GNU bug report logs - #45041
27.1; Emacs hangs if the cited message contains some specific text

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Pratyush Yadav <pratiy0100 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 11:56:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, moreinfo

Found in version 27.1

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 45041 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Pratyush Yadav <pratiy0100 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 45041 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Pratyush Yadav <me <at> yadavpratyush.com>
Subject: Re: bug#45041: 27.1; Emacs hangs if the cited message contains some
 specific text
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2020 15:47:03 +0100

Pratyush Yadav <pratiy0100 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I use Gnus to read from the NNTP server over at nntp.lore.kernel.org on
> the group org.kernel.vger.git. When I opened one particular message on
> the group today Emacs froze up completely. top reported 100% CPU usage
> from it. This went on for a couple minutes until I hit C-g. The message
> that triggered this has Message-id
> <CAN05THQGqV4hP218hb3QXjJhQbbBCDRHgf=PAty=Ydd78a679A <at> mail.gmail.com>
> and subject "Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Outreachy] Internship blog 2020"

I'm unable to reproduce this problem, so I'm guessing it's something in
your settings that's triggering it?

Try

(setq debug-on-quit t)

and then post the resulting backtrace when you hit `C-g'.  That should
tell us what's triggering this.

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