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From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: GNU Emacs/GLib filling up ~/.xsession-errors with 42GB of warnings
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:02:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3qzeag0.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> (raw)

  Hi.

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.

I think it was because I had an emacsclient X window open on my phone,
which lost connection when I walked the dog.

It happened once before, so I thought I would report it, as it severely
cripples the system it happens to when the filesystem is filled up.

From Googling I can see that the answer to people who hit this usually
is "Don't use GTK, use Lucid"² - so I guess I have to talk Romain
Francoise into creating another set of snapshot packages³.

Or is there a way to turn off those warnings, or some other clever
workaround I can employ?

  Best regards,

    Adam

¹ GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of
  2010-10-16 on elegiac, modified by Debian

² http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=1493
  http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.bug/browse_thread/thread/7492b3293cee1b45
  http://www.archivum.info/bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org/2009-08/01037/bug-4078-23.1-Forcibly-breaking-%27emacsclient-c%27-X-connections-can-crash-emacs.html
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs23/+bug/543611

³ http://emacs.orebokech.com/

-- 
 "All you'll see                                              Adam Sjøgren
  Is a tightlipped smile                                 asjo@koldfront.dk
  On a scared little man
  As the train runs wild"




             reply	other threads:[~2010-10-24 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-24 18:02 Adam Sjøgren [this message]
2010-10-24 21:08 ` GNU Emacs/GLib filling up ~/.xsession-errors with 42GB of warnings Chong Yidong
2010-10-25  5:49   ` Jan Djärv
2010-10-25 16:47     ` Chong Yidong

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