GNU bug report logs - #36902
Emacs crashed under X11 suddenly

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: leo <devel <at> halloleo.hailmail.net>

Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2019 06:35:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, notabug

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 36902 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: leo <devel <at> halloleo.hailmail.net>
Cc: 36902 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36902: Emacs crashed under X11 suddenly
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:18:39 +0300

> From: leo <devel <at> halloleo.hailmail.net>
> Cc: 36902 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 19:35:23 +1000
> 
> Yes, I have sometimes trouble interrupted X sessions.
> 
> Sorry to hog you her on the bugs email, but is there a way to keep emacs 
> alive when the X session disappears? And then later, is it possible to 
> reconnect to that emacs session via a DISPLAY?

You could start Emacs as a daemon and close the frames when you make a
break, then X problems should not cause any harm, and you can restore
the frames later with emacsclient.

Otherwise, I don't think we can survive X problems which happen while
you actually type.
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