bug#69762: X11 versions of Emacs 29 on sparc fail at startup

[Ali Bahrami <ali_gnu2@emvision.com>]

On 3/13/24 6:17 PM, Po Lu wrote:
> Please run Emacs under gdb (or some other suitable debugger, e.g. dbx)
> with the command-line options:
> 
>    -q -xrm 'Emacs.synchronous: True'
> 
> exactly as written above, break on xterm.c:x_error_quitter, and reply
> with the backtrace generated after this breakpoint is hit.

The gdb output follows. Thanks.

- Ali

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% gdb src/emacs
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Reading symbols from src/emacs...
(gdb) break xterm.c:x_error_quitter
warning: could not convert 'x_error_quitter' from the host encoding (ISO-8859-1) to UTF-32.
This normally should not happen, please file a bug report.
Breakpoint 1 at 0x1001acebc: file xterm.c, line 26129.
(gdb) run -q -xrm 'Emacs.synchronous: True'
alib-us:~ alib$ cat Desktop/emacs-x.dbg
% gdb src/emacs
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Reading symbols from src/emacs...
(gdb) break xterm.c:x_error_quitter
warning: could not convert 'x_error_quitter' from the host encoding (ISO-8859-1) to UTF-32.
This normally should not happen, please file a bug report.
Breakpoint 1 at 0x1001acebc: file xterm.c, line 26129.
(gdb) run -q -xrm 'Emacs.synchronous: True'
Starting program: /builds2/alib/emacs292/emacs-29.2/src/emacs -q -xrm 'Emacs.synchronous: True'
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 1 (LWP 1)]
[New LWP    2        ]
[New Thread 2 (LWP 2)]
[Switching to Thread 1 (LWP 1)]

Thread 2 hit Breakpoint 1, x_error_quitter (display=0x101534ab0,
     event=0xffffffff7fffdc70) at xterm.c:26129
26129   {
(gdb) where
#0  x_error_quitter (display=0x101534ab0, event=0xffffffff7fffdc70)
     at xterm.c:26129
#1  0x00000001001acff0 in x_error_handler
     (display=<optimized out>, event=0xffffffff7fffdc70) at xterm.c:26117
#2  0x00007ffff09f7ec4 in _XError () at /usr/lib/64/libX11.so.4
#3  0x00007ffff09f27fc in handle_error () at /usr/lib/64/libX11.so.4
#4  0x00007ffff09f3a60 in _XReply () at /usr/lib/64/libX11.so.4
#5  0x00007ffff09e8230 in XSync () at /usr/lib/64/libX11.so.4
#6  0x00007ffff09e82e0 in _XSyncFunction () at /usr/lib/64/libX11.so.4
#7  0x00007ffff0211018 in XSyncCreateFence () at /usr/lib/64/libXext.so.0
#8  0x00000001001a4328 in x_sync_init_fences (f=0x1016fd3e8) at xterm.c:7064
#9  0x00000001001ceb20 in Fx_create_frame (parms=0x1015067d3) at xfns.c:5222
#10 0x0000000100281c40 in funcall_subr
     (subr=0x1008c16b0 <Sx_create_frame>, numargs=1, args=<optimized out>)
     at eval.c:3038
#11 0x00000001002d2cc8 in exec_byte_code
     (fun=<optimized out>, args_template=<optimized out>, nargs=<optimized out>, args=<optimized out>) at /builds2/alib/emacs292/emacs-29.2/src/lisp.h:2211
#12 0x000000010027e0f4 in Ffuncall (nargs=2, args=0x1010efe78) at eval.c:2999
#13 0x000000010027e634 in Fapply (nargs=2, args=0x1010efe78) at eval.c:2627
#14 0x0000000100281bc8 in funcall_subr
     (subr=0x1008c89c0 <Sapply>, numargs=2, args=0x1010efe78) at eval.c:3063
#15 0x00000001002d2cc8 in exec_byte_code
     (fun=<optimized out>, args_template=<optimized out>, nargs=<optimized out>, args=<optimized out>) at /builds2/alib/emacs292/emacs-29.2/src/lisp.h:2211
#16 0x0000000100283fbc in apply_lambda
     (fun=0xffffffff7ea0fa5d, args=<optimized out>, count=...) at eval.c:3107
#17 0x00000001002820d8 in eval_sub (form=<optimized out>) at eval.c:2592
#18 0x0000000100285260 in Feval
     (form=0xffffffff7eb9242b, lexical=<optimized out>) at eval.c:2365
#19 0x000000010027c4e0 in internal_condition_case
     (bfun=0x1001df06c <top_level_2>, handlers=0x90, hfun=0x1001e792c <cmd_error>) at eval.c:1474
#20 0x00000001001dfbbc in top_level_1 (ignore=<optimized out>)
     at keyboard.c:1150
#21 0x000000010027c414 in internal_catch
     (tag=0xf9c0, func=0x1001dfb74 <top_level_1>, arg=0x0) at eval.c:1197
#22 0x00000001001defdc in command_loop () at keyboard.c:1110
#23 0x00000001001e7328 in recursive_edit_1 () at keyboard.c:720
#24 0x00000001001e785c in Frecursive_edit () at keyboard.c:803
#25 0x00000001001ddd1c in main (argc=4, argv=<optimized out>) at emacs.c:2521