tlug: New Kernel + XEmacs = BAD medicine (sound-related?)

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Gushee <matt@example.com> writes:

    Matt> Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
    >> >>>>> "Matt" == Matt Gushee <matt@example.com> writes:
    >> 
    Matt> As part of my never-ending quest to get my sound card
    Matt> working, I compiled a new 2.0.34 kernel yesterday. It seems
    Matt> to work, and I finally have sound (hallelujah!), but there's
    Matt> a serious catch. Twice yesterday, I booted up with the new
    Matt> kernel, started up XEmacs, and was typing away when -- POOF! 
    Matt> The system was hung ... couldn't do anything with the
    Matt> keyboard or mouse. So I had to do a hard reset. Ouch.
    >> Version of XEmacs?

    Matt> Oh, that was dumb of me. 20.3, home-built w/ glibc 2.0.5
    Matt> (now using 2.0.7).

Urk.  I don't recall the details and am deep in preparation for taking 
my ladies to California so don't want to grep the archive.  (The only
reason I'm reading tlug is so I can stuff it into gzipped archives.)

But somewhere around 2.0.7 glibc started f**king with the call
sequence in such a way that XEmacs's unexec procedure got hosed (glibc 
initializations were doing setjmp/longjmps as I recall - Arrrgh.)  It
may have been a bad interaction with egcs or early versions of gcc
2.8, too.

If you can give any more details, you should try comp.emacs.xemacs
with this one.  I hadn't heard that this combination could hose an
existing XEmacs so I could be wrong.

    Matt> I don't run telnetd. I suppose I could, if that would be a
    Matt> good test strategy.

This tells you whether the system died or if it's "just" the console.

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