Re: ivtools 1.0 on solaris: /tmp unwritable

[Scott J. <joh...@ve...>]

At 8:20 PM -0500 1/22/03, Pei Zheng wrote:
>Hi,
>I have downloaded ivtools 1.0 and built it on Solaris 8. No specific
>configuration options except a prefix. Everything seems fine. But when I run
>the program and duplicate some objects, I got errors that look like "/tmp
>unwritable". Clearly my /tmp is writable. Sometimes after a duplication
>operation, the program will crash right away. Kind of memory access or seg
>fault problem.
>
>Any idea?
>
>Thanks!
>
>-Pei
>

This problems seems somewhat unrelated to ivtools.  Nothing is 
written to /tmp (or any other file) while simply editing a document. 
Except for swap space, which you may have set up on /tmp.  Then you 
could be running out of virtual memory, which could cause a crash.

Are you familiar with the use of gdb?  This will be necessary if you 
want to dig further into the problem.  Run the program you are using 
(you didn't say which) through gdb through emacs, and you can find 
out where the crash occurs.

Scott Johnston