From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ehud Karni" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Weird emacs behavior Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 14:20:47 +0200 Organization: Mivtach-Simon Insurance agencies Message-ID: <200602011220.k11CKlin028062@beta.mvs.co.il> References: Reply-To: ehud@unix.mvs.co.il NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8-i Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138824934 2127 80.91.229.2 (1 Feb 2006 20:15:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 20:15:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs@gun.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 01 21:15:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4ONR-0000X5-VL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:14:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4OEv-0003gW-1F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:06:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4Jur-0002UV-Ec for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 10:29:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4JhK-0007f4-CO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 10:15:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4H1v-000165-GW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:24:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.16.147.12] (helo=unix.mvs.co.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F4H0Z-0004kZ-GU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:22:48 -0500 Original-Received: from beta.mvs.co.il (beta [10.253.0.3]) by unix.mvs.co.il (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k11CKoYB021018 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 14:20:50 +0200 Original-Received: from beta.mvs.co.il (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beta.mvs.co.il (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k11CKnAv028066 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 14:20:49 +0200 Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by beta.mvs.co.il (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k11CKlin028062; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 14:20:47 +0200 Original-To: lchang@clickshift.com In-reply-to: (message from Leo Chang on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:38:16 -0800) X-Mailer: Emacs 21.3.1 rmail (send-msg 1.108) 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:32950 Archived-At: On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:38:16 -0800, Leo Chang wrote: > > There is an unexplained behavior that we've seen on a few machines we have > with emacs. These are Redhat Enterprise Linux boxes that we usually ssh to. > Xforwarding works fine. All X apps including emacs work fine. Then, after > a long time (weeks or months), emacs stops appearing in its own window when > you ssh into the box. Instead, after a long wait, it croaks with something > like "Connection Lost to Xserver. localhost 10:0." > > At this point, you can open ALL X applications except for emacs. Xeyes, > xclock, xterm, firefox all work! But not emacs. "emacs -nw" does work, and > emacs in its own Xwindow works if you're directly on the machine. However, > emacs will not open without the -nw option thru ssh. (Even though it did > while the machine was running for quite some time.) Restarting the machine > fixes the problem. > > Has anyone ever seen this behavior? The emacs version is 21.3.1. Can you do "netstat -a" (look for listening ports in the 6000-6100 range) when the problem occurs ? Also, do "echo $DISPLAY". Try to run "naked" emacs - emacs -q , what happens ? Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D Better Safe Than Sorry