bug#29661: 27.0.50; emacs crashing on exchange-point-and-mark

[Robert Marshall]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Robert Marshall <robert.marshall@codethink.co.uk>
>> Cc: rudalics@gmx.at,  29661@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 09:24:21 +0000
>> 
>> > Do you perhaps have some utility installed that attempts to manage the
>> > X clipboard and selections?  If so, can you disable it and see if the
>> > problem goes away?
>> >
>> > Basically, the question is why does X fail or close the connection
>> > with Emacs.
>> 
>> I'm running the standard kde desktop which comes with klipper. If I
>> stop klipper - at the moment! - I can no longer replicate the error
>> 
>> When running klipper from the command line and replicating the problem I
>> see
>> 
>> QClipboardWatcher::empty: Internal error: Application owns the selection
>
> Ah, in that case we have an entry in PROBLEMS about klipper.  Does
> upgrading to a newer version as indicated there solve the problem?  If
> not, perhaps we should update that entry with some new information.
>
I have 4.14.2 of kde, Klipper: 0.9.7

Which would appear to be newer than the entry in PROBLEMS - update
to say emacs may crash? And mention select-active-regions?

Robert