delete-process

delete-process

[Ekkehard Krüger]

Hallo,

I have upgraded my emacs to Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
  of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE.

I believe that the function "delete-process"  now is undefined.
Therefore, emacs crashes whenever this function is called.
(For instance, when ispell is terminated by "Q".)

Gruss Ekkehard Krüger

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Re: delete-process

[Jason Rumney]

Ekkehard Krüger wrote:
> I have upgraded my emacs to Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE.
>
> I believe that the function "delete-process"  now is undefined.
> Therefore, emacs crashes whenever this function is called.
> (For instance, when ispell is terminated by "Q".)

Thank you for the report, but I cannot reproduce this. delete-process is 
a built in function, so there is no way it cannot be defined, and an 
undefined function would not lead to a crash.

Can you reproduce the problem if you start Emacs from the command-line 
as "emacs -Q"?

Re: delete-process

[martin rudalics]

 > I have upgraded my emacs to Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 >  of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE.
 >
 > I believe that the function "delete-process"  now is undefined.

What does C-h f RET delete-process RET give on your system?

 > Therefore, emacs crashes whenever this function is called.

How does "emacs crash"?  Please be more specific here.

 > (For instance, when ispell is terminated by "Q".)

Do you mean when you type `q' to "quit spelling session (Kills ispell
process)"?

delete-process

[Ekkehard Krüger]

From:  <Ekkehard@EKKE>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: ispell
--text follows this line--

I invoke Emacs or, from a command line, emacs -Q. Then I load some
file text.tex and run ispell. Now, when I want to terminate ispell
before it has proved the whole text, I type the letter q.
The system then asks

Really kill ispell process? (y or n)

I type 'y' and now emacs hangs. I cannot terminate the program
by C-g, even when I type this repeatedly. I can terminate emacs only
with the Windows task manager.

I found that emacs hangs when the function ispell-kill-ispell
(in ispell.el) is called and when the command (delete-process  
ispell-process)
within this function is called.

I have installed Ispell 3.1.20

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
     `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
d:/Programme/emacs/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
  of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags  
-Ic:/gnuwin32/include'

Important settings:
   value of $LC_ALL: nil
   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
   value of $LC_TIME: nil
   value of $LANG: DEU
   locale-coding-system: cp1252
   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: LaTeX/S

Minor modes in effect:
   reftex-mode: t
   delete-selection-mode: t
   pc-selection-mode: t
   TeX-source-specials-mode: t
   display-time-mode: t
   encoded-kbd-mode: t
   tooltip-mode: t
   tool-bar-mode: t
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   menu-bar-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
   global-font-lock-mode: t
   font-lock-mode: t
   unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
   utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
   auto-compression-mode: t
   line-number-mode: t
   transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<return> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <return> <down> <down> <down>
<return> <return> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <return> <C-f2>
x <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <re
port-emacs-bug>

Recent messages:
Automatic display of crossref information was turned on
Loading preview...
Loading byte-opt...done
Loading preview...done
Applying style hooks... done
Loading ispell...done
Starting new Ispell process [default] ...
Spell checking Arbeit13.tex using ispell with default dictionary...
Exited spell-checking
Loading emacsbug...done


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Re: delete-process

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:19:06 +0100
> From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?Ekkehard_Kr=FCger?= <krueger@mf.mpg.de>
> 
> I invoke Emacs or, from a command line, emacs -Q. Then I load some
> file text.tex and run ispell. Now, when I want to terminate ispell
> before it has proved the whole text, I type the letter q.
> The system then asks
> 
> Really kill ispell process? (y or n)
> 
> I type 'y' and now emacs hangs. I cannot terminate the program
> by C-g, even when I type this repeatedly. I can terminate emacs only
> with the Windows task manager.

Thank you for a detailed recipe.  Unfortunately, like Jason, I cannot
reproduce this on my machine: when I type `q' and answer `y' to the
above question, Emacs says that Ispell was killed and does not hang.

> I have installed Ispell 3.1.20

Where did you get this port of Ispell?  Can you please post everything
that this Ispell displays when you type "ispell -vv" at the Windows
command shell prompt?

Re: delete-process

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:39:30 +0100
> From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?Ekkehard_Kr=FCger?= <krueger@mf.mpg.de>
> 
> Dear Eli Zaretskii,
> 
> thank you for your answer. I now have the important information,
> that you cannot reproduce my problem. Obviously, it is not a
> general bug, but a problem of my personal emacs installation.
> In the next days, I shall download and install emacs and ispell
> once more.
> 
> Nevertheless, I want to answer your questions.
> 
> I downloaded ispell from
> ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Humblet_Pierre_A/

This seems to be a Cygwin port of Ispell.  Cygwin ports are subtly
incompatible with native Windows executables such as the Windows port
of Emacs.  I suggest to install a different port of Ispell, e.g. from
this site:

  http://www.luziusschneider.com/Speller/English/

Re: delete-process

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:47:56 +0100
> From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?Ekkehard_Kr=FCger?= <krueger@mf.mpg.de>
> 
> Am Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:37:36 +0100 schrieb Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> 
> >> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:40:38 +0100
> >> From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?Ekkehard_Kr=FCger?= <krueger@mf.mpg.de>
> >>
> >> Fortunately, I still have my old "emacs-21.3-fullbin-i386.tar.gz"
> >> file on my computer.
> >> I extracted emacs-21.3 and replaced the new emacs-22.1-function
> >> "ispell-kill-ispell" (in ispell.el) by the old function of emacs-21.3.
> >>
> >> Now, when I type `q' and answer `y' to the
> >> question
> >>
> >> Really kill ispell process? (y or n)
> >>
> >> Emacs says that Ispell was killed and does not hang.
> >>
> >> Perhaps, the new function "ispell-kill-ispell" yet has a bug?
> >
> > It's possible, but then why does it work for me and others?
> >
> > Please do try the version from Emacs 22.1 with the other port of
> > Ispell that I sent you in my other message.
> >
> 
> I did so: I installed Ispell from the other port and use again the
> the function  "ispell-kill-ispell" from Emacs 22.1. As you presumed,
> the problem is solved now. Emacs no longer hangs when ispell is killed.

I'm glad I was able to help you.

Thanks for working on this.