[STUMP] Re: stumpwm goes into an infinite loop

[Nico de Jager]

Vasanth Kumar <address@hidden> writes:

>>> Every so often, stumpwm will stop responding to its attention key
>>> combination, the mode line will cease updating, and top will show the
>>> stumpwm-running sbcl process using all the available CPU.  Mouse clicks
>>> will not register in any application, although keyboard events will go to
>>> whichever application was focused at the time the problem occurred.  My
>>> guess, based on the symptoms, is that stumpwm is getting into an infinite
>>> loop somehow.  I'd like to figure out how that's happening.  (I suspect
>>> the root cause is either something to do with my mode line setup or
>>> something firefox is doing; aside from running xterms, those are the only
>>> real commonalities among the various computers.)
>
> Exactly the same happens to me as well - all the time - with a frequency
> of roughly one crash per hour. And, it is not firefox to blame. Often,
> stumpwm "freezes" with just one urxvt window running.
>
> I've been logging the stumpwm output for sometime now (with the
> *debug-level* set to 10), and I haven't been able to notice any pattern
> to figure out what is going wrong.
>
> My guess is that it is something to do with the modeline. But all I have
> setup to show on the modeline is a list of groups, and a time display.
>
> Just for the record, I run Gentoo, with X11 1.3, dual-headed on an intel
> chipset. I have no other desktop managers or anything. I use SBCL
> 1.0.14.

I had the same problem with earlier versions of SBCL. Versions 1.0.23
and higher (self compiled with multi-threading) have given me uptimes
of more than a month, though (on Debian Stable). SBCL had (have?) some
multi-threading issues.

Nico