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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Subject: Re: still seeing semi-regular lockups
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Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Eric,
>
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> I think the advice here was also to run Org uncompiled, as that produces
>> a more useful backtrace, is that right?
>
> Yes, that's right -- generally, backtraces from compiled Org are
> mungled, while backtraces from an uncompiled Org are readable.
>
>> A couple of times I've gotten
>> SIGUSR2 to knock emacs out of a lock, but it was only while I was
>> running a compiled org. The one time I was running uncompiled and got a
>> lock, even SIGUSR2 couldn't bring it back...
>
> Yes, compilation does not affect whether or not you can escape a lock.

Right, I didn't mean to imply that, just that SIGUSR2 doesn't always
bring it back from the dead...