Emacs hangs upon yank from X clipboard

[Jesse Glick]

I routinely copy text from other applications such as Chromium and Ctrl-Y to paste into Emacs. This worked fine as of Xubuntu 15.04. After upgrading to 15.10 (emacs24 24.5+1-1ubuntu2), the yank operation frequently hangs, freezing Emacs for perhaps a minute, not interruptible with Ctrl-G. Eventually it recovers (but pastes something other than the current clipboard contents). Once the problem starts happening, I cannot paste into my Emacs window without a hang, making it a blocker for routine usage.

I found http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16737 which linked to https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-07/msg00106.html from which I found http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=a27ae9d7650a1230d4359eaf0a949f827315a6d2 that seems to be a backport to Emacs 24. Please make sure Ubuntu picks up this fix.

[Jesse Glick (jesse-glick)]

Workaround for the hang is to just disable clipboard integration: M-x customize-variable x-select-enable-clipboard, toggle to off, set and save for future sessions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Gergely Daróczi (daroczig)]

Using `emacs-snapshot` from https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp/+archive/ubuntu/ppa seems to be a temporary workaround.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

fixed in 24.5+1-6ubuntu1