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changeset 52985:92ad3f84faf9
From David Ponce: document segfaults with the Linux kernels that
enable the Exec-shield functionality.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 03 Nov 2003 06:21:45 +0000 |
| parents | 7171810ff406 |
| children | 5feae36d70a9 |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Mon Nov 03 05:55:42 2003 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Mon Nov 03 06:21:45 2003 +0000 @@ -1,6 +1,32 @@ This file describes various problems that have been encountered in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs. +* Segfault on GNU/Linux using certain recent versions of the Linux kernel. + +With certain recent Linux kernels (like the one of Redhat Fedora Core +1), the new "Exec-shield" functionality is enabled by default, which +creates a different memory layout that breaks the emacs dumper. + +You can check the Exec-shield state like this: + + cat /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield + +It returns 1 or 2 when Exec-shield is enabled, 0 otherwise. Please +read your system documentation for more details on Exec-shield and +associated commands. + +When Exec-shield is enabled, building Emacs will segfault during the +execution of this command: + +temacs --batch --load loadup [dump|bootstrap] + +To work around this problem, it is necessary to temporarily disable +Exec-shield while building Emacs, using the `setarch' command like +this: + + setarch i386 ./configure <configure parameters> + setarch i386 make <make parameters> + * Characters are displayed as empty boxes or with wrong font under X. This can occur when two different versions of FontConfig are used.