Package: emacs21
Version: 21.4a+1-5.4
Severity: normal
About once a day (and I do not know how to reproduce it at will),
Emacs starts an endless loop, not refreshing its screen and not
accepting requests.
kill is useless, I must kill -KILL, losing text :-(
ps shows:
stephane 11128 0.0 0.2 12176 7752 pts/7 S 10:26 0:00 emacs
/home/stephane/Mail/compose/mutt-ludwigVII-1000-11103-1 --eval (setq
backup-inhibited t) --funcall=post-mode --funcall=turn-on-auto-fill
When it occurs, strace shows:
--- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) ---
gettimeofday({1214382705, 259392}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1214382705, 259441}, NULL) = 0
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 1000}}, NULL) = 0
sigreturn() = ? (mask now [IO])
futex(0xb7cd5140, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
--- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) ---
gettimeofday({1214382705, 267439}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1214382705, 267487}, NULL) = 0
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 1000}}, NULL) = 0
sigreturn() = ? (mask now [IO])
futex(0xb7cd5140, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
--- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) ---
gettimeofday({1214382705, 275483}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1214382705, 275531}, NULL) = 0
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 1000}}, NULL) = 0
sigreturn() = ? (mask now [IO])
futex(0xb7cd5140, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
--- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) ---
gettimeofday({1214382705, 283531}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1214382705, 283579}, NULL) = 0
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 1000}}, NULL) = 0
sigreturn() = ? (mask now [IO])
futex(0xb7cd5140, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
--- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) ---
gettimeofday({1214382705, 291698}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1214382705, 291747}, NULL) = 0
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 1000}}, NULL) = 0
sigreturn() = ? (mask now [IO])
I am not sure how to use gdb to report anything useful. If I attach
gdb to emacs, all I get is:
(gdb) where
#0 0xb7fd1410 in ?? ()
#1 0xbf98b44c in ?? ()
#2 0x00000002 in ?? ()
#3 0x00000000 in ?? ()
[Tested as an X window only. It seems to appear only when run from
mutt, the actual command line is in the ps output above.]
I use the same setup for many years and the problem appeared only with lenny.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages emacs21 depends on:
ii emacs21-bin-common 21.4a+1-5.4 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgif4 4.1.6-4 library for GIF images (library)
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libncurses5 5.6+20080308-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.27-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library
ii libtiff4 3.8.2-10 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.4-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.7-1 X11 pixmap library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-15 Xaw3d widget set
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
emacs21 recommends no packages.
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