From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Zombie subprocesses (again) Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 01:50:04 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <51A07B3C.6020502@cs.ucla.edu> References: <8761y7ss7z.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369471825 21962 80.91.229.3 (25 May 2013 08:50:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 08:50:25 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs Development Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 25 10:50:25 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UgABD-0001z5-Ha for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 10:50:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47833 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UgABD-0002m5-0s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 04:50:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55478) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UgABA-0002lx-15 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 04:50:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UgAB4-0001Fz-EO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 04:50:19 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:54209) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UgAB4-0001B9-8S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 04:50:14 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89ABAA60027 for ; Sat, 25 May 2013 01:50:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Q6Oaa7SIqTZq for ; Sat, 25 May 2013 01:50:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-71-108-49-126.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.108.49.126]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7E7BEA60019 for ; Sat, 25 May 2013 01:50:04 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 In-Reply-To: <8761y7ss7z.fsf@web.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:159793 Archived-At: I can reproduce the problem on Ubuntu 13.04. Apparently when you start up a GTK Emacs session that can't talk to dbus (because it's su'ed), the dbus library starts up its own service, using dbus-launch. This messes up Emacs somehow (I don't know why). It's probably worth filing a new bug report for this. A possible workaround is to launch your own dbus service before invoking Emacs, though I haven't tried this.