Re: [STUMP] Re: Lisp crashes with stumpwm

[Julian Stecklina]

Milan Zamazal <address@hidden> writes:

> Some news about the old problem of SBCL crashes and freezes with StumpWM
> when using mode line (i.e. multiple timers): I can run StumpWM on
> standard Debian SBCL happily now with my custom mode line utilizing
> several timers for its updates.
>
> The infamous "Recursive lock attempt" was claimed to be fixed in SBCL
> 1.0.16 and apparently it indeed is.  The only remaining problem is that
> if using run-shell-command in the timers then StumpWM hangs about once
> or twice per day, with both the threaded and non-threaded SBCL versions.
> No error message, no backtrace, no way to handle windows and SBCL has to
> be killed from another terminal.  Well, the obvious work around is not
> to use run-shell-command which is possible in most cases.

Could you post this to the SBCL people? Perhaps you can build a minimal
example outside of stumpwm. I guess, it would be quite helpful in
solving this problem.

Regards,
-- 
Julian Stecklina

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