From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Steven Allen <steven@stebalien.com>
Cc: 74902@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#74902: 31.0.50; Segfault when deleting frames
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:50:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <861py7r5jq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87frmoy5aq.fsf@stebalien.com> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)
> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 14:01:17 -0800
> From: Steven Allen via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
>
> I use EXWM and, Emacs very occasionally seems to crash when closing
> floating windows. Specifically, it crashes when deleting the frame
> wrapping the floating window. Unfortunately, I don't have a great way to
> reproduce it with a minimal setup or to reproduce it reliably enough to
> grab a trace with GDB.
>
> As far as I can tell, this is because `delete-frame' calls `delq' (from
> C) which then handles a signal (not sure what signal) via the
> `FOR_EACH_TAIL' macro while deleting the frame. Unfortunately, that
> eventually calls `gobble_input' which operates on frames.
>
>
> Backtrace:
>
> /usr/bin/emacs(emacs_backtrace+0x4e) [0x61e77935447e]
> /usr/bin/emacs(terminate_due_to_signal+0xaf) [0x61e7791a4c5d]
> /usr/bin/emacs(+0x5e062) [0x61e7791a6062]
> /usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x42150) [0x7e3a544dc150]
> /usr/bin/emacs(+0xeff78) [0x61e779237f78]
> /usr/bin/emacs(+0x19a564) [0x61e7792e2564]
> /usr/bin/emacs(+0x19a829) [0x61e7792e2829]
> /usr/bin/emacs(+0x1a1c58) [0x61e7792e9c58]
> /usr/bin/emacs(+0x1b0bb8) [0x61e7792f8bb8]
> /usr/bin/emacs(gobble_input+0x272) [0x61e77933f3a2]
> /usr/bin/emacs(probably_quit+0xc6) [0x61e7793ec666]
> /usr/bin/emacs(Fdelq+0xb6) [0x61e77940c196]
> /usr/bin/emacs(delete_frame+0x2d4) [0x61e7791d77b4]
> /usr/bin/emacs(Fdelete_frame+0x17) [0x61e7791d8a07]
This is less useful than a backtrace could be. Can you run Emacs
under GDB, and when it crashes, type
(gdb) thread apply all bt
and post here everything GDB produces as result?
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2024-12-15 22:01 bug#74902: 31.0.50; Segfault when deleting frames Steven Allen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-12-16 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-12-16 16:12 ` Steven Allen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-12-16 17:20 ` Robert Pluim
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