Re: keyboard is intermittently ignored

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Sam Steingold <address@hidden> writes:

  > emacs cvs head on amd64:
  > every now and then the keyboard is ignored for a while, then
  > everything is back to normal.
  > mouse works: I can select, paste, use menus (including undo), but the
  > keyboard is silently ignored: I can type into xterm (actually, gnome
  > terminal), thunderbird (like I am doing now), caps lock and num lock
  > work fine - but emacs does not respond to any keypresses (including
  > C-g 
  > and C-]). loadavg is 0.
  > I cannot figure out what triggers this behavior and why the keyboard
  > input resumes (usually, after a few minutes of inactivity).
  > I am running under gdb, so if you tell me where to look, we can
  > probably debug this problem together.

Not sure if this would help: but if you do not use gdb you can try to
strace emacs (i.e. strace -p EMACS_PID) at the time it gets stuck and
see if that shows if emacs is doing anything interesting at the time...