bug#5515: 23.1.92; OSX: Emacs gets stuck while wanting to display a dialog box

bug#5515: 23.1.92; OSX: Emacs gets stuck while wanting to display a dialog box

[Carsten Bormann]

(This bug may be related to some quirkyness around external
subprocesses, such as those started by flymake or archive-mode.  These
sometimes don't run properly, but I haven't been able to pin that one
down at all.  They do cause a dialog box, e.g., indicating that a
program is not found which is very much there.  This in turn may be
related to a bug where Emacs still thinks it has subprocesses attached
to a buffer that is to be killed.  All very confusing.  On to this bug:)

Approximately the second dialog box that Emacs displays because of the
above quirkyness gets stuck in the following way:

The dialog box is not displayed, but Emacs also no longer accepts any
input on the existing frames.  Looking at it in the debugger suggests
that there should indeed be a dialog box visible:

^C
Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
0x00007fff876399ee in __semwait_signal ()
(gdb) where
#0  0x00007fff876399ee in __semwait_signal ()
#1  0x00007fff8763987d in nanosleep ()
#2  0x00007fff88a5677c in +[NSThread sleepUntilDate:] ()
#3  0x00000001001a5b87 in -[EmacsDialogPanel runDialogAt:] ()
#4  0x003a657461446c69 in ?? ()

This is as good as a crash as there is no way to supply any further
input to the running Emacs.
(Obviously, I restarted Emacs to type this bug report.)

Recent version built from git (repo.or.cz).
OSX 10.6.2, 64-bit.

In GNU Emacs 23.1.92.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.2.0, NS apple-appkit-1038.25)
 of 2010-01-31 on tuffi.local
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1038
configured using `configure  '--without-dbus' '--without-x' '--with-ns' 'CFLAGS=-O9 -mtune=nocona -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer''

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<menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report>

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bug#5515: 23.1.92; OSX: Emacs gets stuck while wanting to display a dialog box

[Adrian Robert]

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5515

Hello,

Could you please provide a step-by-step procedure, starting from emacs -Q, to reproduce this bug?

thank you,
Adrian

bug#5515: 23.1.92; OSX: Emacs gets stuck while wanting to display a dialog box

[Adrian Robert]

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On Apr 3, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Carsten Bormann wrote:

> I have distilled the test case to the attached file.
> Sorry, I don't know how to reduce this further.
> At least it's fully reproduceable with various Emacs versions around 23.1/24.0.
> I only tried it on 10.6, though.


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;; this is taken and simplified from: git://github.com/remvee/emacs-rails.git
;; flymake ruby support

(require 'flymake nil t)

(defconst flymake-allowed-ruby-file-name-masks
  '(("\\.rb\\'"      flymake-ruby-init))
  "Filename extensions that switch on flymake-ruby mode syntax checks.")

(defun flymake-ruby-init ()
  (condition-case er
      (let* ((temp-file (flymake-init-create-temp-buffer-copy
                         'flymake-create-temp-inplace))
             (local-file  (file-relative-name
                           temp-file
                           (file-name-directory buffer-file-name))))
        (list rails-ruby-command (list "-c" local-file)))
    ('error ())))

(defun flymake-ruby-load ()
  (setq flymake-allowed-file-name-masks
          (append flymake-allowed-file-name-masks flymake-allowed-ruby-file-name-masks))
  (flymake-mode t))

(add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook 'flymake-ruby-load)

(setq rails-ruby-command "/bad/file/name")

;; eval this buffer, as in:
; Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q -l dot-emacs-reproduce-5515-1.el
;; now edit (C-x C-f) a random .rb file.
;; -- the error message will come up fine (pop-up), acknowledge that
;; -- C-x C-v RET
;; -- this second error message is not visible and leads into nirvana

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bug#5515: 23.1.92; OSX: Emacs gets stuck while wanting to display a dialog box

[Adrian Robert]

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On Apr 3, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Adrian Robert wrote:

> 
> On Apr 3, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> 
>> I have distilled the test case to the attached file.
>> Sorry, I don't know how to reduce this further.
>> At least it's fully reproduceable with various Emacs versions around 23.1/24.0.
>> I only tried it on 10.6, though.
> 
> <dot-emacs-reproduce-5515-1.el>

Hello Carsten,

Thank you for this test case.  I tried the procedure outlined, but could not reproduce the issue on a somewhat older (23.1.90) version of emacs, running 64-bit on 10.6.2.  I guess we have a regression here.  However, I fixed a related dialog problem (bug#5811) with the attached patch.  Would you be able to test it and see if it does anything for the issue in your case?

