bug#15561: periodic timer stops running

[Peter Münster]

Hi,

It happened again: 2 periodic timers have stopped running.


On Wed, Mar 12 2014, Barry OReilly wrote:

> After the timers stop, do they start up again when you 'kill -s ALRM'
> the Emacs process?

No.


> Maybe you could put a print statement in the handle_alarm_signal
> function to confirm you get the signal.

Emacs goes into the handle_alarm_signal function when sending the
signal.


> If you do, then perhaps start debugging at the do_pending_atimers
> function.

I've tried, but I don't really know, where to look...

Here the value of my timer-list:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Value: ([t 21335 18354 590042 20 org-notify-process nil nil 953248]
 [t 21335 20714 647433 9000 gnus-demon-run-callback
    (pm/rescan-news 900 9000)
    nil 138000]
 [nil 21336 7511 917609 300 savehist-autosave nil nil 848940]
 [nil 21336 7547 595349 300 gnus-demon-run-callback
      (gnus-group-save-newsrc 120 300)
      nil 925000]
 [nil 21336 7547 880984 60 pm/newmail-update nil nil 696000]
 [nil 21336 7641 823147 900 gnus-demon-run-callback
      (pm/btc-checker 60 900)
      nil 609000]
 [nil 21336 7727 644172 420 gnus-demon-run-callback
      (gnus-delay-send-queue 180 420)
      nil 412000]
 [nil 21336 7947 507382 3600 url-cookie-write-file nil nil 982000]
 [nil 21336 10875 981456 nil password-cache-remove
      ("auth-source-magic (:max 1 :host (\"news.gmane.org\" \"news.gmane.org\") 
:port (\"119\" \"nntp\" \"nntp\" \"563\" \"nntps\" \"snews\"))")
      nil 731000]
 [nil 21336 13307 647529 6000 gnus-demon-run-callback
      (pm/check-mail 180 6000)
      nil 832000])
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

What does the first entry in the vector mean (t or nil)? The 2 first
entries have stopped.

What could I do to debug this?

TIA for any hints,
-- 
           Peter