GNU bug report logs - #75056
31.0.50; tty-child-frames with server / multiple clients possible hangs

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From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Len Trigg <lenbok <at> gmail.com>, 75056 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#75056: 31.0.50; tty-child-frames with server / multiple clients possible hangs
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2024 12:59:50 +0100

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

>> From: Len Trigg <lenbok <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:43:29 +1300
>> 
>> tty-child-frames does not seem to play well with multiple clients. When we run server-start and allow emacs to
>> have multiple clients (e.g. an initial "emacs -nw" and an
>> "emacsclient -nw"), using a function that utilizes tty-child-frame (such as M-x when vertico-posframe is
>> loaded) in one frame leads the other client to be locked up.
>> 
>> Steps to reproduce:
>> 
>> mkdir ~/emacs-test
>> Copy the attached init.el into ~/emacs-test/
>> emacs -nw --init-directory=~/emacs-test  (the first time will result in packages being installed by elpaca)
>> (in another terminal) emacsclient -nw
>> Do something to invoke the child frame pop up (e.g. C-x b and select a buffer)
>> Switch back to the original emacs
>> Do something to invoke the child frame pop up (e.g. C-x b and select a buffer)
>> Swap to the other terminal, and note that at some point one client will stop responding
>> to user input. (It may take a couple of tries, perhaps with other regular commands interspersed).
>> When one client is locked, swap back to the other terminal and exit the client - the original
>> client will now accept user input.
>> 
>> When a client is locked it *does* accept some input (e.g. C-x C-c will exit the client)
>> 
>> It's possible this is vertico-posframe related, as I can't trigger similar behaviour using transient-posframe.
>
> Gerd, could you perhaps look into this?

Thanks. Will come back to this after the holidays.

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