From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Need help debugging Emacs: emacsclient will not draw its contents sometimes Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:26:53 +0200 Message-ID: <83fuwswrhu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20316.1455584823@allegro.localdomain> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455640443 20054 80.91.229.3 (16 Feb 2016 16:34:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:34:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mike Kupfer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 16 17:33:59 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aViZa-0004u1-Cp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:33:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47733 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aViZZ-0000Sl-LU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:33:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40024) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aViSf-0005sK-Ei for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:26:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aViSa-0004y0-Dj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:26:49 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57811) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aViSa-0004xw-AS; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:26:44 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3119 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aViSZ-00071f-K7; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:26:44 -0500 In-reply-to: <20316.1455584823@allegro.localdomain> (message from Mike Kupfer on Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:07:03 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:200039 Archived-At: > From: Mike Kupfer > Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:07:03 -0800 > > After several months of not seeing this problem (last discussed in > September), I hit it today after invoking "emacsclient -c". I've > attached a partial screenshot. The background color looks right, and I > see the region for the menubar, but the gutters, scrollbar, and modeline > are all totally missing. According to what you found, Emacs doesn't think this frame exists. So it's small wonder its display is severely corrupted. > Here's the relevant excerpt from the server log for two emacsclient > invocations. The first one is for the bad frame, the second one is for > a working frame. I can provide the entire server log if desired. I'm not sure the server log is the place to look for the problem. Why did you think it was relevant? > (The environment has some values that I'd rather not post on a public > list, so I've elided the environment from the above excerpt. The only > environment difference between the 2 frames was some sort of tag that > dmenu creates, e.g., > DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID=i3/dmenu_run/5146-9-athyra_TIME3863103774.) What is "dmenu"? What kind of build is this? (It's probably best to submit a formal bug report where all these details will be spelled out.)