firebird and xemacs locking up/crashing "in pairs"???

Palle Girgensohn girgen at pingpong.net
Thu Nov 27 17:15:18 PST 2003


I agree, they shouldn't be linked, but they do hang together. I'll see what 
hard facts I can come with in. Might take a while...

/Palle

--On torsdag, november 27, 2003 20.02.52 -0500 Joe Marcus Clarke 
<marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 19:21, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
>> Well, shutting off type-ahead-search (the single best feature of
>> firebird,  btw) does not really help. I cannot reproduce the core dump
>> as before, but  firebird and xemacs still lock up in pairs. Just had
>> this experience, and  firebird would work even though I killed all its
>> processes and restarted  the application! Firebird shoed up, but never
>> tried accessing any URLs.  Started mozilla instead, worked fine... Then
>> I realized that xemacs was  hung, killed it and bingo, firebird works
>> again. Is this also a known  problem?
>
> Not known to me.  Doesn't seem like the two could be linked.  AFAIK,
> they use different GUI toolkits.  Sine I'm a vim user, I doubt I'll be
> able to do any deep investigation of this.  Without more details, I'm
> not sure what to tell you.
>
> Joe
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Palle
>>
>> --On måndag, november 17, 2003 12.01.13 -0500 Joe Marcus Clarke
>> <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 04:10, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
>> >> Hi!
>> >>
>> >> We have a strange problem, probably related to gtk20, but I'm not
>> >> sure.
>> >>
>> >> The small problem is that Firebird locks up, and does not accept
>> >> keyboard  input. This can be fixed by minimizing and unminimizing the
>> >> firebird window.
>> >>
>> >> The more odd thing happens that sometimes, during these locks, xemacs
>> >> stops  working and locks up, and its window becomes blank. Sometimes,
>> >> waiting a  while fixes the problem, sometimes not, and kill -9 is the
>> >> only thing that  helps. Note that this always happen when firebird
>> >> locks up, and never at  any other occasion, so they definitely seem
>> >> coupled, somehow.
>> >>
>> >> The enclosed stack trace indicates an infinite recursion. Any ideas?
>> >
>> > Known issue.  Go to Tools->Options->Advanced, and disable Find as You
>> > Type.
>> >
>> > Joe
>> >
>> >>
>> >> /Palle
>> >>
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