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and subject line closing bugs reported against ancient emacs versions
has caused the Debian Bug report #401915,
regarding emacs21: often hangs on startup
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Package: emacs21
Version: 21.4a+1-1
Severity: normal
For about a year I had been living with Emacs hanging on startup (with
a blank window) about every 1/20th time (just a guess). (This was
happening on at least 3 systems that I use.) Today I couldn't take it
any more and decided to look a little closer whether it's something in
my startup or in Emacs itself. Considering the harmless state I
reduced my .emacs to, I'd say it's the latter.
I made the following script to be able to reproduce it hanging:
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#!/bin/bash
for ((i = 0; i < 1000; i++)) ; do
# emacs -q -l ~/.emacs --kill ;
emacs --kill ;
done
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BTW, please note that running "emacs --kill" reproduces the hang (with
.emacs file contents to be described below), however, the commented
out "emacs -q -l ~/.emacs --kill" never ever produced a hang.
The contents of my .emacs file were originally quite lengthy, but in
the end got reduced to the following:
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(global-set-key "\^_" 'unset-mark)
(custom-set-faces
'(menu ((t (:background "gray40" :foreground "green")))))
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The hang is occuring within a few seconds (on the only system that
I've tried it on so far, it's a 3GHz P4). If I comment out the
global-set-key, the hang still happens eventually, within minutes,
usually. If I comment out the custom-set-faces, there would be no hang
(not in the first 1000 launches that is). The problem only exists when
under the X-Window system; adding -nw makes it go away.
Here is my guess. It's all timing related, some kind of race condition,
most likely. The commands that change the look of the Emacs frame
(color change for menubar, color change on fringes, font-lock colors,
taking off the toolbar (those where the kinds of customization
commands in my original .emacs)) cause it to hang if they happen at
some unfortunate time moment. Hitting or not hitting this time moment
is influenced by what else the .emacs file asks Emacs to do before it
gets to these customization commands. Somehow, this particular
global-set-key command makes it really likely that the face-change
comes at a bad moment (and strangely my other global-set-key commands
didn't have quite the same influence, at least it seemed that way).
Please, somebody fix this annoying bug.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.11
Locale: LANG=lv_LV.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=lv_LV.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages emacs21 depends on:
ii emacs21-bin-common 21.4a+1-1 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-7 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libtiff4 3.8.2-6 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii libungif4g 4.1.4-4 shared library for GIF images
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-3 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.5-2 X11 pixmap library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-14 Xaw3d widget set
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
emacs21 recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
This bug has been reported against an ancient version of emacs (emacs21,
emacs22) that is no longer supported. It is assumed to be fixed (or no
longer relevant) in newer releases and therefore I'm closing this report
now. If the problem is still reproducible in the current version
(emacs24), feel free to provide more information and reopen this bug report.
Andreas
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