *.elc files. You might want to rename the files instead of removing
them.

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 07:42:49AM -0600, Dave Lee wrote:
> 
> 
> Arcady Genkin wrote:
> > Dave Lee <davel@canuck.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Has anyone been able to figure out why xemacs segfaults on startup?  As
> > > mentioned before, if you are emerge-ing something, than xemacs will
> > > actually run w/o segfaulting.  This is strange behavior. TIA,  Dave
> > 
> > Which version?
> 
> both 21.1.whatever and 21.4.6
> 
> > Have you tried
> > 
> >   xemacs -debug-init
> >   xemacs -vanilla
> > 
> > Also try running in the terminal with
> > 
> >   xemacs -nw
> 
> I did try -vanilla and -norc, but not the others.  I'll see what they do
> for me.
> 
> > Perhaps these would help you to pin-point the problem...
> 
> I dont know, would it?  Can anybody see why xemacs would run just fine
> when I am in the process of compiling something else, but when I am not
> compiling anything it segfaults immediately.
> 
> I did try to run strace on xemacs, and although I dont have the results at
> hand to cut and paste, the segfault was happening after a bunch of stat
> calls that were looking for default.{elc,el,} but when I am compiling
> something nothing happens here other than ENOENT.
> 
> Dave
> 
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Naresh Donti
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