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

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/50894; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jovan Trujillo <jovan.trujillo2%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/50894: emacs 24.5 core dumps on startup on NetBSD 7.0 i386 on VMWare
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 14:27:45 -0700

 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
 >