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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs locks up
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2021 09:49:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lf75uj1n.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210619141522.21e71ae3@gauss> (message from Joe Riel on Sat, 19 Jun 2021 14:15:22 -0700)

> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 14:15:22 -0700
> From: Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com>
> 
> I've written a debugger controlled by Emacs.  It uses make-network-process
> to communicate with a client over TCP.  Works fine on linux and Windows.
> However, when running the client in Windows 10 in virtualbox, with Emacs
> running on the host system (linux), occasionally Emacs locks up.
> 
> When that occurs I have to kill Emacs---it is otherwise unresponsive.  
> Have no good idea how to fix or debug this.  Just being able to restore Emacs 
> without killing it would be useful.  Any suggestions are appreciated.

First, this is hardly the proper place for discussing bugs in Emacs.
I suggest to file a bug report with all the details, and discuss this
in the thread about the bug report.

And the first thing I'd do when Emacs hangs is attach a debugger to it
and see where it hangs and possibly also why.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-20  6:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-19 21:15 Emacs locks up Joe Riel
2021-06-20  6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-06-20 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-20 16:05   ` Joe Riel
2021-06-20 16:11     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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