From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: "Ryan C. Thompson" <rct@thompsonclan.org>
Cc: 11415@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11415: 24.1.50; Dbus hangs indefinitely during batch mode & daemon startup
Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 12:59:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d36hshg5.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA5A187.1010601@thompsonclan.org> (Ryan C. Thompson's message of "Sat, 05 May 2012 14:54:15 -0700")
"Ryan C. Thompson" <rct@thompsonclan.org> writes:
> It seems that during the startup of any emacs without a terminal
> (i.e. "--batch" or "--daemon"), recent emacs snapshots cannot make dbus
> calls. Worse, any attempt to make a dbus call will hang
> indefinitely. This stops me from being able to use some of my config in
> emacs, since it is dbus based and cannot be loaded on startup in daemon
> mode.
>
> Specifically, I can easily reproduce the bug like this:
>
> emacs-snapshot -Q --batch -l dbus --eval '(message
> "DBus system names: %s"
> (dbus-call-method :system dbus-service-dbus
> dbus-path-dbus dbus-interface-dbus "ListNames"))'
In Emacs 24.1.50, `dbus-call-method' changed from a synchronous call to
an asynchronous one (see etc/NEWS). If Emacs runs in batch mode, it
doesn't seem to read incoming events. Therefore, the return event of the
call is not read.
I will see what can be done. Either we must enable Emacs to receive some
special input events also in batch mode. Or we must check inside
`dbus-call-method', whether Emacs runs daemonized, and use the blocking
call then.
I would prefer the first alternative, because receiving D-Bus signals and
running Emacs as D-Bus enabled server does not work either when Emacs
does not accept incoming events.
> There is no backtrace or anything, because the dbus call never
> returns.
In theory, it shall accept at least timeouts, like
emacs -Q --daemon -l dbus --eval \
'(message "DBus system names: %s" \
(dbus-call-method \
:system dbus-service-dbus dbus-path-dbus dbus-interface-dbus \
"ListNames" :timeout 5000))'
But it doesn't, which is another bug to be fixed.
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-06 10:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-05 21:54 bug#11415: 24.1.50; Dbus hangs indefinitely during batch mode & daemon startup Ryan C. Thompson
2012-05-06 10:59 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2012-05-07 14:28 ` Michael Albinus
2012-05-07 15:04 ` Christopher Schmidt
2012-05-14 7:08 ` Michael Albinus
2012-05-14 15:30 ` Paul Eggert
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