From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?SmFuIERqw6Rydg==?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU Emacs/GLib filling up ~/.xsession-errors with 42GB of warnings Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:49:24 +0200 Message-ID: <4CC51A64.5080703@swipnet.se> References: <87d3qzeag0.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87bp6j1eos.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287985788 16171 80.91.229.12 (25 Oct 2010 05:49:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:49:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 25 07:49:46 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PAFwA-0006pu-IJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:49:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49485 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PAFwA-0001GH-48 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:49:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35506 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PAFw1-0001GC-DN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:49:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PAFw0-0003HL-2L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:49:29 -0400 Original-Received: from smtprelay-b11.telenor.se ([62.127.194.20]:50097) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PAFvz-0003HC-SK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:49:28 -0400 Original-Received: from ipb1.telenor.se (ipb1.telenor.se [195.54.127.164]) by smtprelay-b11.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B47E8C44 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:49:26 +0200 (CEST) X-SENDER-IP: [85.225.45.100] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ajc4ALK2xExV4S1kPGdsb2JhbACDHoRSmWsMAQEBATUtqVGRG4EigzJ0BI1T X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.58,234,1286143200"; d="scan'208";a="144398316" Original-Received: from c-642de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.100]) by ipb1.telenor.se with ESMTP; 25 Oct 2010 07:49:26 +0200 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.13] (zeplin [172.20.199.13]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 74CB07FA05A; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:49:25 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; sv-SE; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101004 Thunderbird/3.1.5 In-Reply-To: <87bp6j1eos.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132079 Archived-At: I think you should update the PROBLEMS entry also. Jan D. Chong Yidong skrev 2010-10-24 23.08: > asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sj=C3=B8gren) writes: > >> This just happened to me again: GNU Emacs=C2=B9 filled up my root-part= ition >> 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.