From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Zombie subprocesses (again) Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 01:45:35 +0200 Message-ID: <87hahqvd28.fsf@web.de> References: <8761y7ss7z.fsf@web.de> <51A07B3C.6020502@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369525585 12753 80.91.229.3 (25 May 2013 23:46:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 23:46:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Development To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 26 01:46:24 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UgOAI-00063I-P7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 May 2013 01:46:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44499 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UgOAI-0000nj-DB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 19:46:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47873) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UgOA8-0000e8-U1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 19:46:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UgOA3-0003yj-Fa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 19:46:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.11]:53227) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UgOA3-0003yf-5m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 19:46:07 -0400 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([82.113.98.88]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb103) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MSrgv-1UpyPY1fBV-00SUS8; Sun, 26 May 2013 01:45:56 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: Paul Eggert , Emacs Development In-Reply-To: <51A07B3C.6020502@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sat, 25 May 2013 01:50:04 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:AtR+a/57fl3dlrUh5BpaFbcLIAAnxB8uHgvHKJ2O00O VMo84a/TzxhOUcD8DEISePq0q0Lu71FoQPnp80iX+92hY5EQFD dcl1RDiUPZl95lG3UFXwVu+WGDDVgkbVvxmt13ClnJg5WCA9ie l6KOj9Pivn5gRkHcEetD1OOoo4KKpV3o2GuQkJaIbhRtDVrueA Y4JnEO5/+9E2/H0Fw0KALIAEV1tKG+jFulvlgIXqSk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.11 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:159802 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: > I can reproduce the problem on Ubuntu 13.04. > Apparently when you start up a GTK Emacs session > that can't talk to dbus (because it's su'ed), the dbus library > starts up its own service, using dbus-launch. > This messes up Emacs somehow (I don't know why). Thanks for checking. > It's probably worth filing a new bug report for this. Done - 14474. > A possible workaround is to launch your own dbus service before > invoking Emacs, though I haven't tried this. How do I do that? Thanks, Michael.