thanks,
Adrian

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Index: nsmenu.m
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/src/nsmenu.m,v
retrieving revision 1.31
diff -u -p -r1.31 nsmenu.m
--- nsmenu.m	9 Nov 2009 06:21:03 -0000	1.31
+++ nsmenu.m	10 Apr 2010 06:09:44 -0000
@@ -1709,7 +1709,7 @@ void process_dialog (id window, Lisp_Obj
 
 - (Lisp_Object)runDialogAt: (NSPoint)p
 {
-  int ret;
+  NSInteger ret;
   extern EMACS_TIME timer_check (int do_it_now); /* TODO: add to a header */
 
   /* initiate a session that will be ended by pop_down_menu */

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bug#5515: 23.1.92; OSX: Emacs gets stuck while wanting to display a dialog box

[Carsten Bormann]

On Apr 10, 2010, at 08:26, Adrian Robert wrote:

> 
> On Apr 3, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Adrian Robert wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Apr 3, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Carsten Bormann wrote:
>> 
>>> I have distilled the test case to the attached file.
>>> Sorry, I don't know how to reduce this further.
>>> At least it's fully reproduceable with various Emacs versions around 23.1/24.0.
>>> I only tried it on 10.6, though.
>> 
>> <dot-emacs-reproduce-5515-1.el>
> 
> Hello Carsten,
> 
> Thank you for this test case.  I tried the procedure outlined, but could not reproduce the issue on a somewhat older (23.1.90) version of emacs, running 64-bit on 10.6.2.  

I just tried rebuilding Emacs 24.0. from scratch, from the git version 218181d7f636089824e9f876a5d662bf2e350229.
Using the parameters you told me:

setenv CFLAGS '-g'
./configure --with-ns
make -j3
make install

Running this on 10.6.3 (but I previously reproduced this on 10.6.2).

Now it takes three attempts (not two as previously) to open a Ruby file to reproduce the bug.
(This appears to point to some randomness influencing the occurrence of the bug.)


> I guess we have a regression here.  However, I fixed a related dialog problem (bug#5811) with the attached patch.  Would you be able to test it and see if it does anything for the issue in your case?

I then applied the patch, rebuilt (make -j3; make install), and retried.
(I cannot reproduce 5811 with the patched version, but I didn't try before patching; I *can* reproduce 5811 with an earlier 24.0.50 from http://emacsformacosx.com/builds -- the one built 2010-03-30; so this bug now seems to be fixed.)

Unfortunately, the patch makes no difference in the behavior wrt 5515.

BTW, if I evoke the print dialog once (CMD-P), click No, and then try the C-x C-f, I need only two attempts to trigger the bug.  If I evoke the print dialog twice, click No, and then try the C-x C-f, I trigger the bug immediately.  So it looks like the third dialog gets hit, but:
I can evoke the print dialog as much as I want without triggering the bug.

So, it looks like:
-- the bug only happens if dialogs have been active before (used to be once, now twice).
-- the bug only happens if the dialog is evoked in some rather specific circumstances (such as here: from an error handler in the creation of a process that is started from a timer handler).

Looks like this needs more work to properly isolate.

Gruesse, Carsten

bug#5515: 23.1.92; OSX: Emacs gets stuck while wanting to display a dialog box

[Adrian Robert]

Thanks, I'm able to reproduce it -- hitting the C-x C-v a second time as you say did the trick.

I'll try to fix it when I get a chance.


-Adrian

bug#5515: 23.1.92; OSX: Emacs gets stuck while wanting to display a dialog box

[Adrian Robert]

BTW, a couple of other comments re: interaction with the print dialog.  With me, the print dialog seems to help things.  If I do the first bad-find-ruby-file, then a Cmd-P, then I can do any number of bad-find-ruby-files without issue.  I don't know why.  Also, the behavior seems 100% deterministic in my case -- same patterns will always lead to the "nirvana" state.  Something inside the state of emacs / NS's event handling has changed, but I have not been able to isolate what.

bug#5515: 23.1.92; OSX: Emacs gets stuck while wanting to display a dialog box

[Alan Third]

Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks, I'm able to reproduce it -- hitting the C-x C-v a second time as you say did the trick.
>
> I'll try to fix it when I get a chance.

I can't reproduce this in Emacs 25, so I'm guessing it got fixed a while
back.

I'll close this bug.
-- 
Alan Third