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Re: GNU Emacs/GLib filling up ~/.xsession-errors with 42GB of warnings
From: |
Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
Re: GNU Emacs/GLib filling up ~/.xsession-errors with 42GB of warnings |
Date: |
Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:08:51 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Adam Sjøgren) writes:
> This just happened to me again: GNU Emacs¹ filled up my root-partition
> by writing 42GB of copies of this line:
>
> (emacs-snapshot-gtk:6008): GLib-WARNING **: g_main_context_check() called
> recursively from within a source's check() or prepare() member.
Hmm, previously this bug was a nuisance, but filling users' hard disks
is a serious problem.
Given this, I think it's best not to try to be too clever in handling
the loss of X connections. I've just checked in a patch that kills GTK
Emacs when that happens.