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24.3.50; can't paste into emacs

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From: Tom Tromey <tromey <at> redhat.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3.50; can't paste into emacs
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:29:09 -0600

I previously reported this against master.
Since then I've switched back to the emacs-24 branch.

I built from emacs-24 the other day:

    barimba. bzr log |head
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    revno: 116850
    fixes bug: http://debbugs.gnu.org/17057
    [...]

I'm using x86-64 Fedora 20.

If I try to copy some text in a terminal and then paste it into Emacs,
Emacs locks up and then eventually gives the error:

    x-get-selection: Timed out waiting for reply from selection owner

Pasting between all other applications works fine.




In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.6)
 of 2014-03-24 on barimba
Repository revision: 116850 dgutov <at> yandex.ru-20140324085356-tbzdn8tng8iljdx9
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Message #10 received at 17101 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 17101 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17101: 24.3.50; can't paste into emacs
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:58:46 +0200

> From: Tom Tromey <tromey <at> redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:29:09 -0600
> 
> 
> I previously reported this against master.
> Since then I've switched back to the emacs-24 branch.
> 
> I built from emacs-24 the other day:
> 
>     barimba. bzr log |head
>     ------------------------------------------------------------
>     revno: 116850
>     fixes bug: http://debbugs.gnu.org/17057
>     [...]
> 
> I'm using x86-64 Fedora 20.
> 
> If I try to copy some text in a terminal and then paste it into Emacs,
> Emacs locks up and then eventually gives the error:
> 
>     x-get-selection: Timed out waiting for reply from selection owner
> 
> Pasting between all other applications works fine.

Sounds like a duplicate of 16737.  See

  http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16737#17

Message #17 received at 17101 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: 16737 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 17101 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Alex Bennée <alex.bennee <at> linaro.org>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
 Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook <at> yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: bug#16737: Timed out waiting for reply from selection owner
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:53:49 -0700

Jan> If it times out, it is because we don't get the PropertyNotify we
Jan> expect.  There is some TRACE one can turn on in xselect.c by
Jan> defining TRACE_SELECTION.

FWIW, this bug bites me enough that I have basically had to stop pasting
into Emacs.  This is no good!

However, I still don't know the sequence to recreate the bug.  For
instance it didn't happen right away with "emacs -Q".  All I know is
that it happens to me in basically any normal emacs session I try, and
that sometimes it works for a while before breaking.


I did do a little debugging tonight.  One thing I found is that the
correct selection notify event does arrive.  I set a breakpoint in
x_handle_selection_notify and I see a matching event come in.

However, the event arrives after x_get_foreign_selection returns.  I
think this is what is unexpected -- the event ought to be processed by
the call to wait_reading_process_output there.

When the event does arrive, if I go up the stack I see gobble_input.  I
don't know this area well but maybe it would work to either disable the
SIGIO code, or to call gobble_input before calling
wait_reading_process_output.

If I debug "emacs -Q" and paste, what I see is that
x_get_foreign_selection calls unblock_input and that this causes the
event to be read.  I don't know why this isn't done in the failing case.

Any suggestions?  I can't promise much but maybe I could try something
out.

Tom

Message #20 received at 17101 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Torsten Bronger <bronger <at> physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To: <17101 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#16737: Timed out waiting for reply from selection owner
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:45:25 +0100

Hallöchen!

FWIW, I've experienced this hanging/timeout for many months when
using Emacs with "ssh -X".  A fresh Emacs works for a couple of
minutes or hours, and then this problem occurs and wouldn't go away
until I restart Emacs.  I've thought it was due to a connection
quality problem (broken pipe or whatever) because I had "good"
months and "bad" months.

It has never occured right from the start.  The first pastes always
work.

By the way, a "currupted" Emacs also takes longer to shutdown.  It
says "Saving clipboard to X clipboard manager..." for a couple of
seconds instead of for a fraction of a second.

Tschö,
Torsten.

-- 
Torsten Bronger    Jabber ID: torsten.bronger <at> jabber.rwth-aachen.de
                                  or http://bronger-jmp.appspot.com

Message #27 received at 17101 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 16737 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 17026 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 17172 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 
 19320 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey <at> redhat.com>, Mitchel Humpherys <mitch.special <at> gmail.com>,
 Sujith Manoharan <sujith <at> msujith.org>, 17101 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Patch for "Yank causes hang" bug in Emacs
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 12:08:41 -0700

I installed a patch for this bug, as Emacs master commit
0592cefd03f1de2f04b721d07a16e6e0a9e48f73; could you please give it a try?  Thanks.

Message #36 received at 17101 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mitchel Humpherys <mitch.special <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey <at> redhat.com>, 17101 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 17172 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 16737 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 17026 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 19320 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Sujith Manoharan <sujith <at> msujith.org>
Subject: Re: Patch for "Yank causes hang" bug in Emacs
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:39:18 -0700

On Fri, Jul 17 2015 at 12:08:41 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> I installed a patch for this bug, as Emacs master commit
> 0592cefd03f1de2f04b721d07a16e6e0a9e48f73; could you please give it a try?  Thanks.

I haven't seen this since moving to Emacs from git a week ago, so the
bug is definitely gone.  I assume it was your patch.  Thanks!

-- 
Mitch

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