Fwd: Emacs stuck on VMware.

[Lennart Borgman]

I have seen this too. What I have also seen is that doing something
bad in font-lock can cause freezes. You can't even close Emacs.

This should of course never happen with a GUI app so there is some bug
here. I am not sure about how things are structured, but as I
understands it idle timers (where font locking is done) runs in the
command loop. Then the code doing the font locking or screen update
must yield to the GUI thread. I suppose it does not do that in some
parts of the code.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Andy Stewart <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: Emacs stuck on VMware.
To: address@hidden


Hi,
Kwanghoon Choi <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear All,
>
> I am using Emacs 22 GTK on VMware (where Ubuntu runs).
> It is typical of me to suspend VMware before I leave my work place and to 
> wake up it every morning.
>
> Sometimes, my emacs windows are found to get stuck showing only blank screens 
> when I wake up VMware.
> If this happens, I have to kill the emacs application process and to launch 
> it again.
>
> This cumbersome situation happens a few times for a month or so, but not 
> always.
>
> This kind of bug description might not good to get interests from you, but 
> this is all I can
> explain. Sigh.
> I am wondering if there is anybody has the same experience.
This not just happened in VMware, i run Emacs in Ubuntu linux (host OS).
It will freeze if i don't type anything long time.

This situation happens almost 1 times per 2 days.
I think it's something bug of elisp code.
Hope maintainer will test this bug.

elisp code is not stable enough when code is too large.

 -- Andy