From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
Diego Petteno <flameeyes@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs daemon dies at Xorg crash
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:00:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18763.21652.870274.903036@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200812190046.mBJ0k7Im014390@mothra.ics.uci.edu>
>>>>> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>> >> > Can you try the patch at:
>> >> > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/22201
>> >>
>> >> Tested and Emacs doesn't die anymore. I find the "Connection lost ..."
>> >> message in the *Messages* buffer after reconnecting.
>>
>> > IMO that patch is good, but it fixes the effect in this case, not the
>> > cause.
>>
>> Hm, could you please elaborate what you mean by "effect" and "cause"
>> here?
> Emacs dies because something tries to call message while no frame is
> open. This is the "effect". The "cause" is whatever causes that
> message to be written, it probably should not happen.
But "X connection lost" is precisely what happens. What could Emacs do
to prevent this, if there is suddenly no X server anymore?
> And indeed, even for you, it happens only for some specific window
> managers.
Looks like IceWM sends a WM_DELETE_WINDOW message to the X clients
before it exits, while Xfce4 doesn't do this.
What happens if you kill -9 your X server? Does Emacs die?
Ulrich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-19 8:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2008-12-17 11:10 ` Emacs daemon dies at Xorg crash Ulrich Mueller
2008-12-17 11:37 ` dhruva
2008-12-17 16:03 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-17 17:08 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-17 19:25 ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-12-17 22:51 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-18 12:03 ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-12-18 12:14 ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-12-18 19:14 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-18 22:03 ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-12-18 22:49 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-19 0:04 ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-12-19 0:46 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-19 8:00 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2008-12-19 17:00 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-19 17:27 ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-12-19 17:47 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-19 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-19 16:45 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-20 18:35 ` Ulrich Mueller
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