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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Christian Brechbühler" <brechbuehler@gmail.com>
Cc: 40734@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40734: 26.3; emacs becomes unresponsive after quitting ediff
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:09:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878sbyjo0p.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJLQA-4h9oVGErT_uAFCF3a7SCMMTUNEbKQnv2iD89PsD6x2Xg@mail.gmail.com> ("Christian Brechbühler"'s message of "Mon, 20 Apr 2020 11:39:33 -0400")

Christian Brechbühler <brechbuehler@gmail.com> writes:

>    Started Emacs from Ubuntu Applications, the icon with the white
>    calligraphic "E" in a purple circle.
>    I had two buffers open ("Alerts" and "config" from smokeping).
>    M-x ediff-buffers
>    n n n  (to advance to difference #3)
>    b      (copy content of buffer B into A)
>    q y    (quit ediff, confirm)
>
> After this, emacs is unresponsive.  This behavior is similar to
> bug#20175 and bug#21796, which are years old and
> merged/archived/wontfix.  The difference is that they only lost keyboard
> focus; for me mouse input doesn't work either.

Do you have a recipe to reproduce this bug starting from "emacs -Q"?

> To me it looks like thread 1 was handling a segmentation fault.  This is
> different from the older bugs.

Yes, it does look somewhat like a segfault, that is then (possibly)
being blocked by some other thread...

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-22 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-20 15:39 bug#40734: 26.3; emacs becomes unresponsive after quitting ediff Christian Brechbühler
2020-10-22 15:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-01-28  6:58   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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