Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: emacs23
I am trying to start using emacs --daemon and emacsclient, so that I can
easily have multiple emacs windows sharing a single process. However, my
attempts are frustrated by the fact that when I use "emacsclient -c" to
create a new window in an exising emacs session, emacs crashes about 1
in 5 times. It seems completely random.
Here's what I've been using to reproduce this:
x=0; emacs23 -Q --daemon &>/dev/null; while emacsclient -c &>/dev/null;
do x=$(( $x + 1 )); done; echo "Created $x windows before crash."
That will start the daemon, and then keep spawning new emacs windows as long as
the daemon is running. Just keep closing the windows, and new ones will pop up.
Every time I do this command, I get a different number of windows before emacs
crashes. On my last five tries, I have gotten 7, 17, 12, 18, and 24 windows.
Hence my claim of randomness.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Mar 21 10:34:10 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Package: emacs23 23.1+1-4ubuntu3.1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13bfsbfq1.43-generic
SourcePackage: emacs23
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13bfsbfq1-generic x86_64
** Affects: emacs23 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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emacsclient -c randomly crashes emacs about 1 in every 5 to 10 times
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/543611
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