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Added some text about Gtk+ looping when X server dies.
author Jan Dj?rv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
date Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:18:12 +0000
parents f6f4d415536b
children 362e5c86fb72
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Thu Dec 18 18:48:08 2008 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Thu Dec 18 19:18:12 2008 +0000
@@ -233,6 +233,14 @@
 This happens because of bugs in Gtk+.  Gtk+ 2.10 seems to be OK.  See bug
 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715.
 
+** Emacs compiled with Gtk+ may loop forever if a display crashes.
+
+This is related to the bug above.  A scenario for this is when emacs is run 
+as a server, and an X frame is created.  If the X server for the frame
+crashes or exits unexpectedly and an attempt is made to create a new
+frame on another X display, then a Gtk+ error happens in the emacs
+server that results in an endless loop.
+
 ** Emacs compiled with Gtk+ crashes on startup on Cygwin.
 
 A typical error message is