Hello!
And Ken Brown spoke unto the world. And said:
On 11/14/2012 11:07 AM, Rockefeller, Harry wrote:
Emacs often hangs when I save a buffer which is also tied to an svn repository.
When I run ps I see the emacs child process 'svn' <defunct>.
I just had a very similar situation while running ediffs. But this time emacs hung up
with the child process 'diff' <defunct>.
When you say the buffer is tied to an svn repository, do you mean
you're using emacs as your commit editor as in the following report?
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-10/msg00375.html
That report is about how emacs crashes when hitting Ctrl-G. This report
is about how emacs doesn't crash but hangs apparently waiting for a
defunct child process.
I've recently (since a few weeks) started to experience this same
problem several times per day. The only option I have found is to send a
SIGKILL to emacs and start over.
It happens when running for example cleartool in a sub shell or when
saving files over ssh or scp with tramp. When doing a 'ps -ef' I always
find a <defunct> child process of emacs - eg.:
liejj 4968 7748 ? 14:30:47 /usr/bin/cygpath <defunct>
liejj 7748 1 pty1 11:33:32 /usr/bin/emacs-X11
or
liejj 5064 3976 pty1 10:10:20 /usr/bin/emacs-X11
liejj 2024 5064 pty11 10:28:56 /usr/bin/ssh
liejj 6300 5064 ? 11:30:58 /cygdrive/c/Program Files/IBM/RationalSDLC/ClearCase/bin/cleartool <defunct>
If so, it's a bug in emacs-24.2 that has been fixed upstream for
emacs-24.3. If not, more details would be helpful.
I'll attach the cygcheck output. Is there anything else I should do?