Re: 23.0.50; frozen frame after C-x 5 0

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

  >     Since the multi-tty merge I start emacs as a detached server in screen.
  >     Here's a command line to reproduce the problem:
  > 
  >       screen -d -m -S test emacs -nw --eval "(setq server-name \"test\")" \
  > 	     -Q --funcall server-start
  > 
  >     Now I connect to it with
  > 
  >       emacsclient -s test
  > 
  >     which opens a new X11 frame.  If I hit `C-x 5 0' to close this frame, it
  >     freezes.  Neither are redisplays performed in it nor does it doesn't
  >     close.  The menu bar is inaccessible, too.
  > 
  >     A subsequent
  > 
  >       emacsclient -s test
  > 
  >     closes the frozen frame and pops up a new one, which is displayed only
  >     for a fraction of a second before it vanishes, too.  So from this point
  >     clients with X11 frames are non-functional.
  > 
  > Can someone please DTRT and ack?

I can't reproduce this problem on my Fedora machine.

  > Tassilo, could you try debugging it with GDB?
  > You could see what C-x 5 0 actually does when you run it.
  > Why doesn't it delete the frame, as it should?