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We've just installed emacs 18.55.1 on our Pyramid MIS/2 running OSx200DNQ
(their fancy name for SysV/BSD4.3). However, a problem has occurred...

Occasionally, the emacs will hang, and _nothing_ will kill it, including
a kill -9, killing the parent process, or any other method we could think
of... Checking the process on 'ps' reveals that the O/S thinks the process
is in a 'Disk (or other short term) wait' Unfortunately it has been in this
state for about 4 days, and while this may be short term on a galactic scale,
it's certainly long enough for me :-) 
This seems to occur when it tries to spawn another process, for example, trying
to run a shell in a window, or running an emacs shell...

Another interesting thing: if the process is niced to 19, after a while (an
hour or two) it resets its own nice value to 0. We now have 6 unkillable
emacs processes (as it has hung 3 times, when trying to spawn a multiple
version of itself) and these are taking up about 9 Meg of memory, I would
appreciate any ideas/suggestions. If we cannot solve this problem, I will
have to remove it from our system entirely (if it will let me :-)

Thanks,

Anthony





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