From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Ryan Grant <rgrant@metascopic.com>
Cc: 6165@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6165: 23.1.50; ido-mode stalls unexpectedly
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 15:34:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvdau1bry.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikaAlLCIVJbX5h1m4MEYRRXmBiGRC37BdLJQeQN@mail.gmail.com> (Ryan Grant's message of "Mon, 10 May 2010 15:35:25 -0700")
> BUG: ido-find-file blocks all event processing while listing directory.
> therefore, under certain circumstances, emacs APPEARS dead. actually it
> is just waiting while hundreds of subdirectories, on various slow NFS
> mounts, are listed (/bin/ls is no faster). "appears dead" means window
> manager suggests killing it, though after directory listing completes
> (in 40 seconds), it recovers.
IIUC C-g is no help, right?
Can you run Emacs under GDB and show us a few backtraces of what it's
doing while "apparently dead"?
Make sure you start Emacs from its .../emacs/src directory so that GDB
reads the .gdbinit file which makes it display the Lisp backtrace
as well.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-11 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-10 22:35 bug#6165: 23.1.50; ido-mode stalls unexpectedly Ryan Grant
2010-05-11 19:34 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-09-21 20:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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