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28.0.50; GUI emacsclient frames stop accepting keyboard input around recv

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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 28.0.50; GUI emacsclient frames stop accepting keyboard input
 around recv
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 17:14:58 +0100

For quite a while now (several months, possibly a year or more; don't
remember when it started), my graphical emacsclient sessions have been
prone to infrequent and seemingly random freezes where all GUI frames
stop responding to keyboard input, including 'C-g', 'ESC ESC ESC', and
'C-x 5 2'.  Strangely, the frames seem otherwise fine - they respond to
mouse input and are redrawn when I resize them, for example.

This is purely anecdotal, but FWIW it feels like it usually happens
around the time I'm using a memory/subprocess heavy application like
Magit or PDF-Tools.

Unfortunately I normally use an optimised build and don't have a
reproduction recipe, so my usual workaround is to open a TUI emacsclient
frame, save my work, and kill the Emacs daemon.  In fact, I'm sending
this bug report from a TUI frame of the session in question.

The way I run emacsclient is as follows.  In ~/.profile I have:

  export ALTERNATE_EDITOR=              # Lazy emacs daemonisation
  export EDITOR=ecc                     # Used by crontab et al.

where ~/bin/ecc is:

  #!/usr/bin/env sh
  emacsclient --create-frame "$@"

and I set a WM key binding to execute sensible-editor, a Debian script
that in turn runs one of $VISUAL/$EDITOR/editor/etc. in a DWIM fashion.

If I attach GDB to the corresponding 'emacsclient --create-frame'
process, I see the following:

  $ gdb -p 70401
  GNU gdb (Debian 10.1-1.7) 10.1.90.20210103-git
  This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
  Attaching to process 70401
  Reading symbols from /home/blc/.local/bin/emacsclient...
  (No debugging symbols found in /home/blc/.local/bin/emacsclient)
  Reading symbols from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6...
  Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/ec/3a1edbb04c6c2376a0f382429383cb2dfc350e.debug...
  Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...
  Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/32/438eb3b034da54caf58c7a65446639f7cfe274.debug...
  0x00007fd2ed0a2fec in __libc_recv (fd=3, buf=0x7fff77fbe8c0, len=8192, flags=0)
      at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/recv.c:28
  28	../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/recv.c: No such file or directory.
  (gdb) p (char*)buf
  $1 = 0x7fff77fbe8c0 "-emacs-pid 61879"
  (gdb) p errno
  $2 = 25
  (gdb) p strerror(25)
  $3 = 0x7fd2ed1328a0 "Inappropriate ioctl for device"
  (gdb) bt full
  #0  0x00007fd2ed0a2fec in __libc_recv (fd=3, buf=0x7fff77fbe8c0, len=8192, flags=0)
      at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/recv.c:28
  No locals.
  #1  0x000055fe39b7baa6 in main ()
  No symbol table info available.

And lsof says (with the repeated first three columns of output snipped):

  $ lsof -p 70401
   FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF     NODE NAME
  cwd    DIR              254,0   204800 53215234 /home/blc
  rtd    DIR              254,0     4096        2 /
  txt    REG              254,0    37920 53360933 /home/blc/.local/bin/emacsclient
  mem    REG              254,0  1839792  1842920 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.31.so
  mem    REG              254,0   177928  1842753 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.31.so
    0r   CHR                1,3      0t0        4 /dev/null
    1w   REG              254,0    51650 53215248 /home/blc/.xsession-errors
    2w   REG              254,0    51650 53215248 /home/blc/.xsession-errors
    3u  unix 0x000000003c49a2bb      0t0   191265 type=STREAM

If I create another emacsclient frame using the WM key binding, the new
frame displays the *scratch* buffer as usual, except it is also frozen
(does not respond to keyboard input).  Attaching GDB to the new
emacsclient process shows the same as above.

Closing all GUI emacsclient frames and creating new ones makes no
difference; neither does calling make-frame-on-display from a TUI frame:
all created GUI frames are equally frozen.

