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bug#4078: 23.1; Forcibly breaking 'emacsclient -c' X connections can cra
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
bug#4078: 23.1; Forcibly breaking 'emacsclient -c' X connections can crash emacs. |
Date: |
Sat, 8 Aug 2009 12:05:56 -0700 (PDT) |
Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Steps to reproduce:
> (1) Run 'emacs --daemon' or 'emacs -nw'
> (2) M-x server-start
> (3) Run 'emacsclient -c'
> (4) Run 'xkill' and click on the Emacs X window
> (5) Run 'emacsclient -c' again
>
> Expected behavior:
>
> Another emacs X window pops up.
>
> Observed behavior:
>
> * A window pops up, but remains blank and non-responsive.
> * The 'emacs -nw' window outputs an infinite stream of
> (process:11200): GLib-WARNING (recursed) **: g_main_context_prepare()
called recursively from within a source's check() or prepare() member
>
> At this point, 'emacsclient -t' still works properly, and killing the
> new '-c' session seems to usually stop the GLib spew.
>
>
> I captured a backtrace of emacs, interrupted while it was spewing that
> warning endlessly. I appear to have caught it while logging the error,
> so hopefully the stack is relevant. This is 100% reproducible for me,
> so I can happily provide other stack traces if they would be useful.
This is a long standing Gtk+ bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715
If you configure emacs using --with-x-toolkit=lucid this problem will
not happen.