From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: help! Keep getting emacs locked up / not responding to c-g / having to kill process Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 07:20:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7fdcb6b5-5cea-45d7-9e47-107b66ab4a1b@default> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380810067 14233 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2013 14:21:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 14:21:07 +0000 (UTC) To: unfrostedpoptart , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 03 16:21:10 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1VRjm6-0007pY-7C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 16:21:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43530 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRjm5-0003WI-Q8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 10:21:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37729) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRjli-0003VE-Hp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 10:20:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRjlZ-0003Es-50 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 10:20:42 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:48747) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRjlY-0003El-U7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 10:20:33 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r93EKUfR016067 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 3 Oct 2013 14:20:31 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7021.oracle.com (aserz7021.oracle.com [141.146.126.230]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r93EKTas015006 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 3 Oct 2013 14:20:30 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt107.oracle.com (abhmt107.oracle.com [141.146.116.59]) by aserz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r93EKTQ4019187; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 14:20:29 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93813 Archived-At: > This is related to my previous post about clearing the kill ring. I have= a > frequent case, when running shell buffers, where selecting a lot of the > buffer (could be thousands of lines) seems to lock up emacs. Most of the > time, one or more c-g hits will stop what it was doing and give me back > control. However, lately (including 15 minutes ago) I've been hitting th= is > and c-g does nothing and ps shows emacs at around 95% cpu. As this is a > shared server, that doesn't make me popular with other users! >=20 > I end up having to kill the process. This really sucks since I had about = a > dozen shell buffers logged into multiple servers and running long jobs t= hat > were all killed when I killed emacs. >=20 > Any suggestions on stopping this from happening in the first place and/or > something stronger than c-g but short of killing emacs? >=20 > FYI, this is 24.3.something on REH 5.something. The suggestion I have is, as usual when nothing is said about the setup, try to reproduce the problem without your init file, i.e., starting from `emacs -Q'. If you can repro it that way then report the recipe here, asking for possible suggestions. Or if you think it is a bug, report it via `M-x report-emacs-bug'. If the problem does not occur when you start from `emacs -Q', then try to narrow down your init file, to see what causes the problem. Then post what you find here, if it's not obvious at that point how to fix it. You say that most of the time repeated C-g works, but sometimes it does not. Sounds like Emacs is in an infinite loop. For that too, I would first suspect code (loaded) from your init file. (Infinite loops in vanilla Emacs get reported and fixed very quickly.) IOW, a recipe please, or at least some more, and more concrete, info.