Some extra, possibly useless info.  My ~/.Xresources says:

  emacs.cursorBlink:                    0
  emacs.dialog*font:                    DejaVu Sans Mono-9
  emacs.font:                           DejaVu Sans Mono-10
  emacs.menu*font:                      DejaVu Sans Mono-9
  emacs.menuBar:                        0
  emacs.pane.menubar.font:              DejaVu Sans Mono-9
  emacs.scrollBar:                      0
  emacs.toolBar:                        0
  emacs.verticalScrollBars:             off

and ~/.xsession-errors contains some repetition of the following
message:

  ###!!! [Parent][RunMessage] Error: Channel closing: too late to
         send/recv, messages will be lost

but there's no timestamp and I doubt it's related to this Emacs session.

Any ideas on what's wrong or how to further debug or fix this?

Thanks,

-- 
Basil

In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 1.16.0, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2021-05-24 built on tia
Repository revision: 19c14be04fec3ae958bd14623ca2f8f84a53915f
Repository branch: master
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Message #8 received at 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48629: 28.0.50;
 GUI emacsclient frames stop accepting keyboard input around recv
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 19:36:37 +0300

> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
> Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 17:14:58 +0100
> 
> Any ideas on what's wrong or how to further debug or fix this?

You are asking why Emacs doesn't read keyboard input when it's stuck
inside 'recv', or you are asking why it becomes stuck in recv for
prolonged times?

Message #11 received at 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48629: 28.0.50; GUI emacsclient frames stop accepting
 keyboard input around recv
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 17:56:24 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
>> Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 17:14:58 +0100
>> 
>> Any ideas on what's wrong or how to further debug or fix this?
>
> You are asking why Emacs doesn't read keyboard input when it's stuck
> inside 'recv',

I assume that's because if recv blocks then Emacs can't get around to
reading keyboard input, but I know very little about these things so
please feel free to correct me or clarify.

> or you are asking why it becomes stuck in recv for prolonged times?

Not just prolonged, but indefinite.  I have yet to find a way to restore
these graphical sessions to normal operation, so for my intents and
purposes they have completely hung, i.e. I presume there's a bug
somewhere that results in recv waiting for a message it will never
receive.

Thanks,

-- 
Basil

Message #14 received at 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48629: 28.0.50; GUI emacsclient frames stop accepting
 keyboard input around recv
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 19:59:00 +0300

> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
> Cc: 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 17:56:24 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
> >> Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 17:14:58 +0100
> >> 
> >> Any ideas on what's wrong or how to further debug or fix this?
> >
> > You are asking why Emacs doesn't read keyboard input when it's stuck
> > inside 'recv',
> 
> I assume that's because if recv blocks then Emacs can't get around to
> reading keyboard input, but I know very little about these things so
> please feel free to correct me or clarify.

No, that's correct, of course.

> > or you are asking why it becomes stuck in recv for prolonged times?
> 
> Not just prolonged, but indefinite.  I have yet to find a way to restore
> these graphical sessions to normal operation, so for my intents and
> purposes they have completely hung, i.e. I presume there's a bug
> somewhere that results in recv waiting for a message it will never
> receive.

OK, that's for our network experts, hope they will chime in soon...

Message #17 received at 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48629: 28.0.50; GUI emacsclient frames stop accepting
 keyboard input around recv
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 18:12:05 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> > or you are asking why it becomes stuck in recv for prolonged times?
>> 
>> Not just prolonged, but indefinite.  I have yet to find a way to restore
>> these graphical sessions to normal operation, so for my intents and
>> purposes they have completely hung, i.e. I presume there's a bug
>> somewhere that results in recv waiting for a message it will never
>> receive.
>
> OK, that's for our network experts, hope they will chime in soon...

Of course, rereading what I just wrote suggests it may be possible to
unblock recv by constructing and sending a message it can act on
somehow, as a temporary band-aid.

I don't yet know how to do that, though, and in the meantime my muscle
memory stupidly killed the hung session, so it'll have to wait until the
next time it happens.

Thanks,

-- 
Basil

Message #20 received at 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48629: 28.0.50; GUI emacsclient frames stop accepting
 keyboard input around recv
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 19:45:53 +0200

On Mai 24 2021, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> or you are asking why it becomes stuck in recv for prolonged times?
>
> Not just prolonged, but indefinite.

But emacsclient is just waiting for the answer from Emacs, so it is
behaving as expected.  If you want emacsclient not to wait for it, use
--no-wait.

> I have yet to find a way to restore these graphical sessions to
> normal operation,

That must be something else, not related to emacsclient.

Andreas.

