Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!gatech!linus!deford From: deford@linus.UUCP (Kevin Deford) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Problems with GNU on ALLIANT FX/8 Message-ID: <26323@linus.UUCP> Date: 7 Mar 88 20:33:34 GMT Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA Lines: 31 I have just brought up GNU 18.50 on an alliant running OS CONCENTRIX 3.1. It is running NFS and all user home directories are NFS links to a sun server. After compiling and installing GNU, I noticed that everytime I wanted to save a file, I got "IO error writing ". Upon further investigation, I found that when editing files which were on local disk structures, everything was fine. The problem was when editing a file on a remote host - all user directories. More interesting was the fact that it was a semi-intermittant problem. It seemed that if one edited a file and tried to save it, the above error occured. If next the user exited emacs and answered yes to the question "Save file /guru/deford/.cshrc? (y or n)", the changes did get stored correctly. If one then edited that file again, everything was ok, until the user read in another file - at which point the problem re-occured. It seems to be related to the backup files that are dropped out by GNU and then read back in across the NFS link. We have a problem similar to this when dealing with binaries that are located on a NFS structure but are compiled on the Alliant. All binaries must reside on a local disk in order for the kernal to accept them (we get the following rejection: Kernel refused execution of abin/mg.abin. In anycase, has anyone used GNU on an Alliant in a similar situation and had similar problems? -- Kevin M. DeFord Internet: deford@linus%mitre-bedford.arpa; UUCP: linus!mitre-bedford!deford Office: 1A420, phone (617)271-3424 Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730