Emacs23 "freeze" on some conditions.

[Ricardo Aguiar]

Binary package hint: emacs23

Emacs23 freezes on some conditions. To "unfreeze" it I need to mouse click
on some item on menubar. The following procedure seems to show the bug:

- Open Emacs23
- Open some text files (the bug showed when I was editing some C source
code files).
- Open a terminal.
- Login as root (sudo su -).
- Exit the root account.
- Change with the mouse to Emacs23.

On my system the keyboard gets irresponsive, Ctrl-g does not work, and the
keyboard causes no response. Even the cursor does not blink.

If you go with the mouse pointer to a menu, and click to open it, Emacs begin
to respond again.

I think it is some weird interaction between GTK and Gnome. But as I never
programmed hard any of this I really don't know.

Thanks in advance.

Ric.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: emacs23 23.1+1-4ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jun 17 19:47:09 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en
 LANG=pt_BR.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: emacs23

[Eddy Pronk (epronk)]

If I build Emacs 23.1 from source (without the Debian patches) it does not have this problem.