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I'm having an ugly problem with 18.55.

Here are the first two strikes against me: I'm using an IBM RT under
AIX and using Yellow pages. Everything has always worked fine on the
master YP server. My problem is on the slaves.

I try and go into emacs on one of the slaves. I get Fatal error (11)
Memory Fault, or sometimes Fatal error (10) Bus Error. There are two
solutions to the problem, neither of which makes sense:

1. If I get rid of a couple of environment variables, everything works
hunky dory. So I figured it was memory size. I up the stack size to 3
meg, but still no luck. I get the same errors if I leave all of my
setenv's. (This happens with any environment variables I happen to
choose.)

2. I add my name to /etc/passwd before the YP flag line (+::0:0::) and
everything works. Even with my damn environment variables. This sounds
like emacs is not dealing with YP, but strangely enough, it was
working fine last week and I don't know what changed.

What's going on? An answer like "YP is a stupid program" won't do. It
*is* a stupid program and AIX *is* a stupid OS, but I'm stuck with it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Pete
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Pete Resnick             (...so what is a mojo, and why would one be rising?)
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