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Dear Bug Team!
I've noticing occasional deadlocks between XEmacs and the X server.
Every time I can remember it happending I've had gdb-mode running in a
buffer (though I'm usually not actively accessing that buffer). It
may be correlated with starting a second frame on that same process.
An strace of the running process shows it hanging on a select of the
unix socket that corresponds to the X server.
I've found this:
http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-patches/200212/msg00029.html
which seems related, but as you can tell by the data below I'm running
21.4.12 (which supposedly has things much better than before).
I'm very interested in having this problem fixed, but if there's a
workaround to break the deadlock, I'd love to hear about that, too.
Also, if there's reason to believe that 21.5.x is less prone to this
bug, I'd considering using that branch.
Finally, if you have instructions on how better to reproduce the old
bug, I'm happy to work with you to investigate further.
Thanks!
Greg
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System Info to help track down your bug:
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uname -a: Linux
porky.devel.redhat.com 2.4.20-2.48bigmem #1 SMP Thu Feb 13 11:31:10 EST
2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
./configure 'i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr'
'--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--datadir=/usr/share'
'--libdir=/usr/lib' '--mandir=/usr/share/man/man1'
'--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-gpm=no' '--with-sound=native'
'--with-pop' '--mail-locking=lockf' '--with-clash-detection'
'--debug=no' '--error-checking=none' '--with-mule=yes'
'--with-database=berkdb' '--with-ldap=yes' '--with-hesiod=no'
'--with-canna=yes' '--with-wnn=yes' '--with-widgets=motif'
'--with-menubars=lucid' '--with-scrollbars=lucid'
'--with-dialogs=motif' '--with-xim=xlib' '--with-msw=no'
'--with-xfs=yes' '--pdump'
XEmacs 21.4.12 "Portable Code" configured for `i386-redhat-linux'.
Compilation / Installation:
Source code location: /usr/src/build/225655-i386/BUILD/xemacs-21.4.12
Installation prefix: /usr
Operating system description file: `s/linux.h'
Machine description file: `m/intel386.h'
Compiler: gcc -O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -g
Relocating allocator for buffers: no
GNU version of malloc: yes
- Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.
Window System:
Compiling in support for the X window system:
- X Windows headers location: /usr/X11R6/include
- X Windows libraries location: /usr/X11R6/lib
- Handling WM_COMMAND properly.
Using Lucid menubars.
Using Lucid scrollbars.
Using Motif dialog boxes.
Using Motif native widgets.
TTY:
Compiling in support for ncurses.
Images:
Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin).
Compiling in support for XPM images.
Compiling in support for PNG images.
Compiling in support for JPEG images.
Compiling in support for TIFF images.
Sound:
Compiling in support for sound (native).
Databases:
Compiling in support for Berkeley database.
Compiling in support for LDAP.
Compiling in support for PostgreSQL.
- Using PostgreSQL header file: libpq-fe.h
- Using PostgreSQL V7 bindings.
Internationalization:
Compiling in support for Mule (multi-lingual Emacs).
Compiling in support for XIM (X11R5+ I18N input method).
- Using raw Xlib to provide XIM support.
- Using XFontSet to provide bilingual menubar.
Compiling in support for Canna on Mule.
Compiling in support for the WNN input method on Mule.
Mail:
Compiling in support for POP mail retrieval.
Compiling in support for "lockf" mail spool file locking method.
Other Features:
Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at startup.
Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules.
Using the new portable dumper.
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/usr/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/xemacs-base/timezone
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