From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Eilert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Emacs hangs - kind of Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:06:38 -0000 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1182913598.757855.210140@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182930037 12182 80.91.229.12 (27 Jun 2007 07:40:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:40:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 27 09:40:36 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I3S8g-0006GK-4y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:40:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I3S8f-0004kW-Kw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:40:33 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 201.9.22.153 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1182913598 1410 127.0.0.1 (27 Jun 2007 03:06:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:06:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.4 (Ubuntu-feisty),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=201.9.22.153; posting-account=yKaljQ0AAAAq31OZio8uJ-5as_0K66_K Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149713 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:39:11 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45302 Archived-At: Hi, In my home machine (Ubuntu Feisty), Emacs is behaving... strangely. While it works fine when I'm interacting with it, it appears not to get CPU time when I'm not controlling it directly (maybe that's not an accurate description, see below). Since it does not happen when I'm typing, issuing commands and so forth, I didn't notice at first. Screen redraws are not affected - X11 sense. However, shells, IRC sessions and whatever else might be running sometimes do not update. This appears to be causing ERC to drop connections too. If I try to play songs using EMMS, they will play fine, until the song finishes. Then, I have to switch to the Emacs window (and no, it's not suspended in a text terminal, that's under X) for it to "wake up" again. Google wasn't very helpful, then again, I don't know how to search for this problem. Anyone's got a clue about what might be causing it, or how I could I better diagnose the problem?