-- 
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GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510  2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1
"And now for something completely different."

Message #23 received at 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48629: 28.0.50; GUI emacsclient frames stop accepting
 keyboard input around recv
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 19:38:45 +0100

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:

> On Mai 24 2021, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:
>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> or you are asking why it becomes stuck in recv for prolonged times?
>>
>> Not just prolonged, but indefinite.
>
> But emacsclient is just waiting for the answer from Emacs, so it is
> behaving as expected.

Right, I just attached GDB to a non-frozen emacsclient process, and it's
exactly the same story as in the OP.  Sorry for the misleading report.

> If you want emacsclient not to wait for it, use --no-wait.

Sure, but that doesn't address...

>> I have yet to find a way to restore these graphical sessions to
>> normal operation,
>
> That must be something else, not related to emacsclient.

...whatever elusive cause is making my GUI emacsclient frames stop
accepting keyboard input.  Perhaps then the issue lies in the Emacs
keyboard input code, and I'd be able to reproduce the hang even in
non-daemon Emacs sessions?

Any ideas on how to debug that next time it happens?

Thanks,

-- 
Basil

Message #26 received at 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48629: 28.0.50; GUI emacsclient frames stop accepting
 keyboard input around recv
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 21:00:05 +0200

On Mai 24 2021, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:

> ...whatever elusive cause is making my GUI emacsclient frames stop
> accepting keyboard input.

There is no such thing as an emacsclient frame.  They are Emacs frames.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org
GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510  2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1
"And now for something completely different."

Message #29 received at 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48629: 28.0.50; GUI emacsclient frames stop accepting
 keyboard input around recv
Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:25:31 +0100

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie> writes:
> Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:
>> On Mai 24 2021, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:
>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>>> or you are asking why it becomes stuck in recv for prolonged times?
>>> Not just prolonged, but indefinite.
>> But emacsclient is just waiting for the answer from Emacs, so it is
>> behaving as expected.
>
> Right, I just attached GDB to a non-frozen emacsclient process, and it's
> exactly the same story as in the OP.  Sorry for the misleading report.
>>> I have yet to find a way to restore these graphical sessions to
>>> normal operation,
>> That must be something else, not related to emacsclient.
>
> ...whatever elusive cause is making my GUI emacsclient frames stop
> accepting keyboard input.  Perhaps then the issue lies in the Emacs
> keyboard input code, and I'd be able to reproduce the hang even in
> non-daemon Emacs sessions?
>
> Any ideas on how to debug that next time it happens?

It happened again, and this time I attached GDB to the 'emacs --daemon'
process:

Attaching to process 39876
[New LWP 39877]
[New LWP 39878]
[New LWP 39879]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
0x00007f8bc8e3e9c6 in __pselect (nfds=26, readfds=0x7fff028412f0, writefds=0x7fff02841370, exceptfds=0x0, 
    timeout=<optimized out>, sigmask=0x7fff02841140) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pselect.c:48
48	../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pselect.c: No such file or directory.
SIGINT is used by the debugger.
Are you sure you want to change it? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from terminal]
DISPLAY = :0
TERM = xterm-256color
Breakpoint 1 at 0x5585832d279e
.gdbinit:1239: Error in sourced command file:
No symbol "defined_HAVE_X_WINDOWS" in current context.
(gdb) bt full
#0  0x00007f8bc8e3e9c6 in __pselect
    (nfds=26, readfds=0x7fff028412f0, writefds=0x7fff02841370,
     exceptfds=0x0, timeout=<optimized out>, sigmask=0x7fff02841140)
    at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pselect.c:48
        resultvar = 18446744073709551102
        sc_cancel_oldtype = 0
        tval = {
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        }
        data = {
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          ss_len = 8
        }
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#14 0x00005585833c5ca1 in Frecursive_edit ()
#15 0x00005585832db09e in main ()
'backtrace_top' has unknown return type; cast the call to its declared return type

I then entered 'n' a few times followed unfortunately by C-c, which
killed the process (I would have tried 'thread apply all bt full' next).

So it looks like it's actually pselect that's blocking?

-- 
Basil

Message #32 received at 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48629: 28.0.50; GUI emacsclient frames stop accepting
 keyboard input around recv
Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:58:17 +0100

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"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie> writes:

> I then entered 'n' a few times followed unfortunately by C-c, which
> killed the process (I would have tried 'thread apply all bt full' next).
>
> So it looks like it's actually pselect that's blocking?

