GNU bug report logs - #56792
29.0.50; Emacs crashes when selecting text if xfreerdp is also running

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: David Welch <davidwelch158 <at> hotmail.com>

Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.50

Done: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
 editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>, 56792-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 David Welch <davidwelch158 <at> hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#56792: 29.0.50; Emacs crashes when selecting text if
 xfreerdp is also running
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 11:45:33 +0200

Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:

> The PGTK build does not support X11, so you should build without PGTK
> enabled.  This crash is known to happen there, and will not be fixed,
> since adding 300-400 lines of X specific selection code to the PGTK port
> seems very irrational for a platform that it is not intended to support.

Emacs shouldn't segfault, though.  It's fine to signal an error in this
situation, but segfaulting is not.
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