From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Keyboard goes dead Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:50:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87pqr65cgn.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297637459 16529 80.91.229.12 (13 Feb 2011 22:50:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:50:59 +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 13 23:50:55 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 1PokmL-0007WF-Ql for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:50:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47781 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PokmL-0003fV-9Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:50:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60789 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Poklx-0003eH-L2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:50:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Poklw-0000ka-ED for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:50:29 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:58272) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Poklw-0000kM-5L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:50:28 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Poklp-0007Ii-Q1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:50:21 +0100 Original-Received: from 75-17-109-153.lightspeed.nrwlct.sbcglobal.net ([75.17.109.153]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:50:21 +0100 Original-Received: from kgold by 75-17-109-153.lightspeed.nrwlct.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:50:21 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-17-109-153.lightspeed.nrwlct.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Red Hat/3.1.7-3.el6_0 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: <87pqr65cgn.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:79111 Archived-At: On 02/05/2011 05:43 PM, Tim X wrote: > 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. 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?