Re: emacs --daemon and GDK default display

[Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>]

>>>>> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Jason Rumney wrote:
>> While I think that the blame is with libcanberra, I'm confused
>> about the fact that the segfault only happens during the second
>> request from a client. Does it mean that there is a GDK default
>> display at the time of the first request, but not for the second
>> one? Why?

> Just a guess without looking at libcanberra, but could the bug be
> that libcanberra remembers the default display created during the
> first request and tries to reuse it after it is closed?

It doesn't remember it. libcanberra just calls a GTK function, which
in turn asks the GDK display manager for the default display. And that
returns a valid display for the first request, but a null pointer for
the second one.

Ulrich