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Does the information below help?  Can this bug be fixed?

		Thanks, -Chuck.

Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 16:39:22 EST
From: young@icad.COM (Jonathan H. Young)
To: rich@merl.com
In-Reply-To: rich@merl.com's message of 8 Dec 92 04:50:47 GMT
Subject: Emacs 18.58 intermittent Find File hang?

   From: rich@merl.com
   Date: 8 Dec 92 04:50:47 GMT

     Every few days, always when I have just hit the final <cr> after the
   file name argument to Find File (C-X C-f), my Emacs job freezes.  It
   will not respond to any further keyboard or mouse input; I finally
   have to kill it (I have waiting as long as 15 minutes to see if it
   will unfreeze itself, but it doesn't).  The rest of the environment on
   the workstation works fine.  If I try to read the same file from the
   shell or find the same file again with a new copy of Emacs, it works
   fine.

     The last two times this happened the file name I typed happened
   to begin with a tilda (e.g., ~someuser/foo.bar).  I don't know if
   this is a pattern or not.

     I realize that this could be a problem with NFS or any number of
   other things, but Emacs seems to be the only program showing
   a problem of this kind right now.

Howdy, neighbor!

I believe this is the same problem I have seen, but I don't know of a
fix yet.  We run 18.58 on many machines, but I have only observed the
problem on Sun 4s (Sparcstations, IPXs, etc) *after a YP server
crash*, after typing ~<user>/filename.  The problem arises in the YP
library user lookup code -- someone is passing in a NULL pointer and
the library loops.

My advice is to expect emacs to be flaky after a YP server crash.

				--- Jonathan