From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15575: 24.3.50; New tty menus crash Emacs Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 21:34:24 +0300 Message-ID: <8338o1oyj3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <7A5C065F-4E90-4846-80EE-650AF314DCB2@swipnet.se> <83a9iiqr49.fsf@gnu.org> <5D661800-C7B5-495B-BF9D-F2E1F16C9B93@swipnet.se> <834n8qqnfx.fsf@gnu.org> <97F9A2CA-8E08-4867-93C3-5BAE8DF80D72@swipnet.se> <83txgpp0f1.fsf@gnu.org> <5AFF19E5-0778-425A-AF0C-0C027DEFB3D6@swipnet.se> <83pprcq5nt.fsf@gnu.org> <5FC82EF1-4394-44C9-A9DB-30ED99DB186F@swipnet.se> <83fvs8p9ks.fsf@gnu.org> <5257CAF9.50307@gmx.at> <83eh7srrmu.fsf@gnu.org> <5257E42D.6000507@gmx.at> <838uxzsxi3.fsf@gnu.org> <525D891B.3020204@gmx.at> <83iowypddh.fsf@gnu.org> <525E43CA.5040408@gmx.at> <83a9i9p7gz.fsf@gnu.org> <525ED175.3090800@gmx.at> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381948517 10019 80.91.229.3 (16 Oct 2013 18:35:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:35:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 15575@debbugs.gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 16 20:35:20 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1VWVwC-0002Ib-Id for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:35:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48885 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VWVwC-00029q-5n for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:35:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43661) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VWVw4-00027U-CO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:35:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VWVvz-0004kp-3A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:35:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:40578) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VWVvz-0004kM-0R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:35:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VWVvy-0002WX-Ex for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:35:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:35:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15575 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 15575-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B15575.13819484909681 (code B ref 15575); Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:35:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15575) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Oct 2013 18:34:50 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54597 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VWVvl-0002W5-Gc for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:34:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:52981) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VWVvi-0002Vr-Mm for 15575@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:34:48 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MUR00N00Y6A0S00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for 15575@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 21:34:40 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MUR00MYGY9CY240@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 21:34:24 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <525ED175.3090800@gmx.at> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:79322 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 19:48:37 +0200 > From: martin rudalics > CC: 15575@debbugs.gnu.org > > (gdb) tty /dev/pts/3 What is /dev/pts/3? It should name an existing terminal. > (gdb) show inferior-tty > Terminal for future runs of program being debugged is "/dev/pts/3". > (gdb) run -Q -nw > Starting program: /home/martin/emacs/trunk/src/bootstrap-emacs -Q -nw > [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] > Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1". > [New Thread 0x7fffefd46700 (LWP 4629)] > [Thread 0x7ffff7fcd960 (LWP 4626) exited] > (gdb) > > ... and it still tells me that my terminal is dumb. Not sure why is dumb terminal relevant here. Anyway, AFAIK the way to do this is as follows: gdb ./emacs (gdb) tty /dev/SOMETHING (gdb) r -Q -t /dev/SOMETHING (Not sure if -t /dev/SOMETHING is necessary.) But there seems to be some bug (or feature) in Emacs: it says "emacs: Could not open file: /dev/tty" and quits. Other programs work as expected with the above recipe. Maybe some Posix guru can find out what's wrong or how to work around that.