From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:18:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added some text about Gtk+ looping when X server dies.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-23.0.90~1025
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c4c122cb57baf1586c8760845e9d6d620815080e;p=emacs.git

Added some text about Gtk+ looping when X server dies.
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diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS
index cae4f3b956c..9d0b1e74109 100644
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS
@@ -233,6 +233,14 @@ configuring your compiler to use the native linker instead of GNU ld.
 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