From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
Cc: Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: GDB cannot access memory after Emacs abort
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071111192237.GA11728@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1194763094.16917.278.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-11 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-11-10 23:50 ` Stephen Berman
2007-11-11 6:46 ` Michael Snyder
2007-11-11 7:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-11 23:05 ` Stephen Berman
2007-11-12 4:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-12 5:24 ` Michael Snyder
2007-11-13 22:40 ` Stephen Berman
2007-11-13 23:20 ` Michael Snyder
2007-11-13 23:28 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-11-14 10:00 ` Stephen Berman
2007-11-13 23:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-11-11 19:22 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-11-11 23:10 ` Stephen Berman
2007-11-12 0:39 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-11-12 17:47 ` Jim Blandy
2007-11-12 19:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-11-13 22:36 ` Stephen Berman
2007-11-13 22:34 ` Stephen Berman
2007-11-13 23:14 ` Michael Snyder
2007-11-14 9:48 ` Stephen Berman
2007-11-13 23:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-11-12 7:39 ` Vladimir Prus
2007-11-13 22:36 ` Stephen Berman
2007-11-13 23:24 ` Michael Snyder
2007-11-14 9:50 ` Stephen Berman
2007-11-14 12:00 ` Michael Snyder
2007-11-14 19:24 ` Stephen Berman
2007-11-15 1:00 ` Michael Snyder
2007-11-11 23:01 ` Stephen Berman
2007-11-12 5:15 ` Michael Snyder
2007-11-14 9:55 ` Stephen Berman
2007-11-14 12:00 ` Michael Snyder
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