From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Keyboard goes dead Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:43:52 +1100 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com Message-ID: <87pqr65cgn.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296949259 29405 80.91.229.12 (5 Feb 2011 23:40:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 23:40:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 06 00:40:55 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1PlrkM-0003Xp-3q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:40:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47244 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PlrkL-0002xu-GG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 18:40:53 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.isc.org!news.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border6.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qZkD6scH7MDzfZNyToeKIxwc1ys= Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: a9db45f6.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=RAbJKC_QMhm\; 1IogBA]HfL?0kYOcDh@jW\:Hm@YlDbj6THGRV1fCZdDJS>h4_nHTf; ^__Ba5ITbh Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:184825 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78980 Archived-At: Ken Goldman writes: > 23.1.1 on Linux x86, 64bit > > Has anyone seen this: > > About once a day, the keyboard becomes inactive within emacs. The mouse works, > and the keyboard works outside emacs. > > It seems to happen right after I do a grep or compile and try to do a > next-error. > > Sometimes, I can recover by hitting return in the compile or grep window. When > I do that, the messages window appears, and anything that I typed in the other > windows is processed. > > Other times, I have to kill emacs. > > Ctrl-G doesn't have any effect, nor does ESC-ESC-ESC. > > Any clues? Anything to try? > > No cannot think of what it might be and I don't see this behavior. However, you could try enabling "enter debugger on quit" in the options menu and see if hitting C-g gies you a backtrace next time this occurs - may narrow down the possible cause or give you something to work with. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au