Bug 125823

Summary:	emacs 21 hangs gnome desktop when using pulldown menus
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Guillaume Guénard <guillaume.guenard>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Emacs project <emacs>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Highest
Version:	2005.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Guillaume Guénard 2006-03-11 05:44:01 UTC

Greeting,

I experienced some problems when using GNU-Emacs.

Description :
GNU-Emacs hangs the whole GNOME desktop on some occasions. It usually happens after saving a buffer to a file, either voluntary or by an auto-save event. Killing Emacs doesn't solve the hangup problem. I had to restart x11.

Version: GNU-Emacs 21.4.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, Motif Version 2.2.3)

Reproductibility : almost always

My system configuration

Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon -pipe -O2"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -pipe -O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml idn imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xml xml2 xmms xv zlib video_cards_rage128 userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Thank you.

Comment 1 Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-04-26 10:32:33 UTC

If you must have an Emacs built with Motif, try putting lesstif in USE.  It has been said that openmotif w/ emacs can cause problems with GNOME.