Re: address@hidden: make-frame-on-display crash]

[Jan Djärv]

Richard Stallman skrev:
> Would someone please fix this and ack?
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> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:43:35 +0300
> From: "Antonis Antoniadis" <address@hidden>
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> Hello,
> 
> When i use make-frame-on-display, to have an emacs frame on each of my (2)
> displays, after a while usually i have some weird display problems:
> The cursor has a character "inside it" and whenever i hit space, that
> character gets temporary printed instead of a space on the buffer.
> Then after some time (could be some minutes, or hours) emacs crashes. I also
> want to mention that with emacs 21.3 i didn't have that problem.
> 
> Now, I don't have any gdb output, couldn't get some, but i think i can
> reproduce an at least simmilar crash (i think it's the same reason though).
> So I have two displays, :0.0 and :0.1, and if i do the following i get emacs
> to a crash:
> 1. start an emacs on :0.0
> 2. hit M-x make-frame-on-display :0.1 to create a frame on the other display
> 3. hit C-x 5 0 to delete the frame on display :0.0
> 4. change focus to emacs on display :0.1
> 5. hit M-x make-frame-on-display :0.0 to make a frame on the other
> display... and emacs crashes!!!
> 

I can't reåroduce this.  Please try to get a backtrace in the debugger when
the crash happens.

        Jan D.