From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Strange looping Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:28:52 +0300 Message-ID: <83y6g5wj17.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272609031 5542 80.91.229.12 (30 Apr 2010 06:30:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:30:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 30 08:30:30 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O7jk4-0007Zg-7v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:30:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44032 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O7jk2-0001QU-7c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:30:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O7jju-0001QD-FE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:30:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44514 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O7jjZ-0001J1-RN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:30:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O7jjE-0003EM-AA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:29:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:41014) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O7jjB-0003Dh-Aj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:29:33 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L1O00F00FBYAZ00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:28:54 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.59.39]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L1O00CXTFC2MK90@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:28:51 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.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:124342 Archived-At: > From: Lennart Borgman > Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:02:37 +0200 > > I have experience some strange looping in Emacs recently. I have > difficulties catching them, but with a recent build I was able to use > Emacs to see what happened. > > I found no reason. I killed all visible buffers, but Emacs still > loops. There are no processes that I can see. I did not see anything > really suspect - except for an arg out or range during fontification. > > I think I have seen the same problem with builds from 2010-03-21 and > 2010-04-27. (This are my patched builds, though.) > > Anyone has any good idea of how to catch this? When that happens, attach GDB to the runaway Emacs, and then use the procedure described in etc/DEBUG under "If the symptom of the bug is that Emacs fails to respond", to find out where it is looping.