From: Kevin Ryde <user42_kevin@yahoo.com.au>
To: 26458@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26458: 25.1; abort on X close window
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:02:52 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r30yusjn.fsf@blah.blah> (raw)
Under X and motif mwm window manager, closing emacs using the window
manager does not save modified buffers, and sometimes aborts. Eg.
emacs -Q /tmp/x
Ret # so modified
mwm Alt-f4 "close"
=>
Connection lost to X server ':0.0'
file /tmp/x not saved
where I hoped to get the usual query save before exit as by C-x C-c or
menu File/Quit.
(Generally X clients can treat WM_DELETE_WINDOW message the same as
other user keyboard or menu input asking for an orderly shutdown -- so
interaction and display continuing as normal for however long.)
Sometimes WM_DELETE_WINDOW can make emacs abort, depending what the kill
hooks do. For example foo.el containing
(add-hook 'kill-emacs-hook
(lambda ()
(sit-for 5)))
then
emacs -Q -l foo.el
mwm Alt-f4 "close"
=>
Connection lost to X server ':0.0'
Fatal error 6: Aborted
Backtrace:
emacs[0x8144f1c]
...
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6(_XIOError+0x5d)[0xb7345c2d]
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6(_XEventsQueued+0x96)[0xb7343266]
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6(XPending+0x62)[0xb7334752]
...
where I hoped it would not abort, and preferably not say a connection
lost message. (Don't mind exactly when the window is closed in this
case though, since kill-emacs-hook is not for interacting with the
user.)
xmon shows emacs gets ClientMessage WM_DELETE_WINDOW as expected, and a
WM_SAVE_YOURSELF. Emacs does a bit of drawing and then closes the
connection and aborts almost immediately, much sooner than 5 seconds
sit-for.
xmon of "save buffer" above similarly, but emacs starts doing something
creating a window. Perhaps it's the start of the save-changes dialog,
but it doesn't appear on screen.
I tried kill-emacs-query-functions, and the connection close seems to be
before it has a chance to ask user yes-or-no-p or similar.
I first struck the abort with save-place saving places on exit (no
buffers needing save, just save-place). But since abort happens just
with a sit-for I presume it's only something about time taken, not
anything specific save-place does.
In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
of 2017-01-01, modified by Debian built on x86-csail-01
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11900000
Configured using:
'configure --build i686-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr
--sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
--localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info
--mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes
--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs25:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/25.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/25.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
--with-sound=alsa --build i686-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr
--sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
--localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info
--mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes
--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs25:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/25.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/25.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
--with-sound=alsa --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=lucid
--with-toolkit-scroll-bars --without-gconf --without-gsettings
'CFLAGS=-g -O2
-fdebug-prefix-map=/build/emacs25-H2ebel/emacs25-25.1+1=. -fstack-protector-strong
-Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall' 'CPPFLAGS=-Wdate-time
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro'
Configured features:
XAW3D XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS NOTIFY ACL
LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS LUCID X11
Important settings:
value of $LANG: en_AU.iso88591
locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
next reply other threads:[~2017-04-12 5:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-12 5:02 Kevin Ryde [this message]
2017-04-12 6:14 ` bug#26458: 25.1; abort on X close window Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-14 3:56 ` Kevin Ryde
2017-04-14 7:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-17 6:42 ` Kevin Ryde
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