Re: 24.4.1; Emacs hangs with Org mode when point is in LOGBOOK

[Fabrice Niessen <fni-news-TA4HMoP+1wHrZ44/DZwexQ@public.gmane.org>]

Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric-5ibeKGLO59aIK5dEoMBc7KxOck334EZe@public.gmane.org> writes:
>> Fabrice Niessen writes:
>
>>> On Windows 8, with Emacs 24.4.1 (from Dani) and Org mode version
>>> 8.3beta, I can very often freeze Emacs when clocking into a task, or
>>> when editing the timestamps found in the LOGBOOK drawer.
>>
>> I've gotten something looking like that from time to time (more often
>> in the early days of the Org caching mechanism), and sending SIGUSR2
>> to the frozen emacs would reveal that it was in the midst of
>> something flyspell-related.

I'm under Windows, though with Cygwin. Not sure if that procedure
works...

>> You don't appear to be running flyspell,

I didn't tell about Flyspell, but though, yes, I'm using it everywhere,
always.

>> but I'll guess that Org's timers are clashing with somebody else's
>> timers.  Not very helpful, I know.
>
> I just crashed
>
> ,----
> | GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.12.2)
> |  of 2014-06-11 on var-lib-archbuild-staging-x86_64-jgc
> `----
>
> again today while refiling an Org task, but I already reported this a
> few weeks ago to the Emacs maintainers and it seems I have a "stripped
> binary" that does not deliver useful backtrace info. I don't use
> flyspell and I'm on Archlinux.
>
> Not very helpful, I know.

Yes, the problem is how to collect traces that can help people
understand and fix the problem.

Best regards,
Fabrice

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Fabrice Niessen
Leuven, Belgium
http://www.pirilampo.org/