Re: [O] bug#19606: 24.4; Emacs hangs when editing a 5-line Org file

[Fabrice Niessen]

Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> Fabrice Niessen writes:
>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
>>>> Cc: Fabrice Niessen <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
>>>> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:37:36 -0500
>>>> 
>>>> I just want to note that there seems to be a tendency to try and
>>>> use gdb to debug Org problems, when debug-on-quit and ctrl-g might
>>>> work.
>>>
>>> Very true.
>>
>> As it doesn't seem obvious, let me state explicitly that C-g does
>> nothing; Emacs is hung and does not answer anymore to anything...
>
> I've had this problem before, also un-quittable, and have gotten
> a backtrace and regained control by sending SIGUSR2 to the emacs
> process.  The backtrace indicates some conflict with flyspell-mode,
> same as you.

On Cygwin (I'm on Windows), that does not seem to work:

  kill -10 <PID>
  kill -USR2 <PID>

all answer that there is "no such process" -- while, as you can see in
http://screencast.com/t/EFDJIIu7, I typed the right PID of the hung
Emacs process...

Best regards,
Fabrice