Bug 805939 - Emacs hangs (fails to start) under icewm
Summary: Emacs hangs (fails to start) under icewm
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: icewm
Version: el5
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gilboa Davara
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-03-22 14:13 UTC by Alistair Bell
Modified: 2013-07-28 21:09 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: icewm-1.3.7-7.el5
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-07-28 21:08:59 UTC
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Description Alistair Bell 2012-03-22 14:13:49 UTC
Description of problem:
When launching Emacs under icewm 1.3.7, the application hangs and fails to create a window. Occasionally the window is created but is extremely sluggish.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
icewm 1.3.7-1.el5.x86_64 and 1.3.7-3.el5.x86_64
emacs 21.4-24.el5.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always reproducible

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start icewm.
2. Start emacs.
3.
  
Actual results:
The emacs window either does not appear or runs extremely sluggishly and is unresponsive to input.

Expected results:
Emacs runs normally.

Additional info:

This has been documented and fixed in Debian. See : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589432 for more details.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2012-06-10 09:14:47 UTC
icewm-1.3.7-4.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/icewm-1.3.7-4.fc17

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2012-06-10 09:15:01 UTC
icewm-1.3.7-4.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/icewm-1.3.7-4.fc16

Comment 3 Gilboa Davara 2012-06-10 09:27:49 UTC
(EL builds will soon follow)

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-06-10 10:43:06 UTC
icewm-1.3.7-5.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/icewm-1.3.7-5.fc16

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-06-10 10:43:17 UTC
icewm-1.3.7-5.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/icewm-1.3.7-5.el5

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-06-10 10:43:49 UTC
icewm-1.3.7-5.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/icewm-1.3.7-5.fc17

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2012-06-10 10:44:00 UTC
icewm-1.3.7-5.el6 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 6.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/icewm-1.3.7-5.el6

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2013-06-09 08:26:04 UTC
icewm-1.3.7-7.el6 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 6.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/icewm-1.3.7-7.el6

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2013-06-09 08:26:21 UTC
icewm-1.3.7-7.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/icewm-1.3.7-7.el5

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2013-06-10 17:02:18 UTC
Package icewm-1.3.7-7.el6:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=epel-testing icewm-1.3.7-7.el6'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2013-10399/icewm-1.3.7-7.el6
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2013-07-28 21:08:59 UTC
icewm-1.3.7-7.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2013-07-28 21:09:19 UTC
icewm-1.3.7-7.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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