GNU bug report logs - #42152
26.3; Stuck on saving "Clipboard to x clipboard Manager"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sarthak Adhikari <adhikari.sarthak <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 14:50:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: unreproducible

Found in version 26.3

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #15 received at 42152-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Sarthak Adhikari <adhikari.sarthak <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 42152-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#42152: 26.3;
 Stuck on saving "Clipboard to x clipboard Manager"
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 01:39:33 +0000
Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

> Sarthak Adhikari <adhikari.sarthak <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> In the emacs -Q window, I did the following:
>> 1) Type the text "asd"
>> 2) C-a to set the marker at the first character
>> 3) C-e  to set the marker till the last character
>> 4) C-w to kill the region
>> 5) C-x C-c to exit emacs
>>
>> After performing step 5, my emacs editor displays "Saving clipboard to X Clipboard manager..." and stops responding. I have to
>> manually perform a "kill -9" from the terminal to quit emacs if it stops responding this way.
>>
>> My init.el only has one entry:
>> (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
>>
>> Killing text from emacs and pasting in on other applications(for eg: Chrome) works fine. The problem only occurs when I try to exit
>> emacs and the problem only occurs on those sessions in which I had killed text from within emacs.
>
> I'm unable to reproduce this here.
>
> It sounds strange to me that no one else have seen such a major bug in
> such basic functionality.  Could there be something peculiar in your
> setup that is causing this?

More information was requested, but none was given within 9 weeks, so
I'm closing this bug.

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