From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Suvayu Ali Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8760: 24.0.50; Cannot kill emacs after killing text to kill-ring Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 18:15:57 -0700 Message-ID: <20110530181557.400b96ba@kuru.homelinux.net> References: <20110530001251.7f00c4b9@bhishma.homelinux.net> <4DE40870.5060600@harpegolden.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306804634 20233 80.91.229.12 (31 May 2011 01:17:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 01:17:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan@debbugs.gnu.org, Chong Yidong , 8760@debbugs.gnu.org To: David De La Harpe Golden Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 31 03:17:09 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QRDZz-0005oq-O5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=FUatLY3oMF4xSE34NrCfdOl7gAjlc87VW48wVcI+DvJtd1TzeNeLsH6XVlUdle5YK/ fQGgYJeuCl4b02DezdZ1p5K+177Ly9JIwuAabCEXfPjJ72cw9mTI9lbVcxSzICKWkTBU EhHpv117Tajk40b4IwK7M/L4sKZzxWzFJlKAk= Original-Received: by 10.68.30.39 with SMTP id p7mr2229996pbh.34.1306804562700; Mon, 30 May 2011 18:16:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from kuru.homelinux.net (d142-58-122-143.burnaby.sfu.ca [142.58.122.143]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o2sm3267918pbj.65.2011.05.30.18.16.01 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 30 May 2011 18:16:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4DE40870.5060600@harpegolden.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.0; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 21:17:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:46826 Archived-At: Hello David, On Mon, 30 May 2011 22:13:20 +0100 David De La Harpe Golden wrote: > On 30/05/11 08:12, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > Hi Emacs developers, > > > > After I updated Emacs today, I found a very annoying bug. > > > > If I copy/kill something to the kill-ring, I can't exit emacs with > > 'C-x C-c'. Attempting to do so results in the following backtrace: > > > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Timed out waiting for reply > > from selection owner") kill-emacs() > > save-buffers-kill-emacs(nil) > > save-buffers-kill-terminal(nil) > > call-interactively(save-buffers-kill-terminal nil nil) > > > > *** What desktop environment do you use, if any? (KDE, GNOME, > XFCE, ...) (and what version?) > I use XFCE with the clipman plugin (its a clipboard manager). > Emacs was just expanded to communicate with a desktop environment's > clipboard manager if available, which allows things you copy to > persist on the clipboard after you exit emacs. > Yes I had noticed that over the last month or two. It was working very well until now. > However, in your case something is going wrong, it sounds like you > have a daemon around claiming to be a clipboard manager (because > emacs is trying to talk to it at all) but it's acting weird (emacs > getting a timeout trying to talk with it). > > I can simulate this failure by pausing (kill -STOP/-CONT) my desktop > environment's clipboard manager - that way, it looks like there's an > owner of the clipboard manager selection that is unresponsive. > I tried the same steps in a fresh XFCE session without clipman, I still get the same results. I am not very familiar with the internals of XFCE, not sure how the default XFCE clipboard is managed. > Arguably, emacs, if it's in the middle of exiting, could just carry > on exiting after the selection timeout period in case it fails to > interact with a present but uncommunicative clipboard manager, not > fail to exit. Then the worst that happens in case of a malfunctioning > desktop clipboard manager is a brief pause on exit (and of course a > failure to persist clipboard contents after exit, but, well, one > can't expect that to work if the desktop clipboard manager isn't > working). > That would be a reasonable behaviour. :) > > I am not subscribed to the dev list > > Please just be sure to keep the bug email address (8760@debbugs...) > in the to/cc list for this thread, then it gets archived by the bug > tracker. > Thanks for that tip, will keep that in mind from now. For some reason I did not get your or Stefan's response despite both of you CC'ing me. I downloaded your message from the bug tracker and am responding to it so the threading might be screwed up. Its probably a Gmail issue. Thanks, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.