Re: Keyboard goes dead

[Ken Goldman <kgold@watson.ibm.com>]

On 02/05/2011 05:43 PM, Tim X wrote:
> Ken Goldman<kgold@watson.ibm.com>  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.

I did as you recommended, but it didn't help.  C-g didn't enter the 
debugger.  I assume that's because emacs isn't processing the C-g or any 
other keyboard character.

Other ideas?