From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13751 invoked by alias); 13 Nov 2007 22:36:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 13743 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Nov 2007 22:36:24 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:36:23 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Is4LP-00016e-I0 for gdb@sources.redhat.com; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:34:55 +0000 Received: from i577bf06d.versanet.de ([87.123.240.109]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:34:55 +0000 Received: from Stephen.Berman by i577bf06d.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:34:55 +0000 To: gdb@sources.redhat.com From: Stephen Berman Subject: Re: GDB cannot access memory after Emacs abort Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:36:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87ejetdbkb.fsf@escher.local.home> References: <87r6j6rvn3.fsf@escher.local.home> <87hcjtllau.fsf@escher.local.home> <1194763094.16917.278.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20071111192237.GA11728@caradoc.them.org> <87hcjsgzea.fsf@escher.local.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-11/txt/msg00110.txt.bz2 On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:44:29 +0100 Andreas Schwab wrote: > Jim Blandy 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