bug#9723: 24.0.50; Emacs Clipboard crash

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Joseph Jones <josejones@expedia.com>
> CC: "9723@debbugs.gnu.org" <9723@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:06:51 -0800
> 
> Another data point with this build:
> 
> 1) In GUI mode (I think mostly when connected over RDP), eventually Emacs 
> will lock up using 12.5% CPU and not even running it under GDB will  let me 
> break into the process to see what is up.

If you run it not under GDB, then attaching GDB to it ("gdb -p PID",
where PID is the process ID of the running Emacs) should interrupt
whatever it is doing and let you examine the call-stack backtrace.
Are you saying that this is not working?

Anyway, can it be that you have C source files loaded in that Emacs,
and you have JIT stealth font-lock enabled?  There are some problems
in C mode in that area at the moment (I had similar lockups myself),
so perhaps this is what you are hitting.

> 24 is almost useless for me right now, at least when working remotely (which 
> I have to do to connected to some of my machines). It would suck to have to 
> abandon Emacs on Windows. I have NEVER had Emacs crash on any other platform 
> in almost 20 years of usage (really lucky I guess) but the last 5 months have 
> seen it almost unusable. :-(

I'm sorry for your trouble.  I can only say that no one else reported
anything similar for this version.  You can always go back to Emacs 23
if you find this unbearable.