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bug#4970: 23.1; Emacs Gtk running nuts
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
bug#4970: 23.1; Emacs Gtk running nuts |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:11:19 -0800 (PST) |
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
> Dan Nicolaescu skrev:
> > Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> writes:
> >
> > > A user runs "emacs -nw" within xterm, and often stop them with CTRL-Z
to
> > > keep them in background. Now Emacs loops and hogs both memory and cpu
after
> > > shutting down X11 going to runlevel 3. Likely this was a leftover
emacs from
> > > background.
> > > > From top:
> > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+
> > COMMAND > 23902 xxxxxx 20 0 7222m 3.4g 608 R 100
> > 88.9 59:28.72 emacs-gtk
> >
> > I have seen this in the past, but only with the info above I was able to
> > find a reliable way to reproduce this.
> >
> > It also happens with the lucid toolkit, so it's not related to gtk.
> >
> >
> > Xnest :1&
> > xterm -display :1
> >
> > Now in that xterm window in Xnest do:
> > emacs -Q -nw
> > C-z
> >
> > kill the Xnest window
> >
> > and watch the emacs process grow in size.
> >
>
> What happens is that reading from the terminal fails and Emacs tries
> to remove that terminal, but in term.c:
>
> if (last_terminal)
> error ("Attempt to delete the sole terminal device with live frames");
>
>
> which goes back to the command loop, tries to read agan, fails, and
> tries to delete the terminal again, and so on.
>
> If you remove this check, Emacs exits. But I suppose it is there for
> a reason, but I don't know what. Anybody?
It's there so that if you do:
emacs -Q -nw
C-x 5 0
does not exit emacs.
- bug#4970: 23.1; Emacs Gtk running nuts, Werner Fink, 2009/11/19
- bug#4970: 23.1; Emacs Gtk running nuts, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/11/19
- bug#4970: 23.1; Emacs Gtk running nuts, Jan Djärv, 2009/11/20
- bug#4970: 23.1; Emacs Gtk running nuts,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- bug#4970: 23.1; Emacs Gtk running nuts, Jan Djärv, 2009/11/20
- bug#4970: 23.1; Emacs Gtk running nuts, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/11/20
- bug#4970: 23.1; Emacs Gtk running nuts, Jan Djärv, 2009/11/20
- bug#4970: 23.1; Emacs Gtk running nuts, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/11/20
- bug#4970: 23.1; Emacs Gtk running nuts, Jan Djärv, 2009/11/20
- bug#4970: 23.1; Emacs Gtk running nuts, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/11/20
bug#4970: marked as done (23.1; Emacs Gtk running nuts), Emacs bug Tracking System, 2009/11/25