Re: GDB cannot access memory after Emacs abort

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:44:29 +0100 Andreas Schwab
<schwabsuse.de> wrote:

> Jim Blandy <jimbcodesourcery.com>
writes:
>
>> Actually, these are legit X Windows behavior;
they're called 'server
>> grabs'.  They're supposed to be rare (for obvious
reasons), but if
>> Emacs died while it had the server grabbed, you'd
certainly not be
>> able to interact with the debugger in another
window.
>
> You can ungrab the server by typing XF86_Ungrab
(assigned to C-A-kp-/ by
> default).

I tried this after the desktop lock-up, but it did not
release the
desktop.  I also tried XF86_ClearGrab (C-A-kp-*) but this
also had no
effect.  Before these attempts I had confirmed with xev that
those were
the correct bindings for these commands.

Steve Berman