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- From: rich@merl.com
- Subject: [young@icad.COM: Emacs 18.58 intermittent Find File hang?]
- Message-ID: <9212171352.AA27684@merl.com>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Organization: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:52:08 GMT
- Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- Does the information below help? Can this bug be fixed?
-
- Thanks, -Chuck.
-
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 16:39:22 EST
- From: young@icad.COM (Jonathan H. Young)
- To: rich@merl.com
- In-Reply-To: rich@merl.com's message of 8 Dec 92 04:50:47 GMT
- Subject: Emacs 18.58 intermittent Find File hang?
-
- From: rich@merl.com
- Date: 8 Dec 92 04:50:47 GMT
-
- Every few days, always when I have just hit the final <cr> after the
- file name argument to Find File (C-X C-f), my Emacs job freezes. It
- will not respond to any further keyboard or mouse input; I finally
- have to kill it (I have waiting as long as 15 minutes to see if it
- will unfreeze itself, but it doesn't). The rest of the environment on
- the workstation works fine. If I try to read the same file from the
- shell or find the same file again with a new copy of Emacs, it works
- fine.
-
- The last two times this happened the file name I typed happened
- to begin with a tilda (e.g., ~someuser/foo.bar). I don't know if
- this is a pattern or not.
-
- I realize that this could be a problem with NFS or any number of
- other things, but Emacs seems to be the only program showing
- a problem of this kind right now.
-
- Howdy, neighbor!
-
- I believe this is the same problem I have seen, but I don't know of a
- fix yet. We run 18.58 on many machines, but I have only observed the
- problem on Sun 4s (Sparcstations, IPXs, etc) *after a YP server
- crash*, after typing ~<user>/filename. The problem arises in the YP
- library user lookup code -- someone is passing in a NULL pointer and
- the library loops.
-
- My advice is to expect emacs to be flaky after a YP server crash.
-
- --- Jonathan
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