On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 10:38:14PM -0800, Michael Snyder
wrote:
> > > At this point my desktop (I tried in KDE,
GNOME and twm, same behavior
> > > in all) is totally locked up, but I can
switch to a virtual tty and
> > > there kill emacs with SIGKILL (kill -9);
SIGTERM (kill -15) does not do
> > > the job.
>
> Making sure that I understand -- you ran emacs under
gdb,
> you set a breakpoint at abort, you hit the breakpoint
--
> and your desktop is locked up?
>
> That seems unusual -- do you have any idea of the
cause?
This is pretty common when debugging X programs, IIRC. I
believe
there's some ways in which an application can
"own" a display while
something is in progress.
That's just from observation, I don't know much about X
programming.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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