Package: emacs Version: 46.1 Severity: important Emacs is central to my developer workflow. I typically run a single emacs frame, maximized, have dozens of files open, and also have half a dozen emacs shell buffers open, as well as using erc (an emacs IRC client).
Two months ago I switched from Ubuntu to Debian Jessie, using the default install (Gnome 3, systemd, &c). Since that time, every few days the emacs UI freezes and becomes completely unresponsive. I usually wait several minutes to see if it recovers and then kill the process and restart, having to re-create all the context (open files, directories in shell windows, erc channels). Here are some observations when it freezes: * If I un-mazimize the window and re-maximize it, it doesn't redraw the screen. * When it freezes, the emacs process is not burning lots of CPU, nor is it blocked inside the kernel. * Running "emacsclient -nw" from another shell window also doesn't work. I tried not using a couple of extensions (erc and bash-completion), and it still hung. At one point, it would hang after about an hour of usage; when I logged out and logged back in (re-starting the window manager), then it went back to being every few days. Because of that I suspect there's something in the GUI event handling loop that's getting wedged somewhere, but it's a bit hard to tell. This is fairly disruptive to my workflow as a developer, so I'd appreciate any help. Thanks, -George -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages emacs depends on: ii emacs24 24.4+1-5 emacs recommends no packages. emacs suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
