RE: emacs child process goes defunct

2012-12-06 Thread Rockefeller, Harry
'Emacs -Q' failed after a few minutes of doing svn file diffs. I ran gdb on the hung process. I am not too familiar with this kind of debugging. Let me know if there is more I can give next time this happens. Here is some output. ps PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMM

Re: emacs child process goes defunct

2012-12-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/6/2012 5:20 PM, Rockefeller, Harry wrote: 'Emacs -Q' failed after a few minutes of doing svn file diffs. Can you give me a detailed step-by-step recipe so that I can try to reproduce the problem? I don't really know what you mean by "doing svn file diffs". I ran gdb on the hung proc

Re: emacs child process goes defunct

2012-12-07 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/6/2012 10:42 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/6/2012 5:20 PM, Rockefeller, Harry wrote: 'Emacs -Q' failed after a few minutes of doing svn file diffs. Can you give me a detailed step-by-step recipe so that I can try to reproduce the problem? I don't really know what you mean by "doing svn fil

Re: emacs child process goes defunct

2012-12-12 Thread Jonas J Linde
And Ken Brown spoke unto the world. And said: >One other question: Both you and Jonas Linde have said that emacs >"hangs". Do you see the CPU usage increasing when this happens? If >so, that would suggest an infinite loop. At least in my case the CPU usage didn't increase. But as I said in the

Re: emacs child process goes defunct

2012-12-12 Thread Achim Gratz
Jonas J Linde writes: > I saw in some other thread that there was a problem when emacs tries to > use dbus and it isn't started in advance. The new emacs seems to handle > that a bit differently. That discussion went a bit further on emacs-bugs. To summarize: It turned out that dbus was a red her