It happened again, with the attached 'thread apply all bt full' output.

I'll try to keep the session alive this time, in case anyone has any
debugging suggestions.

Thanks,

-- 
Basil

[gdb.txt (text/plain, attachment)]

Message #35 received at 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: bug#48629: 28.0.50; GUI emacsclient frames stop accepting
 keyboard input around recv
Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 20:21:16 +0300

> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:25:31 +0100
> 
> So it looks like it's actually pselect that's blocking?

pselect always blocks, so when you find Emacs stuck in pselect, it's
rarely interesting.  The backtrace just says Emacs is idle waiting for
any input, that's all.  That's normal.

Message #38 received at 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: bug#48629: 28.0.50; GUI emacsclient frames stop accepting
 keyboard input around recv
Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 20:24:21 +0300

> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:58:17 +0100
> 
> Thread 1 (Thread 0x7fb2f78e9040 (LWP 46955) "emacs"):
> #0  0x00007fb2fa7ae9c6 in __pselect (nfds=24, readfds=0x7ffc492342e0, writefds=0x7ffc49234360, exceptfds=0x0, timeout=<optimized out>, sigmask=0x7ffc49234130) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pselect.c:48
>         resultvar = 18446744073709551102
>         sc_cancel_oldtype = 0
>         tval = {tv_sec = 14, tv_nsec = 461936780}
>         data = {ss = 0, ss_len = 8}
> #1  0x000055dfc63615b6 in really_call_select ()
> #2  0x000055dfc6362320 in thread_select ()
> #3  0x000055dfc637ef58 in xg_select ()
> #4  0x000055dfc633f89d in wait_reading_process_output ()
> #5  0x000055dfc62843e8 in read_char ()
> #6  0x000055dfc6286822 in read_key_sequence ()
> #7  0x000055dfc628822c in command_loop_1 ()

This is slightly more interesting, because it shows that timeout for
pselect was 14 sec plus change.  So the interesting question is what
happens after the timeout expires?

IOW, when you find Emacs stuck in pselect, type "finish" and let Emacs
exit the pselect call.  Then step through the code and see what it
does and why it doesn't respond to keyboard input.  Is the keyboard
descriptor in the set of descriptors pselect waits for?

Message #41 received at 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: bug#48629: 28.0.50; GUI emacsclient frames stop accepting
 keyboard input around recv
Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 19:10:30 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:58:17 +0100
>> 
>> Thread 1 (Thread 0x7fb2f78e9040 (LWP 46955) "emacs"):
>> #0 0x00007fb2fa7ae9c6 in __pselect (nfds=24, readfds=0x7ffc492342e0,
>> writefds=0x7ffc49234360, exceptfds=0x0, timeout=<optimized out>,
>> sigmask=0x7ffc49234130) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pselect.c:48
>>         resultvar = 18446744073709551102
>>         sc_cancel_oldtype = 0
>>         tval = {tv_sec = 14, tv_nsec = 461936780}
>>         data = {ss = 0, ss_len = 8}
>> #1  0x000055dfc63615b6 in really_call_select ()
>> #2  0x000055dfc6362320 in thread_select ()
>> #3  0x000055dfc637ef58 in xg_select ()
>> #4  0x000055dfc633f89d in wait_reading_process_output ()
>> #5  0x000055dfc62843e8 in read_char ()
>> #6  0x000055dfc6286822 in read_key_sequence ()
>> #7  0x000055dfc628822c in command_loop_1 ()
>
> This is slightly more interesting, because it shows that timeout for
> pselect was 14 sec plus change.  So the interesting question is what
> happens after the timeout expires?
>
> IOW, when you find Emacs stuck in pselect, type "finish" and let Emacs
> exit the pselect call.

