Re: pkg/50894: emacs 24.5 core dumps on startup on NetBSD 7.0 i386 on VMWare

[Jovan Trujillo <jovan.trujillo2%gmail.com@localhost>]

I fixed it by building emacs through pkg_src on my local VMWare instance.

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger
<joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR pkg/50894; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: pkg/50894: emacs 24.5 core dumps on startup on NetBSD 7.0 i386
>  on VMWare
> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 19:51:13 +0100
>
>  On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 06:10:00PM +0000, jovan.trujillo2%gmail.com@localhost wrote:
>  > I installed emacs-24.5 through pkgin from main NetBSD ftp server. I
>  > try to run it from both the terminal and xterm and it immediately core
>  > dumps with a memory fault. I'm running NetBSD on VMWare Player 6.0.7
>  > on Windows 7 with 1 GB of virtual RAM.
>
>  This is a known bug of Emacs when build on either a 64bit host or Xen.
>  Since the top 1GB of the address space is no longer reserved, things get
>  loaded at those positions, but after the coredumping / unexec procedure,
>  a startup on "real" non-Xen i386 no longer works since those areas are
>  no reserved. No fix is currently known.
>
>  Joerg
>