emacs hangs when a sub-process goes defunct
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Wed Dec 12 13:32:00 GMT 2012
On 12/12/2012 4:31 AM, Jonas J Linde wrote:
> And Ken Brown spoke unto the world. And said:
>> On 12/6/2012 10:04 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> If that doesn't solve the problem, please try the recently released
>>> (test version) emacs-24.2.90-1. And be sue to read the release
>>> announcement, because there have been some changes:
>>>
>>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-12/msg00004.html
>
> That seems to be working - I've been running emacs-X11-24.2.90-1 for
> more than 24 hours now without a glitch.
Glad to hear it.
>> And here's one other thing you can try. Install the emacs-debuginfo
>> package. Then when emacs hangs, you can attach gdb and see if you
>> can get a backtrace that might show where emacs is stuck.
>
> I'm hoping that 24.2.90 is the way to go. Is there any point in
> debugging the old version if the new one doesn't have the same problem?
No. If the problem comes back, we should concentrate on fixing 24.2.90.
Ken
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