bug#8760: 24.0.50; Cannot kill emacs after killing text to kill-ring

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Emacs developers,

After I updated Emacs today, I found a very annoying bug.

If I copy/kill something to the kill-ring, I can't exit emacs with 'C-x
C-c'. Attempting to do so results in the following backtrace:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Timed out waiting for reply from
selection owner") kill-emacs()
  save-buffers-kill-emacs(nil)
  save-buffers-kill-terminal(nil)
  call-interactively(save-buffers-kill-terminal nil nil)

I have to kill emacs from the terminal or with xkill. When trying to
kill from the terminal, I have to execute the kill command twice like
this:

$ kill %1
$ kill %1

I observe this behaviour with emacs -Q. I am not subscribed to the dev
list, so if you wish any more information please feel free to contact me
directly.

Thanks a lot.

Suvayu


In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.4)
 of 2011-05-29 on bhishma.homelinux.net
Windowing system distributor `Fedora Project', version 11.0.11001000
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/opt/emacs-lisp'
'--with-selinux' '--with-imagemagick''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_IN.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<down> <down> <down> C-M-f C-x C-e <home> <up> <up> 
<up> C-SPC <C-down> <up> <up> <up> <up> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> M-w C-x C-c <help-echo> <help-echo> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> C-SPC <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> M-w <up> q M-x r e p o <tab> t <tab> 
<backspace> r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Loading vc-git...done
nil
Mark set
(No files need saving)
Entering debugger...
byte-code: Beginning of buffer [2 times]
Mark set
Back to top level.
Making completion list...

Load-path shadows:
/opt/emacs-lisp/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/hex-util
hides /opt/emacs-lisp/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/hex-util 
/opt/emacs-lisp/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/md4
hides /opt/emacs-lisp/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/md4 
/opt/emacs-lisp/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/ntlm
hides /opt/emacs-lisp/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/net/ntlm 
/opt/emacs-lisp/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/sasl
hides /opt/emacs-lisp/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/net/sasl 
/opt/emacs-lisp/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/sasl-digest
hides /opt/emacs-lisp/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/net/sasl-digest 
/opt/emacs-lisp/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/sasl-cram
hides /opt/emacs-lisp/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/net/sasl-cram 
/opt/emacs-lisp/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/sasl-ntlm
hides /opt/emacs-lisp/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/net/sasl-ntlm 
/opt/emacs-lisp/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/hmac-md5
hides /opt/emacs-lisp/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/net/hmac-md5 
/opt/emacs-lisp/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/hmac-def
hides /opt/emacs-lisp/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/net/hmac-def

Features:
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regexp-opt format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode
mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr
mailabbrev mail-utils gmm-utils mailheader emacsbug help-mode easymenu
view debug vc-git tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel
x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page
menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock
syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang
vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek
romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese
case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs
button faces cus-face files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64
format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable
backquote make-network-process dbusbind dynamic-setting
system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x
multi-tty emacs)


-- 
Suvayu

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