I did this, and it returned zero after a while:

Attaching to process 46955
[New LWP 46956]
[New LWP 46957]
[New LWP 46958]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
0x00007fb2fa7ae9c6 in __pselect (nfds=24, readfds=0x7ffc492342e0, writefds=0x7ffc49234360, exceptfds=0x0, 
    timeout=<optimized out>, sigmask=0x7ffc49234130) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pselect.c:48
48      ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pselect.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) finish
Run till exit from #0  0x00007fb2fa7ae9c6 in __pselect (nfds=24, readfds=0x7ffc492342e0, writefds=0x7ffc49234360, 
    exceptfds=0x0, timeout=<optimized out>, sigmask=0x7ffc49234130) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pselect.c:48
0x000055dfc63615b6 in really_call_select ()
Value returned is $1 = 0

> Then step through the code and see what it does and why it doesn't
> respond to keyboard input.

I guess I need debugging symbols for this, because at this point
step/next progressively and slowly climb frames, without any indication
of the surrounding code or values (GDB maintains that it's in pselect.c
the whole time).

> Is the keyboard descriptor in the set of descriptors pselect waits
> for?

How do I determine what the keyboard descriptor is?

Thanks,

-- 
Basil

Message #44 received at 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: bug#48629: 28.0.50; GUI emacsclient frames stop accepting
 keyboard input around recv
Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 21:59:44 +0300

> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
> Cc: schwab <at> linux-m68k.org,  48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 19:10:30 +0100
> 
> > IOW, when you find Emacs stuck in pselect, type "finish" and let Emacs
> > exit the pselect call.
> 
> I did this, and it returned zero after a while:

So it found no input available.

> > Is the keyboard descriptor in the set of descriptors pselect waits
> > for?
> 
> How do I determine what the keyboard descriptor is?

Look at fd_callback_info[desc].flags for values of DESC from zero to
max_desc, and see if any of them have the FOR_READ and KEYBOARD_FD
flags set.  Then see whether those descriptors, which have those flags
set, have their bit set in readfds set passed to pselect.

Message #47 received at 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: bug#48629: 28.0.50; GUI emacsclient frames stop accepting
 keyboard input around recv
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2021 14:18:40 +0100

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"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
>>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>>> Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:58:17 +0100
>>> 
>> Then step through the code and see what it does and why it doesn't
>> respond to keyboard input.
>
> I guess I need debugging symbols for this, because at this point
> step/next progressively and slowly climb frames, without any indication
> of the surrounding code or values (GDB maintains that it's in pselect.c
> the whole time).

I'm now running with '-Og -ggdb'.  I didn't have time to investigate
further the last two times the freeze happened, but I did save the
attached output of 'thread apply all bt full' for posterity.

-- 
Basil

[gdb.txt.gz (application/gzip, attachment)]

Message #50 received at 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48629: 28.0.50; GUI emacsclient frames stop accepting
 keyboard input around recv
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 12:24:35 +0200

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie> writes:

> For quite a while now (several months, possibly a year or more; don't
> remember when it started), my graphical emacsclient sessions have been
> prone to infrequent and seemingly random freezes where all GUI frames
> stop responding to keyboard input, including 'C-g', 'ESC ESC ESC', and
> 'C-x 5 2'. 

Are you still seeing this with the current Emacs trunk?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #55 received at 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48629: 28.0.50; GUI emacsclient frames stop accepting
 keyboard input around recv
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 06:54:50 +0300

Lars Ingebrigtsen [2022-07-15 12:24 +0200] wrote:

> "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie> writes:
>
>> For quite a while now (several months, possibly a year or more; don't
>> remember when it started), my graphical emacsclient sessions have been
>> prone to infrequent and seemingly random freezes where all GUI frames
>> stop responding to keyboard input, including 'C-g', 'ESC ESC ESC', and
>> 'C-x 5 2'. 
>
> Are you still seeing this with the current Emacs trunk?

I think it's happened maybe once in the last few months, and not
particularly recently, but I've been largely AFK since September, so
maybe I've just been lucky.  Feel free to close (or merge) this, either
in favour of bug#55726, or until I have more information to report.

Thanks,

-- 
Basil

Message #58 received at 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: 48629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48629: 28.0.50; GUI emacsclient frames stop accepting
 keyboard input around recv
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 11:25:23 +0200

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie> writes:

> I think it's happened maybe once in the last few months, and not
> particularly recently, but I've been largely AFK since September, so
> maybe I've just been lucky.  Feel free to close (or merge) this, either
> in favour of bug#55726, or until I have more information to report.

OK; I'm closing this bug report, then.  Please reopen (or file a new
bug report) if the problem reappears.

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