On 12/6/2012 9:08 AM, Jonas J Linde wrote:
Hello!
And Ken Brown spoke unto the world. And said:
On 11/14/2012 11:07 AM, Rockefeller, Harry wrote:
Emacs often hangs when I save a buffer which is also tied to an svn repository.
When I run ps I see the emacs child process 'svn' <defunct>.
I just had a very similar situation while running ediffs. But this time emacs
hung up
with the child process 'diff' <defunct>.
When you say the buffer is tied to an svn repository, do you mean
you're using emacs as your commit editor as in the following report?
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-10/msg00375.html
That report is about how emacs crashes when hitting Ctrl-G. This report
is about how emacs doesn't crash but hangs apparently waiting for a
defunct child process.
I've recently (since a few weeks) started to experience this same
problem several times per day. The only option I have found is to send a
SIGKILL to emacs and start over.
Can you think of anything that's changed in the last few week?
It happens when running for example cleartool in a sub shell or when
saving files over ssh or scp with tramp. When doing a 'ps -ef' I always
find a <defunct> child process of emacs - eg.:
liejj 4968 7748 ? 14:30:47 /usr/bin/cygpath <defunct>
liejj 7748 1 pty1 11:33:32 /usr/bin/emacs-X11
or
liejj 5064 3976 pty1 10:10:20 /usr/bin/emacs-X11
liejj 2024 5064 pty11 10:28:56 /usr/bin/ssh
liejj 6300 5064 ? 11:30:58 /cygdrive/c/Program
Files/IBM/RationalSDLC/ClearCase/bin/cleartool <defunct>
If so, it's a bug in emacs-24.2 that has been fixed upstream for
emacs-24.3. If not, more details would be helpful.
I'll attach the cygcheck output. Is there anything else I should do?
Your cygcheck output shows multiple cygwin1.dlls in your path. The
first thing you should do is fix that.
If that doesn't solve the problem, please try the recently released
(test version) emacs-24.2.90-1. And be sue to read the release
announcement, because there have been some changes:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-12/msg00004.html
If that doesn't help either, try to come up with a simple recipe for
reproducing the problem that doesn't require the use of non-Cygwin
programs like cleartool.
Ken
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