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23.1.92; OSX: Emacs gets stuck while wanting to display a dialog box

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From: Carsten Bormann <cabo <at> tzi.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1.92; OSX: Emacs gets stuck while wanting to display a dialog box 
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 08:36:13 +0100

(This bug may be related to some quirkyness around external
subprocesses, such as those started by flymake or archive-mode.  These
sometimes don't run properly, but I haven't been able to pin that one
down at all.  They do cause a dialog box, e.g., indicating that a
program is not found which is very much there.  This in turn may be
related to a bug where Emacs still thinks it has subprocesses attached
to a buffer that is to be killed.  All very confusing.  On to this bug:)

Approximately the second dialog box that Emacs displays because of the
above quirkyness gets stuck in the following way:

The dialog box is not displayed, but Emacs also no longer accepts any
input on the existing frames.  Looking at it in the debugger suggests
that there should indeed be a dialog box visible:

^C
Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
0x00007fff876399ee in __semwait_signal ()
(gdb) where
#0  0x00007fff876399ee in __semwait_signal ()
#1  0x00007fff8763987d in nanosleep ()
#2  0x00007fff88a5677c in +[NSThread sleepUntilDate:] ()
#3  0x00000001001a5b87 in -[EmacsDialogPanel runDialogAt:] ()
#4  0x003a657461446c69 in ?? ()

This is as good as a crash as there is no way to supply any further
input to the running Emacs.
(Obviously, I restarted Emacs to type this bug report.)

Recent version built from git (repo.or.cz).
OSX 10.6.2, 64-bit.

In GNU Emacs 23.1.92.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.2.0, NS apple-appkit-1038.25)
 of 2010-01-31 on tuffi.local
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Message #10 received at 5515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
To: 5515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: cabo <at> tzi.org
Subject: Re: 23.1.92;
	OSX: Emacs gets stuck while wanting to display a dialog box
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:31:18 +0300

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5515

Hello,

Could you please provide a step-by-step procedure, starting from emacs -Q, to reproduce this bug?

thank you,
Adrian

Message #13 received at 5515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
To: Carsten Bormann <cabo <at> tzi.org>
Cc: 5515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.1.92;
	OSX: Emacs gets stuck while wanting to display a dialog box
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 18:18:17 +0300

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On Apr 3, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Carsten Bormann wrote:

> I have distilled the test case to the attached file.
> Sorry, I don't know how to reduce this further.
> At least it's fully reproduceable with various Emacs versions around 23.1/24.0.
> I only tried it on 10.6, though.

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Message #16 received at 5515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
To: Carsten Bormann <cabo <at> tzi.org>,
 5515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.1.92;
	OSX: Emacs gets stuck while wanting to display a dialog box
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:26:04 +0300

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On Apr 3, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Adrian Robert wrote:

> 
> On Apr 3, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> 
>> I have distilled the test case to the attached file.
>> Sorry, I don't know how to reduce this further.
>> At least it's fully reproduceable with various Emacs versions around 23.1/24.0.
>> I only tried it on 10.6, though.
> 
> <dot-emacs-reproduce-5515-1.el>

Hello Carsten,

Thank you for this test case.  I tried the procedure outlined, but could not reproduce the issue on a somewhat older (23.1.90) version of emacs, running 64-bit on 10.6.2.  I guess we have a regression here.  However, I fixed a related dialog problem (bug#5811) with the attached patch.  Would you be able to test it and see if it does anything for the issue in your case?

thanks,
Adrian

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Message #19 received at 5515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Carsten Bormann <cabo <at> tzi.org>
To: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 5515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.1.92;
	OSX: Emacs gets stuck while wanting to display a dialog box
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:36:22 +0200

On Apr 10, 2010, at 08:26, Adrian Robert wrote:

> 
> On Apr 3, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Adrian Robert wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Apr 3, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Carsten Bormann wrote:
>> 
>>> I have distilled the test case to the attached file.
>>> Sorry, I don't know how to reduce this further.
>>> At least it's fully reproduceable with various Emacs versions around 23.1/24.0.
>>> I only tried it on 10.6, though.
>> 
>> <dot-emacs-reproduce-5515-1.el>
> 
> Hello Carsten,
> 
> Thank you for this test case.  I tried the procedure outlined, but could not reproduce the issue on a somewhat older (23.1.90) version of emacs, running 64-bit on 10.6.2.  

I just tried rebuilding Emacs 24.0. from scratch, from the git version 218181d7f636089824e9f876a5d662bf2e350229.
Using the parameters you told me:

setenv CFLAGS '-g'
./configure --with-ns
make -j3
make install

Running this on 10.6.3 (but I previously reproduced this on 10.6.2).

Now it takes three attempts (not two as previously) to open a Ruby file to reproduce the bug.
(This appears to point to some randomness influencing the occurrence of the bug.)


> I guess we have a regression here.  However, I fixed a related dialog problem (bug#5811) with the attached patch.  Would you be able to test it and see if it does anything for the issue in your case?

I then applied the patch, rebuilt (make -j3; make install), and retried.
(I cannot reproduce 5811 with the patched version, but I didn't try before patching; I *can* reproduce 5811 with an earlier 24.0.50 from http://emacsformacosx.com/builds -- the one built 2010-03-30; so this bug now seems to be fixed.)

Unfortunately, the patch makes no difference in the behavior wrt 5515.

BTW, if I evoke the print dialog once (CMD-P), click No, and then try the C-x C-f, I need only two attempts to trigger the bug.  If I evoke the print dialog twice, click No, and then try the C-x C-f, I trigger the bug immediately.  So it looks like the third dialog gets hit, but:
I can evoke the print dialog as much as I want without triggering the bug.

So, it looks like:
-- the bug only happens if dialogs have been active before (used to be once, now twice).
-- the bug only happens if the dialog is evoked in some rather specific circumstances (such as here: from an error handler in the creation of a process that is started from a timer handler).

Looks like this needs more work to properly isolate.

Gruesse, Carsten

Message #22 received at 5515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
To: Carsten Bormann <cabo <at> tzi.org>
Cc: 5515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.1.92;
	OSX: Emacs gets stuck while wanting to display a dialog box
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:29:32 +0300

Thanks, I'm able to reproduce it -- hitting the C-x C-v a second time as you say did the trick.

I'll try to fix it when I get a chance.


-Adrian

Message #25 received at 5515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
To: Carsten Bormann <cabo <at> tzi.org>
Cc: 5515 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.1.92;
	OSX: Emacs gets stuck while wanting to display a dialog box
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:09:16 +0300

BTW, a couple of other comments re: interaction with the print dialog.  With me, the print dialog seems to help things.  If I do the first bad-find-ruby-file, then a Cmd-P, then I can do any number of bad-find-ruby-files without issue.  I don't know why.  Also, the behavior seems 100% deterministic in my case -- same patterns will always lead to the "nirvana" state.  Something inside the state of emacs / NS's event handling has changed, but I have not been able to isolate what.

Message #30 received at 5515-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Carsten Bormann <cabo <at> tzi.org>, 5515-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5515: 23.1.92;
 OSX: Emacs gets stuck while wanting to display a dialog box
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2016 21:59:49 +0100

Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks, I'm able to reproduce it -- hitting the C-x C-v a second time as you say did the trick.
>
> I'll try to fix it when I get a chance.

I can't reproduce this in Emacs 25, so I'm guessing it got fixed a while
back.

I'll close this bug.
-- 
Alan Third

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