From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs/GLib filling up ~/.xsession-errors with 42GB of warnings
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:49:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC51A64.5080703@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bp6j1eos.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
I think you should update the PROBLEMS entry also.
Jan D.
Chong Yidong skrev 2010-10-24 23.08:
> asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:
>
>> This just happened to me again: GNU Emacs¹ filled up my root-partition
>> by writing 42GB of copies of this line:
>>
>> (emacs-snapshot-gtk:6008): GLib-WARNING **: g_main_context_check() called recursively from within a source's check() or prepare() member.
>
> Hmm, previously this bug was a nuisance, but filling users' hard disks
> is a serious problem.
>
> Given this, I think it's best not to try to be too clever in handling
> the loss of X connections. I've just checked in a patch that kills GTK
> Emacs when that happens.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-25 5:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-24 18:02 GNU Emacs/GLib filling up ~/.xsession-errors with 42GB of warnings Adam Sjøgren
2010-10-24 21:08 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-25 5:49 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2010-10-25 16:47 ` Chong Yidong
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