Bug 769673

Summary: Emacs stuck in infinite loop and eats up all RAM
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: emacsAssignee: Karel Klíč <kklic>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ondrej Moriš <omoris>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 6.0CC: aaronk, ari.lemmke, bgollahe, chorn, cww, dbasant, dmalcolm, gasmith, kklic, meyarivan, msvoboda, omoris, pasteur, pm-eus, rdassen, rvokal, ssekidde
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: emacs-23.1-21.el6_2.1 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Emacs did not properly terminate if it was started remotely and the remote client session was closed while Emacs was suspended. Under these conditions, Emacs entered an infinite loop in the code and gradually consumed all available computer resources, which caused the system to become unstable. With this update, Emacs has been modified, and it now terminates correctly when the remote session is closed.
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Last Closed: 2012-01-23 09:11:33 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 732157    
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Description RHEL Program Management 2011-12-21 17:15:15 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #732157 and has been proposed
to be backported to 6.2 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 5 Miroslav Svoboda 2012-01-09 12:23:45 UTC
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Emacs did not properly terminate if it was started remotely and the remote client session was closed while Emacs was suspended. Under these conditions, Emacs entered an infinite loop in the code and gradually consumed all available computer resources, which caused the system to become unstable. With this update, Emacs has been modified, and it now terminates correctly when the remote session is closed.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2012-01-23 09:11:33 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0042.html