From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5802: emacsclient -c crashes emacs --daemon intermittently; have strace Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:47:14 -0400 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=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269971803 21868 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2010 17:56:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:56:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 5802@debbugs.gnu.org To: Ryan Thompson Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 30 19:56:37 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 1Nwfg5-0004G4-4p for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:56:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53756 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nwfg4-00080b-MD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:56:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NwffR-0007dh-UB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:55:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49337 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NwffQ-0007cu-Gh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:55:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwffM-0008Bu-QK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:55:56 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:60320) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwffM-0008Bo-OU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:55:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwfXm-0003eM-8s; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:48:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Dan Nicolaescu Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:48:02 +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=B5802.126997124014017 (code B ref 5802); Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:48:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 5802) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Mar 2010 17:47:20 +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 1NwfX6-0003e2-1E for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:47:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwfX4-0003dx-WC for 5802@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:47:19 -0400 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwfX0-0007W0-Cr; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:47:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <2a4ba2fd1003301006w23d9110ch87068e1a6862a687@mail.gmail.com> (Ryan Thompson's message of "Tue\, 30 Mar 2010 10\:06\:23 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:48:02 -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:35819 Archived-At: 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"