bug#7402: 23.2; loading tramp causes emacs to freeze

[Michael Albinus]

Hans Rosenfeld <rosenfeld@grumpf.hope-2000.org> writes:

> I have the same problem with a 32bit emacs on a 64bit Solaris x86. As
> soon as I try to open a remote file, emacs freezes and can only be
> killed with SIGKILL. This does not happen when running emacs as root.
>
> pstack output:
>  fe415638 door     (3, 80420c0, 0, 0, 0, 3)
>  fe3a5438 _nsc_try1door (fe4a3f48, 80421f4, 80421f8, 80421fc, 804213c, 
> 80422a0) + 64
>  fe3a5788 _nsc_trydoorcall_ext (80421f4, 80421f8, 80421fc, fe3b58cd) + 230
>  fe3b595e _nsc_search (fe4a3dc0, fe39f808, 5, 80422a0) + b6
>  fe3b4432 nss_search (fe4a3dc0, fe39f808, 5, 80422a0) + 2a
>  fe39f937 getpwuid_r (0, 88c4204, 88c4228, 400) + 5e
>  fe39f724 getpwuid (0, 48416800, 2, 89f233c, b, 2) + 2c
>  0816a4eb system_process_attributes (2, 8042d60, 0, 8042e04, 83d4298, 
> 40004000) + 104
>  081ead68 Fprocess_attributes (2, c89f3ad0, 8042d88, 81a15c4, 89cef58, 7e) + 
> 11

Tramp uses during intialization `process-attributes'. Could you, please,
check the following code:

(dolist (pid (list-system-processes))
  (process-attributes pid))

Best regards, Michael.