From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: raman <tv.raman.tv@gmail.com>, "T. V. Raman" <raman@google.com>,
17358@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17358: 24.4.50; emacs not recognizing process-exit correctly?
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 17:03:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <535D9ABD.2010709@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iopu1fys.fsf@gmail.com>
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On 04/27/2014 04:59 PM, T. V. Raman wrote:
> This has now happened to me with both mplayer and gpg, so I am
> beginning to suspect a bug in the process status handling code
> ...
>
> Symptoms: Happens in long-running emacs sessions, and fails to
> repro if you kill and restart Emacs.
How long?
> When the bug bites,, emacs hangs waiting for the subprocess even
> though the subprocess has quit. Happens for example when you open
> a foo.gpg file. If this happens, the gpg process finishes
> decrypting the file, but Emacs fails to notice that it is done,
> and hangs. Hitting C-g produces the message "buffer *epg* has a
> running process ...". If you answer "no" to kill that process,
> emacs continues to hang. Checking status of the gpg process from
> a different terminal shows that process' status as "defunct".
>
> Similar behavior with mplayer as well.
>
> This is on an oldish Linux box that is still running Ubuntu
> Jaunty, but with updated libs for gnutls etc.
Just a hunch: can you try a non-glib Emacs?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-28 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-27 23:59 bug#17358: 24.4.50; emacs not recognizing process-exit correctly? raman
2014-04-28 0:03 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2014-04-28 2:02 ` T. V. Raman
2014-05-17 6:57 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-17 15:08 ` raman
2014-05-19 16:42 ` T.V Raman
2015-12-26 14:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-26 16:56 ` raman
2015-12-26 17:00 ` Paul Eggert
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