Bug 769673 - Emacs stuck in infinite loop and eats up all RAM
Summary: Emacs stuck in infinite loop and eats up all RAM
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: emacs
Version: 6.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Karel Klíč
QA Contact: Ondrej Moriš
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Depends On: 732157
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-12-21 17:15 UTC by RHEL Program Management
Modified: 2018-11-26 18:36 UTC (History)
17 users (show)

Fixed In Version: emacs-23.1-21.el6_2.1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
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
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2012:0042 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE emacs bug fix update 2012-01-23 14:06:55 UTC

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 
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
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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
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