Public bug reported: I routinely copy text from other applications such as Chromium and Ctrl-Y to paste into Emacs. This worked fine as of Xubuntu 15.04. After upgrading to 15.10 (emacs24 24.5+1-1ubuntu2), the yank operation frequently hangs, freezing Emacs for perhaps a minute, not interruptible with Ctrl-G. Eventually it recovers (but pastes something other than the current clipboard contents). Once the problem starts happening, I cannot paste into my Emacs window without a hang, making it a blocker for routine usage.
I found http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16737 which linked to https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-07/msg00106.html from which I found http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=a27ae9d7650a1230d4359eaf0a949f827315a6d2 that seems to be a backport to Emacs 24. Please make sure Ubuntu picks up this fix. ** Affects: emacs24 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: clipboard hang -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to emacs24 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1514885 Title: Emacs hangs upon yank from X clipboard Status in emacs24 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I routinely copy text from other applications such as Chromium and Ctrl-Y to paste into Emacs. This worked fine as of Xubuntu 15.04. After upgrading to 15.10 (emacs24 24.5+1-1ubuntu2), the yank operation frequently hangs, freezing Emacs for perhaps a minute, not interruptible with Ctrl-G. Eventually it recovers (but pastes something other than the current clipboard contents). Once the problem starts happening, I cannot paste into my Emacs window without a hang, making it a blocker for routine usage. I found http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16737 which linked to https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs- devel/2015-07/msg00106.html from which I found http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=a27ae9d7650a1230d4359eaf0a949f827315a6d2 that seems to be a backport to Emacs 24. Please make sure Ubuntu picks up this fix. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs24/+bug/1514885/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
