Re: [XonX-Users] Crashes!!

[Torrey T. L. <to...@mr...>]

At 4:20 PM -0700 10/11/01, Ron Cohen wrote:
>Before upgrading to OS 10.1, and XDarwin 1.0a3 (from 1.0a1),
>I had a very stable system. with any x application I tried.
>
>NOW I find that running xemacs brings down the Mac
>with a kernel (debugger) panic, quite frequently.
>
>I am experiencing this with either the xemacs 21.1.12
>binaries downloadable from sealiesoftware.com, or
>with xemacs 21.4.3 compiled from source downloaded from xemacs.org
>(along with sealiesoftware.com's Darwin source patch).
>
>Is anyone else out there experiencing this problem?
>Does anyone know what to do about it?
>
>If it matters, I am running a dual-450 MHz processor G4,
>with 256 MB RAM.

This is a common problem for anyone with a dual processor machine. 
There are bugs filed on this at the XonX and Fink projects and it has 
been discussed on the Darwin Developers list. This bug has also been 
reported when using XTools. There is apparently a kernel problem with 
10.1 on dual processor machines that xemacs exploits. There was a 
possible patch posted on the Darwin Developers list (if you feel like 
rebuilding your kernel) so hopefully an official fix will be 
forthcoming from Apple shortly.

--Torrey