From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Leo Chang" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Weird emacs behavior Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:57:09 -0800 Message-ID: References: <200602011546.k11FkTwQ011347@beta.mvs.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138831228 27984 80.91.229.2 (1 Feb 2006 22:00:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 22:00:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 01 23:00:24 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4Pzx-0004ZY-LK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:58:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4Q31-0005id-Pb for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:01:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4O9M-0002CQ-Fs for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:00:20 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4O9I-0002AN-Nc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:00:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4O9G-00029Y-Lz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:00:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [68.142.200.254] (helo=smtp106.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F4O7y-0003Ni-If for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:58:54 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 50774 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2006 19:56:58 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO LeoLaptop) (lchang@clickshift.com@63.82.1.82 with login) by smtp106.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Feb 2006 19:56:58 -0000 Original-To: X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 Thread-Index: AcYnRqxihF6+K9U6QUqM8YEiftXiMwAIr3dQ In-Reply-To: <200602011546.k11FkTwQ011347@beta.mvs.co.il> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:14766 gmane.emacs.help:32953 Archived-At: Weirdly enough, this behavior went away when I tried it this morning (after a couple of days). Emacs is working again. I can't explain it at all. -----Original Message----- From: Ehud Karni [mailto:ehud@unix.mvs.co.il] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 7:46 AM To: lchang@clickshift.com Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Subject: Re: Weird emacs behavior [ resent, there was a mistake in the mailing list name ] On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:38:16 -0800, Leo Chang wrote: > > There is an unexplained behavior that we've seen on a few machines we have > with emacs. These are Redhat Enterprise Linux boxes that we usually ssh to. > Xforwarding works fine. All X apps including emacs work fine. Then, after > a long time (weeks or months), emacs stops appearing in its own window when > you ssh into the box. Instead, after a long wait, it croaks with something > like "Connection Lost to Xserver. localhost 10:0." > > At this point, you can open ALL X applications except for emacs. Xeyes, > xclock, xterm, firefox all work! But not emacs. "emacs -nw" does work, and > emacs in its own Xwindow works if you're directly on the machine. However, > emacs will not open without the -nw option thru ssh. (Even though it did > while the machine was running for quite some time.) Restarting the machine > fixes the problem. Can you do "netstat -a" (look for listening ports in the 6000-6100 range) when the problem occurs ? Also, do "echo $DISPLAY". Try to run "naked" emacs - emacs -q , what happens ? Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D Better Safe Than Sorry