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From: psa@otter.hpl.hp.com (Patrick Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP 9000 series 300 Gnu Emacs
Message-ID: <2980003@otter.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 16 Jan 89 15:34:52 GMT
References: <1154@csuchico.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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One possibility is that your DISPLAY environment variable is set to unix:0.
For some reason which I haven't managed to isolate this causes a kernel
panic and shuts down the system (pretty spectacularly). The fix is to set
the DISPLAY environment variable to `hostname`:0. For example if your
hostname (as returned by the hostname command) is parnold then

	export DISPLAY=parnold:0			for ksh
	setenv DISPLAY parnold:0			for csh
	DISPLAY=parnold:0 export DISPLAY 	for sh

should allow it to run. Maybe someone could enlighten me as to why a user
program can have such a catastrophic on a system.

			Patrick.