Subject: Re: bug#11330: 24.1.50; Infloop deleting overlays in the minibuffer

From: Nix <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:06:22 +0000

On 5 Nov 2012, Chong Yidong stated:

> Nix <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> With trunk emacs, I see a hang using the minibuffer after only a few
>> minutes of use, sometimes less.
>>
>> "read-from-minibuffer" (0xb4ebdfd8)
>> "completing-read-default" (0xb4ebe148)
>> "read-buffer" (0xb4ebe2d8)
>> "persp-read-buffer" (0xb4ebe4a8)
>> "call-interactively" (0xb4ebe718)
>>
>> Note that perspectives.el is not implicated here: control never returns
>> from delete_all_overlays(), and the value of `overlay' in the
>> overlays_before loop never changes. Inside Fdelete_overlay(),
>> Fmarker_buffer (OVERLAY_START (overlay)) is consistently returning Qnil,
>> so it never actually deletes anything and the deletion loop never
>> terminates.
>
> Do you still this problem?  If so, any luck debugging it, or a
> reproducible recipe?

No, this bug is long gone, thank goodness. Please close.

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