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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!news.uoregon.edu!news.orst.edu!news.uidaho.edu!usenet From: Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.0.5 Crashes Date: 18 Oct 1995 15:06:06 -0700 Organization: vi vi vi! the sign of the evil one Lines: 18 Sender: nawaz921@crater.cs.uidaho.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <imspkqzbu9.fsf@crater.cs.uidaho.edu> References: <DGJqxD.8HG@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: fn@uidaho.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: crater.cs.uidaho.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk's message of Mon, 16 Oct 1995 14:57:48 GMT X-Newsreader: (ding) Gnus v0.99.13 In article <DGJqxD.8HG@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes: $ I have recently had several crashes when starting emacs, which cause $ the screen to be completely blanked and require pressing the reset $ button to reboot. Is there any known bug in 2.0.5 that might cause $ this? And given that I don't get a panic, how can I start debugging? what version of emacs? how much memory is in your machine, and how much swap? what else is running when you start up emacs? are there any odd messages in /var/log/messages? what does your kernel config look like? what kind of hardware do you have? for the record, i've not had crashes caused by emacs or any other application on the three (four?) freebsd machines i've used. it seems very odd to me that emacs could/would cause a crash...