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29.0.50; Mouse wheel stops working

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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.0.50; Mouse wheel stops working
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 00:53:12 +0200

Hello,

I have been seeing this for a while now (maybe two weeks or a bit more,
not sure when it started exactly):

After starting Emacs everything is good.  But after a while, the mouse
wheel stops working.  That is, mouse-4 and mouse-5, with and without
modifiers, are not recognized.  In all buffers and windows, scroll-bar,
mode line, everywhere.  C-h k shows nothing because no event is
registered.

When that happens the mouse wheel still works normally in other X
windows or the window manager or in a newly started Emacs session.

This is under X and Openbox.

TIA,

Michael.


In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.24, cairo version 1.16.0)
 of 2022-08-06 built on drachen
Repository revision: fe801e359f71f12843c8d0ce545473815840dc89
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12011000
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)

Configured features:
CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON
LCMS2 LIBSELINUX LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP
SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS WEBP X11 XDBE XIM XINPUT2
XPM GTK3 ZLIB

Message #8 received at 57020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 57020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57020: 29.0.50; Mouse wheel stops working
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 09:56:45 +0800

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I have been seeing this for a while now (maybe two weeks or a bit more,
> not sure when it started exactly):
>
> After starting Emacs everything is good.  But after a while, the mouse
> wheel stops working.  That is, mouse-4 and mouse-5, with and without
> modifiers, are not recognized.  In all buffers and windows, scroll-bar,
> mode line, everywhere.  C-h k shows nothing because no event is
> registered.
>
> When that happens the mouse wheel still works normally in other X
> windows or the window manager or in a newly started Emacs session.
>
> This is under X and Openbox.

mouse-4/mouse-5 or wheel-up/wheel-down?

Please be clear here, since they are handled separately under XInput 2.

Message #11 received at 57020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 57020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57020: 29.0.50; Mouse wheel stops working
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 04:07:37 +0200

Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> mouse-4/mouse-5 or wheel-up/wheel-down?
>
> Please be clear here, since they are handled separately under XInput
> 2.

You are right, the force of habit: When the events are considered they
are named "wheel-up/wheel-down" - I'm sorry.

Michael.

Message #14 received at 57020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 57020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57020: 29.0.50; Mouse wheel stops working
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 10:47:28 +0800

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> writes:

> Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> mouse-4/mouse-5 or wheel-up/wheel-down?
>>
>> Please be clear here, since they are handled separately under XInput
>> 2.
>
> You are right, the force of habit: When the events are considered they
> are named "wheel-up/wheel-down" - I'm sorry.
>
> Michael.

Could you instrument this chunk of xterm.c:

		      /* See the comment on top of x_cache_xi_devices
			 for more details on how scroll wheel movement
			 is reported on XInput 2.  */
		      delta = x_get_scroll_valuator_delta (dpyinfo, device,
							   i, *values, &val);
		      values++;

by adding:

		      printf ("%g\n", delta);

afterwards?  Then, please see if any (and what) values are printed once
the mouse wheel stops working.

Message #17 received at 57020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 57020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57020: 29.0.50; Mouse wheel stops working
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 03:58:21 +0200

Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> 		      printf ("%g\n", delta);
>
> afterwards?  Then, please see if any (and what) values are printed once
> the mouse wheel stops working.

Short answer: nothing is printed.

Before the issue starts happening, I see -1 and +1 for each wheel
"click" and lots of 1.79769e+308 values when moving the mouse.

Once scrolling stopped working, mouse wheel turning leads to no output
any more (but the 1.79769e+308 values are still printed).

What I was also noticing: when turning the mouse wheel over the scroll
bar, there is a visual feedback: it looks like the scroll bar would lead
to a scroll (the bar moves), but scrolling is not happening, the buffer
text stands still.  Also that is happening without output for DELTA.

Michael.

Message #20 received at 57020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 57020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57020: 29.0.50; Mouse wheel stops working
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 10:36:23 +0800

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> writes:

> Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> 		      printf ("%g\n", delta);
>>
>> afterwards?  Then, please see if any (and what) values are printed once
>> the mouse wheel stops working.
>
> Short answer: nothing is printed.
>
> Before the issue starts happening, I see -1 and +1 for each wheel
> "click" and lots of 1.79769e+308 values when moving the mouse.
>
> Once scrolling stopped working, mouse wheel turning leads to no output
> any more (but the 1.79769e+308 values are still printed).
>
> What I was also noticing: when turning the mouse wheel over the scroll
> bar, there is a visual feedback: it looks like the scroll bar would lead
> to a scroll (the bar moves), but scrolling is not happening, the buffer
> text stands still.  Also that is happening without output for DELTA.
>
> Michael.

