Pfksh core dump, set -o emacs

Question

Hi, every time I try to set emacs on pfksh, it cores on me. Either set -o emacs or VISUAL=emacs or gmacs crashed pfksh right away.
set -o emacs requires another press on return while the VISUAL crashes when exporting.
Jumpstarted or full install still crashes, reproducable on all our systems, no emacs installed. Generic_120012-14 aswell as Generic_127112-06.
mdb /usr/bin/pfksh
::runh:w> set -o emacs
h:w> mdb: stop on SIGSEGV
mdb: target stopped at:
emacs_read+0x8e6: movl $0xa,(%ecx,%eax,4)
mdb: You've got symbols!
Loading modules: [ ld.so.1 libc.so.1 ]
$C080477f4 emacs_read+0x8e6(20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20)
00000020 0x20()
any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Christofer.

Answer 1

I am experiencing a similar problem. My development environment was recently migrated to a new intel server running Solaris 10. When I log into the solaris environment a script is executed that sets my environment variables. One command within the script is set -o emacs.
I use WRQ Reflections X v. 10.0.0 to telnet to the server. Frequently the terminal emulator shuts down spontaneously leaving a core file in my working directory.
Here is some data associated with the core file.
adb core
core file = core -- program ``/usr/bin/ksh'' on platform i86pc
SIGSEGV: Segmentation Fault
pstack core
core 'core' of 27635: /usr/bin/ksh
0806efee emacs_read (20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20) + 8e6
00000020 ???????? ()
pflags core
core 'core' of 27635: /usr/bin/ksh
data model = _ILP32  flags = MSACCT|MSFORK
/1: flags = 0
sigmask = 0xffffbefc,0x0000ffff cursig = SIGSEGV
Any help on how to fix this (without having to switch to vi commands) would be greatly appreciated.
TIA