bug#61940: 29.0.60; Occasional crash when moving point continously with visual line numbers

[Simon Pugnet]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > This again says that Emacs is trying to read input via XIM.  Maybe 
> > Po
> > Lu could help us understand what could be going on.
>
> Thanks.  Would you please verify that the loop does not involve 
> Emacs
> calling xic_set_preeditarea over and over again?  IOW, break on the 
> line
> after 3176 in xfns.c, and see if that breakpoint is ever hit?
>
> Otherwise, I suggest looking in your system logs for crashes 
> involving
> the input method framework you are using.  Xlib does not know how to
> handle IM server crashes, and will either crash trying to access a
> nonexistent window or loop waiting for events from the crashed IM
> server, which is what I think it's doing here.

Good call, it looks like this is exactly what's happening. Please see 
my other reply for details of an IBus crash.

Kind regards,

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Simon Pugnet
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