memory and VM issues

Ross Boylan RossBoylan at stanfordalumni.org
Sun Jul 24 17:45:30 UTC 2005


Thanks for the info about what's going on.
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 08:44:29AM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
...
> This is an actual problem in the current SVN sources for Unix. The
> above error message is misleading; it suggests that the vm-display-X11
> is not being loaded. Actually, it *is* being loaded, but is failing
> due to a missing symbol reference. The patch for the misleading error
> message is going to be added to the SVN sources, but I suspect that
> Ian has not yet had an opportunity to do so. I'm less certain about
> the fix for the actual problem; I've got a working patch that compiles
> and runs, but I'm not certain that it is correct.
Here you say it compiles and runs.
> 
> I am attaching a copy of previous messages from the vm-dev list for
> your reference. These describe pretty much all that I know on the
> topic right now. Unfortunately, I'm still not able to produce a VM
> that actually works without crashing, so I'm looking forward to any
> results you might get.
Here you say it doesn't work.

I'm not following how these statements can both be true, or if there's
any reason it would work for me if it doesn't work for you.

Ross



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