Emacs Lock-Up on Solaris 2.8

[Brad Howes]

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I encounter an intermittant lock-up while running Emacs 21.3 under Solaris
2.8. I built from the CVS tree in order to fix a Solaris bug when Emacs is
compiled with GCC 3.3. When locked-up, the screen will refresh, and the
cursor will hilight/unhilight when an Emacs frame has focus, but the cursor no
longer flashes, and I am unable to do anything with the Emacs process other
than kill it. I cannot yet determine what I am doing that brings about a
lock-up, so I do not have a reproducible case. I saw some threads on the
emacs-devel mailing list that there were some signaling issues with HP, and
I'm wondering if there are similiar issues under Solaris 8.

If I run Solaris `truss' on the running emacs process, I see the following
recurring system call trace:

truss -p 26661
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM [caught]
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0xFFBFDF18, 0x00000000)  = 0
setcontext(0xFFBFE080)
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM [caught]
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0xFFBFDF18, 0x00000000)  = 0
setcontext(0xFFBFE080)
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM [caught]
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0xFFBFDF18, 0x00000000)  = 0
setcontext(0xFFBFE080)
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM [caught]
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0xFFBFDF18, 0x00000000)  = 0
setcontext(0xFFBFE080)
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM [caught]
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0xFFBFDF18, 0x00000000)  = 0
setcontext(0xFFBFE080)
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM [caught]
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0xFFBFDEA8, 0x00000000)  = 0
setcontext(0xFFBFE010)
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM [caught]
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0xFFBFDEA8, 0x00000000)  = 0
setcontext(0xFFBFE010)
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM [caught]
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0xFFBFDF18, 0x00000000)  = 0
setcontext(0xFFBFE080)
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM [caught]
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0xFFBFDF18, 0x00000000)  = 0
setcontext(0xFFBFE080)
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM [caught]
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0xFFBFDEA8, 0x00000000)  = 0
setcontext(0xFFBFE010)
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM [caught]
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0xFFBFDF18, 0x00000000)  = 0
setcontext(0xFFBFE080)
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM [caught]
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0xFFBFDF18, 0x00000000)  = 0
setcontext(0xFFBFE080)
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM [caught]
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0xFFBFDEA8, 0x00000000)  = 0
setcontext(0xFFBFE010)
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM [caught]
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0xFFBFDF18, 0x00000000)  = 0
setcontext(0xFFBFE080)
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM [caught]
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, 0xFFBFDEA8, 0x00000000)  = 0
setcontext(0xFFBFE010)
    Received signal #14, SIGALRM [caught]


In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2003-07-14 on max
configured using `configure '--prefix=/home/max/bradh/local' 
'CFLAGS=-I/home/max/bradh/local/include -I/home/max/bradh/local/include/X11' 
'LDFLAGS=-L/home/max/bradh/local/lib -L/home/max/bradh/local/lib/X11 
-R/home/max/bradh/local/lib -R/home/max/bradh/local/lib/X11''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Recent input:
M-x k s h <return> p s m e <return> t r u s s SPC 2 
6 6 6 1 <return> M-p M-b - p SPC <return> C-c C-c <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> 
<report-emacs-bug>

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