From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: keyboard is intermittently ignored Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:09:04 -0700 Message-ID: <200807231809.m6NI940J016806@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <488750AB.2000102@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216836800 10213 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2008 18:13:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:13:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sam Steingold Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 23 20:14:08 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KLiqj-0006BF-Ib for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:14:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53565 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLipo-0001pj-QR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:13:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLioj-0001I6-7v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:12:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLioi-0001HW-6i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:12:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59338 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLioh-0001HT-TN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:11:59 -0400 Original-Received: from sallyv1.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.109]:44377) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLioc-0002iP-5l; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:11:54 -0400 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1217441346.17201@FcUtWnp7aLWkkWQmxJGf4w Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv1.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m6NI940J016806; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:09:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <488750AB.2000102@gnu.org> (Sam Steingold's message of "Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:39:23 -0400") Original-Lines: 19 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:101322 Archived-At: Sam Steingold writes: > emacs cvs head on amd64: > every now and then the keyboard is ignored for a while, then > everything is back to normal. > mouse works: I can select, paste, use menus (including undo), but the > keyboard is silently ignored: I can type into xterm (actually, gnome > terminal), thunderbird (like I am doing now), caps lock and num lock > work fine - but emacs does not respond to any keypresses (including > C-g > and C-]). loadavg is 0. > I cannot figure out what triggers this behavior and why the keyboard > input resumes (usually, after a few minutes of inactivity). > I am running under gdb, so if you tell me where to look, we can > probably debug this problem together. Not sure if this would help: but if you do not use gdb you can try to strace emacs (i.e. strace -p EMACS_PID) at the time it gets stuck and see if that shows if emacs is doing anything interesting at the time...