From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: freeze up on Panther Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 10:21:02 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3FABD47E.6030906@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068238545 16610 80.91.224.253 (7 Nov 2003 20:55:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 20:55:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 07 21:55:43 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AIDdv-0005Ki-00 for ; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 21:55:43 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AIDdu-0004nh-00 for ; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 21:55:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AIEYZ-0003QF-1T for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 16:54:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AIE4O-0004k6-V5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 16:23:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AIDvD-0002FF-7s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 16:13:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AIBFQ-0006RB-DJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 13:22:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AIAHz-0001NJ-00 for ; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 18:20:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AIAHx-0001N2-00 for ; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 18:20:49 +0100 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AIAHx-000497-00 for ; Fri, 07 Nov 2003 18:20:49 +0100 Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17721 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17721 John Wiegley wrote: > I am dying to find the keystroke that causes this, so if anybody can > give me tips on what to do... > > There is some sequence of keystrokes, involving at least C-x C-n and > probably C-g and C-c. When I type them (whatever they are), Emacs is > completely frozen and must be killed from the Terminal. I know that > C-x and C-n are involved, because I usually see a message about "Goal > column not being activated" in the frozen Emacs. However, just > playing around with these control keys myself does not cause the > problem. Also, I only trigger this sequence 1-2 times a day, so it > is rare. My own attempts have not caused the hang. > > Debugging pointers? Start your Emacs session with `M-x open-dribble-file'. -- Kevin Rodgers