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24.0.50; GNU Emacs with Xaw3d does not launch as X client

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Message #38 received at 7949 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
Cc: 7949 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7949: 24.0.50; GNU Emacs with Xaw3d does not launch as X
	client
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:59:38 +0100

2011-02-03 11:58, Peter Dyballa skrev:
>
> Am 01.02.2011 um 08:20 schrieb Jan Djärv:
>
>> This is supposing the error handler is invoked.
>
>
> Is the error handler invoked? If so, it does not seem to work. Xterm or xfd
> clearly say that the font cannot be loaded and quit. Why is GNU Emacs spinning
> around in something like an infinite loop?
>
> Jeremy Huddleston keeps saying:
>
>> Now the reason emacs is spinning is because it's not handling the error
>> correctly. It's calling XSync() from within its x_error_handler().
>

You said it still hanged when XSync was commented out.  So something else is 
wrong.  Did you read etc/DEBUG?

	Jan D.

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