forcemerge 278382 487929
thanks
On 2008-06-25 10:41 +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> 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)
This is #278382 aka #259362.
> 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 ?? ()
You would need to rebuild emacs21 from source (e.g., "apt-get -b source
emacs21") and run it from the debian/build-x/src directory. Also, you
want to install libc6-dbg to get information about the system calls.
But probably you'd be waisting your time, bugs in emacs21 will very
likely not get fixed anymore. Please switch to emacs22 (or emacs22-gtk,
that one looks nicer) and see if the problem persists.
Sven
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