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I was trying to start emacs while using KDE and it locked up the
computer. The symptoms are that I open a terminal and type "emacs" at the
command line.  The disk spins for a couple of seconds, and then, nothing.
The computer will accept NO input from either the keyboard or the mouse.
E.g., even the capslock and Numlock buttons do nothing. There is
absolutely no response.  It is as if the keyboard and mouse had been
unplugged (which they hadn't been--I checked).

What I've done:  I've tried both emacs 19.31 and emacs 19.34.  I tried
both "emacs" and "emacs-with-x11-support" (something like that) from both
distributions.  All four ways lock up the keyboard as described above.  I
looked in the /usr/doc/emacs/PROBLEM file and tried the fixes there (i.e.,
made sure I have a host.conf file and that my hosts file is right).  I've
tried it in runlevel 4 and runlevel 3 and I've tried it with xfs and with
xfstt.  I've tried it without a window manager; i.e., just start xinit w/o
a wm.  Every way locks out the keyboard and the mouse.

My /etc/hosts file is:

127.0.0.1	localhost
127.0.0.1		Linux.localhost Linux

as set up by netconfig.

My /etc/hosts.conf is a copy of what the PROBLEMS file said to put in
there.  

I am running Slakware Linux 3.3 on a AMD486/133 w/32M RAM, much swap
space, a Trident 9680 graphics card, 2.0.30 kernel, and plenty of hard
drive space.  I have run emacs on this configuration before, and I'm not
sure what the problem is.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Please CC to mev0003@unt.edu.

Thanks for your help,

Matthew