From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ryan Thompson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5802: emacsclient -c crashes emacs --daemon intermittently; have strace Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:02:13 -0700 Message-ID: References: <2a4ba2fd1003251154w52283ce8w9a728b4d1e1c4170@mail.gmail.com> <2a4ba2fd1003291508t5fccd372h2c13bbd3f19f83f7@mail.gmail.com> <2a4ba2fd1003301006w23d9110ch87068e1a6862a687@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270103193 17722 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2010 06:26:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 06:26:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 5802@debbugs.gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 01 08:26:27 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxDrF-0001lo-4y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:26:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44713 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxDrE-0005fQ-58 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:26:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NxDqi-0005Ux-Qx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:25:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58987 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxDqe-0005U8-1O for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:25:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxDqa-00015Z-19 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:25:47 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:44586) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxDqZ-00015Q-Vn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:25:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxDUb-00008R-Uh; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:03:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Ryan Thompson Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:03:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 5802 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 5802-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B5802.1270101758513 (code B ref 5802); Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:03:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 5802) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Apr 2010 06:02:38 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxDUE-00008E-AE for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:02:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yx0-f185.google.com ([209.85.210.185]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxDUD-000087-3o for 5802@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:02:37 -0400 Original-Received: by yxe15 with SMTP id 15so299390yxe.7 for <5802@debbugs.gnu.org>; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:02:33 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.231.14.193 with HTTP; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:02:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Original-Received: by 10.151.4.1 with SMTP id g1mr915637ybi.175.1270101753175; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:02:33 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:03:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:35848 Archived-At: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > Ryan Thompson writes: > >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Dan Nicolaescu wrote: >>> Ryan Thompson writes: >>> >>>> I am trying to set myself up using emacs --daemon so that I can easily >>>> manage multiple emacs frames within one process. However, I have hit a >>>> significant stumbling block. If I run emacs --daemon (or emacs -nw and >>>> then do (server-start) ) and then repeatedly run emacsclient -c and >>>> clost the resulting window, emacs will randomly crash. Sometimes it >>>> happens on the first time that I run emacsclient -c, sometimes on the >>>> 20th. >>>> >>>> I use Ubuntu 9.10, and I have reported this bug in Launchpad. However, >>>> I have also compiled both emacs 23.1 and trunk from vanilla sources, >>>> and both of these exhibit the same bug as the Ubuntu-packaged >>>> versions. >>>> >>>> I have generated some stack traces by the following procedure, as >>>> described at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs23/+bug/543611 >>>> >>>> Open two terminals. In the first terminal, run the following commands >>>> to start emacs with strace: >>>> >>>> $ mkdir -p /tmp/emacs-strace >>>> $ strace -o /tmp/emacs-strace/trace-`date +%s`.log emacs -Q -nw >>>> >>>> When emacs has started, do M-x server-start so that emacsclient can >>>> work. Now, in the second terminal, run the following command: >>>> >>>> $ x=0; while emacsclient -c ; do x=$(( $x + 1 )); done; echo "Created >>>> $x windows before crash." >>>> >>>> Now, an emacs window will open. Close it. Each time you close a >>>> window, a new emacs window will open. Keep closing each one that >>>> appears. If emacs exhibits the bug, then eventually you will close one >>>> window, and emacs will crash when it tries to create the next one. At >>>> this point, you can go get your stack trace in /tmp/emacs-strace. >>> >>> This is very likely due to a long standing bug in Gtk+, see: >>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715 >>> >>> Please compile emacs using >>> >>> ./configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid >>> >>> and try to reproduce the problem you are seeing with that emacs. >>> >> >> I tried that; same problem. Would you like a stack trace? > > Sure, for the lucid version please. > But please get the stack trace using by attaching gdb to emacs. > See etc/DEBUG for more info. > > Also, please start emacs using "emacs -Q" > > > I tried to figure out gdb, but I couldn't figure it out in the time I had. But I have been running all my tests with -Q. I'll try again when I have more time to mess around with it.