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23.1.90; If dbus session bus is not available, emacs is busily trying to contact it

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Michael Albinus  <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 5283 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Köhler <andi5.py <at> gmx.net>
Subject: Re: bug#5283: 23.1.90;
	If dbus session bus is not available, emacs is busily trying to
	contact it
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:33:28 -0500

> Initially, I observed that emacs-snapshot from ubuntu karmic in a
> dtach session as server starts using 100% of the cpu when i logged
> out. It seemed to be trying to contact the dbus session bus all the
> time, even after I logged in again.
>
> I tried to track this down a bit further, so now the info is:
>
> - emacs built from the git repo (9a339f5), with dbus support
> - log in
> - emacs -Q --daemon --eval "(require 'tramp)"
> - log out
>
> -> emacs is eating the whole cpu, but also growing with about 100 MB
> per second of resident memory. As I needed to kill it very quickly, I
> am not sure whether the dbus_bus_get calls are still the root cause of
> the problem.

Hmm, I can't seem to reproduce this.  Michael, can you?

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