Subject: Re: bug#11724: 24.1; emacs freeze (full hang, ctrl+G or kill -15 do not help) on rope lucky assist

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:59:42 -0400

"Alex V. Koval" wrote:

> 1. Have installed rope, pymacs and ropemacs packages of current versions

Thanks for the report, but I'm afraid I'm not familiar with any of these
packages, which aren't part of Emacs. You might have more luck
contacting their maintainers.

> (require 'pymacs)
> (pymacs-load "ropemacs" "rope-")
>
> 3. Open pyton file. try to autocomplete on line 241 (remove part of
> False, like Fa and then call rope-lucky-assist.
>
> 4. Emacs is hang completely and does not react to Ctrl+G. It does
> tries to say that it will save and quite on trying kill -15, but then
> it still hangs.

It looks to be waiting for process output. This may not be an Emacs bug.

>  (gdb) xbacktrace 
> "accept-process-output" (0xffffa710)
[...]
> "pymacs-round-trip" (0xffffbdd0)

A brief search shows pymacs-timeout-at-start defaults to 30s.
Maybe it helps to lower this and related settings.
Again, a pymacs list may be of more help.