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[Jesse Glick <typrase@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I routinely copy text from other applications such as Chromium and
Ctrl-Y to paste into Emacs. This worked fine as of Xubuntu 15.04. After
upgrading to 15.10 (emacs24 24.5+1-1ubuntu2), the yank operation
frequently hangs, freezing Emacs for perhaps a minute, not interruptible
with Ctrl-G. Eventually it recovers (but pastes something other than the
current clipboard contents). Once the problem starts happening, I cannot
paste into my Emacs window without a hang, making it a blocker for
routine usage.

I found http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16737 which linked
to https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-07/msg00106.html
from which I found
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=a27ae9d7650a1230d4359eaf0a949f827315a6d2
that seems to be a backport to Emacs 24. Please make sure Ubuntu picks
up this fix.

** Affects: emacs24 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: clipboard hang

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Title:
  Emacs hangs upon yank from X clipboard

Status in emacs24 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I routinely copy text from other applications such as Chromium and
  Ctrl-Y to paste into Emacs. This worked fine as of Xubuntu 15.04.
  After upgrading to 15.10 (emacs24 24.5+1-1ubuntu2), the yank operation
  frequently hangs, freezing Emacs for perhaps a minute, not
  interruptible with Ctrl-G. Eventually it recovers (but pastes
  something other than the current clipboard contents). Once the problem
  starts happening, I cannot paste into my Emacs window without a hang,
  making it a blocker for routine usage.

  I found http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16737 which
  linked to https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-
  devel/2015-07/msg00106.html from which I found
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=a27ae9d7650a1230d4359eaf0a949f827315a6d2
  that seems to be a backport to Emacs 24. Please make sure Ubuntu picks
  up this fix.

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