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24.3; emacs stops responding to keyboard after closing frame

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From: "David J. Biesack" <David.Biesack <at> sas.com>
To: <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 24.3; emacs stops responding to keyboard after closing frame
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:51:30 -0400

Sometimes after closing a frame, emacs ignores all key events in remaining open frames
after explicitly clicking in them to set point. Ctrl-g does nothing. I can't type anything in those frames.

This occurs intermittently. However, I have RMAIL set up to open reply
messages in a new frame. When I send those messages, message-send-and-exit
closes that message frame via a function I bind:

       (setq message-exit-actions (cons 'message-delete-frame message-exit-actions)))

Even though emacs is not responding to key events, I can click 
in emacs windows, move point, invoke menus, etc. emacsclient
works so I can even do

  emacsclient -e '(top-level)'

(I can open a X console and type there; it is only emacs that loses keyboard input))

Such emacs lisp is handled via emacsclient, but keys do not work in my frames.

I eventually use emacsclient to save all buffers and exit emacs "gracefully". 

However, this has happened several times, so it is not a fluke;
I now have to restart emacs almost daily. (I can disable frame
creation for new messages, but I'd rather not; this helps me
keep track of open *message* buffers)


In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.7)
 of 2014-03-07 on lamiak, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11501000
System Description:     Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Configured using:
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Recent input:
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> M-x r e p o r t - e m SPC 
<return>

Recent messages:
Loading esh (compiled; note, source file is newer)...done
Loading xdg-email...done
Loading gnu/linux (compiled; note, source file is newer)...done
loaded optional library gnu/linux
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loaded optional library d77781
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For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

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-- 
David J. Biesack | Principal API Architect | SAS Technology Office | @davidbiesack | www.sas.com

Message #8 received at 18102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Marshall <robert <at> capuchin.co.uk>
To: "David J. Biesack" <David.Biesack <at> sas.com>
Cc: 18102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18102: 24.3;
 emacs stops responding to keyboard after closing frame
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:22:27 +0100

On Thu, Jul 24 2014, "David J. Biesack" <David.Biesack <at> sas.com> wrote:

> Sometimes after closing a frame, emacs ignores all key events in remaining open frames
> after explicitly clicking in them to set point. Ctrl-g does nothing. I can't type anything in those frames.
>
> This occurs intermittently. However, I have RMAIL set up to open reply
> messages in a new frame. When I send those messages, message-send-and-exit
> closes that message frame via a function I bind:
>
>        (setq message-exit-actions (cons 'message-delete-frame message-exit-actions)))
>

I'm also seeing this behaviour - in my case I'm using VM to send email
and that opens a frame to compose the email and closes it on sending and
that's where emacs fails to respond to the keyboard for me as well.

>
> In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.7)
>  of 2014-03-07 on lamiak, modified by Debian
> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11501000
> System Description:     Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
>

I'm also using Ubuntu 14.04 (and using a GTK+ emacs build from bzr) and have
only seen the problem since upgrading to 14.04.

Robert

Message #11 received at 18102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Robert Marshall <robert <at> capuchin.co.uk>
Cc: "David J. Biesack" <David.Biesack <at> sas.com>, 18102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18102: 24.3;
 emacs stops responding to keyboard after closing frame
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:21:40 -0400

severity 18102 important
thanks

>> Sometimes after closing a frame, emacs ignores all key events in
>> remaining open frames after explicitly clicking in them to set
>> point. Ctrl-g does nothing. I can't type anything in those frames.

Could you run Emacs under GDB (see .../etc/DEBUG for some instructions)
to see what it's doing while it's not responsive?

You can also try (setq debug-on-event 'sigusr2) and then do a
"kill -USR2 <emacspid>" from the shell, to see if it gets you
a Lisp-level backtrace.


        Stefan

Message #16 received at 18102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: Robert Marshall <robert <at> capuchin.co.uk>, 18102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 "David J. Biesack" <David.Biesack <at> sas.com>
Subject: Re: bug#18102: 24.3;
 emacs stops responding to keyboard after closing frame
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 16:48:27 +0100

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

>>> Sometimes after closing a frame, emacs ignores all key events in
>>> remaining open frames after explicitly clicking in them to set
>>> point. Ctrl-g does nothing. I can't type anything in those frames.
>
> Could you run Emacs under GDB (see .../etc/DEBUG for some instructions)
> to see what it's doing while it's not responsive?
>
> You can also try (setq debug-on-event 'sigusr2) and then do a
> "kill -USR2 <emacspid>" from the shell, to see if it gets you
> a Lisp-level backtrace.

More information was requested, but no response was given within a few
months, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the problem still exists,
please reopen this bug report.

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

Message #21 received at 18102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Marshall <robert <at> capuchin.co.uk>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: "David J. Biesack" <David.Biesack <at> sas.com>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>, 18102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18102: 24.3;
 emacs stops responding to keyboard after closing frame
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:46:02 +0000

Lars Ingebrigtsen writes:
 > Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
 > 
 > >>> Sometimes after closing a frame, emacs ignores all key events in
 > >>> remaining open frames after explicitly clicking in them to set
 > >>> point. Ctrl-g does nothing. I can't type anything in those frames.
 > >
 > > Could you run Emacs under GDB (see .../etc/DEBUG for some instructions)
 > > to see what it's doing while it's not responsive?
 > >
 > > You can also try (setq debug-on-event 'sigusr2) and then do a
 > > "kill -USR2 <emacspid>" from the shell, to see if it gets you
 > > a Lisp-level backtrace.
 > 
 > More information was requested, but no response was given within a few
 > months, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the problem still exists,
 > please reopen this bug report.
 > 

Go ahead and close - I've not seen this bug for ages!

Robert
-- 
Robert Marshall               twitter: @rajm

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