Hmm, thanks.  Could you also add the following instrumentation to that
code, like such:

	      device = xi_device_from_id (dpyinfo, xev->deviceid);

	      if (!device)
		{
		  fprintf (stderr, "device not found, %d\n", xev->deviceid);
		  goto XI_OTHER;
		}

and see if that is ever printed when wheel movement stops working?

Message #23 received at 57020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 57020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57020: 29.0.50; Mouse wheel stops working
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 02:13:17 +0200

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Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:


> Hmm, thanks.  Could you also add the following instrumentation to that
> code, like such: [...]

You mean like this?

[0001-Instrument-xterm.c.patch (text/x-diff, inline)]

diff --git a/src/xterm.c b/src/xterm.c
index 36797bc0ab..88cd566cd3 100644
--- a/src/xterm.c
+++ b/src/xterm.c
@@ -20465,7 +20465,10 @@ handle_one_xevent (struct x_display_info *dpyinfo,
 	      device = xi_device_from_id (dpyinfo, xev->deviceid);

 	      if (!device)
-		goto XI_OTHER;
+		{
+		  fprintf (stderr, "device not found, %d\n", xev->deviceid);
+		  goto XI_OTHER;
+		}

 #ifdef HAVE_XINPUT2_2
 	      if (xev->flags & XIPointerEmulated)
--
2.30.2

[Message part 3 (text/plain, inline)]

No, I got no output after the mouse wheel had stopped working.

But I have a new data point: there seems to be a relation with switching
to the X session of a different user.  I sometimes have several X
sessions running a the same time.  Some minutes ago the wheel had
stopped working.  I switched to the X session at C-M-f2 and then back to
here (i.e. C-M-f1) and the mouse wheel started to work again.

I'm not saying that there is a connection between the failure and other
X sessions, however.  AFAIR, when the mouse wheel stopped working
yesterday there was only one X session running.  Maybe closing the
laptop (suspend to RAM) sometimes triggers this, but that's just
guessing.  That switching X sessions healed the issue didn't seem
incidental, however.  I had the feeling that I should try that, and I
had been using the mouse wheel as first action after switching the X
session back.

But I had been playing stuntrally with the joystick before I noticed the
mouse wheel stopped working.  Maybe plugging in the Joystick is related
again....dunno if that guessing helps you, if not, I'm sorry for the
noise.

Michael.

Message #26 received at 57020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 57020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57020: 29.0.50; Mouse wheel stops working
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 02:24:53 +0200

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> writes:

> again....dunno if that guessing helps you, if not, I'm sorry for the
> noise.

I tested it a bit, and it's really that simple: plugging in or out the
Joystick reliably breaks the mouse wheel in Emacs, and C-M-f2 and back
reliably unbreaks it (this time there was only the tty2 Linux console,
no second X session).

HTH,

Michael.

Message #29 received at 57020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 57020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57020: 29.0.50; Mouse wheel stops working
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 08:48:14 +0800

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> writes:

> I tested it a bit, and it's really that simple: plugging in or out the
> Joystick reliably breaks the mouse wheel in Emacs, and C-M-f2 and back
> reliably unbreaks it (this time there was only the tty2 Linux console,
> no second X session).

Hmm, very odd.  I will try to figure out why this is, thanks.

Message #32 received at 57020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 57020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57020: 29.0.50; Mouse wheel stops working
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 11:07:35 +0800

Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> Hmm, very odd.  I will try to figure out why this is, thanks.

Should be fixed now.

Message #35 received at 57020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 57020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57020: 29.0.50; Mouse wheel stops working
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 05:48:40 +0200

Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> > Hmm, very odd.  I will try to figure out why this is, thanks.
>
> Should be fixed now.

Indeed, thank you very much!

I quickly tested the recipe with the joystick, and it works as expected
now.  No new problems as well (but I tested only one minute so far).

Thanks again,

Michael.

Message #40 received at 57020-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 57020-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57020: 29.0.50; Mouse wheel stops working
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 13:11:09 +0800

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> writes:

> Indeed, thank you very much!
>
> I quickly tested the recipe with the joystick, and it works as expected
> now.  No new problems as well (but I tested only one minute so far).
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Michael.

Any time, thanks for testing.  I'm closing this bug.

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