Your message dated Thu, 23 Jan 2014 03:34:17 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: emacs21 freezes at random - closing has caused the Debian Bug report #259362, regarding emacs21: Random endless loops over gettimeofday and setitimer to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: emacs21 Version: 21.4a+1-5.4 Severity: normal About once a day (and I do not know how to reproduce it at will), Emacs starts an endless loop, not refreshing its screen and not accepting requests. kill is useless, I must kill -KILL, losing text :-( ps shows: stephane 11128 0.0 0.2 12176 7752 pts/7 S 10:26 0:00 emacs /home/stephane/Mail/compose/mutt-ludwigVII-1000-11103-1 --eval (setq backup-inhibited t) --funcall=post-mode --funcall=turn-on-auto-fill When it occurs, strace shows: --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- gettimeofday({1214382705, 259392}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1214382705, 259441}, NULL) = 0 setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 1000}}, NULL) = 0 sigreturn() = ? (mask now [IO]) futex(0xb7cd5140, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- gettimeofday({1214382705, 267439}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1214382705, 267487}, NULL) = 0 setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 1000}}, NULL) = 0 sigreturn() = ? (mask now [IO]) futex(0xb7cd5140, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- gettimeofday({1214382705, 275483}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1214382705, 275531}, NULL) = 0 setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 1000}}, NULL) = 0 sigreturn() = ? (mask now [IO]) futex(0xb7cd5140, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- gettimeofday({1214382705, 283531}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1214382705, 283579}, NULL) = 0 setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 1000}}, NULL) = 0 sigreturn() = ? (mask now [IO]) futex(0xb7cd5140, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- gettimeofday({1214382705, 291698}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1214382705, 291747}, NULL) = 0 setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 1000}}, NULL) = 0 sigreturn() = ? (mask now [IO]) I am not sure how to use gdb to report anything useful. If I attach gdb to emacs, all I get is: (gdb) where #0 0xb7fd1410 in ?? () #1 0xbf98b44c in ?? () #2 0x00000002 in ?? () #3 0x00000000 in ?? () [Tested as an X window only. It seems to appear only when run from mutt, the actual command line is in the ps output above.] I use the same setup for many years and the problem appeared only with lenny. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages emacs21 depends on: ii emacs21-bin-common 21.4a+1-5.4 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgif4 4.1.6-4 library for GIF images (library) ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libncurses5 5.6+20080308-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpng12-0 1.2.27-1 PNG library - runtime ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library ii libtiff4 3.8.2-10 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii libx11-6 2:1.1.4-2 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxmu6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxpm4 1:3.5.7-1 X11 pixmap library ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-15 Xaw3d widget set ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime emacs21 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Hi! I'm closing this bug, since it affected emacs21, and the current version is 23. If you still encounter this problem, please feel free to re-open it and move it to the appropriate package, or ask me to do it. Solveig
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