Re: trunk r116499: Improve dbus error handling; detect bus failure

[Michael Albinus]

Daniel Colascione <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks for coming up with that. I can only repro this problem with 
> dbus-debug turned on, but I think this issue is what Peter's been 
> hitting too. It's actually a core Emacs event loop bug that we never 
> noticed before due to checking read-event's return value and breaking 
> the loop early if it ever returns a dbus event.

Well, your shortened timeout in the loop has provoked this error at
least. That's worth the trouble :-)

> Can you try this patch?

Works for me. On one of my slower machines, I've run "emacs -Q" at least
10 times; the error didn't happen again.

So please install the patch.

Best regards, Michael.