Re: emacs daemon exits when emacsclient connects to it again

[Liang Wang]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Giorgos Keramidas
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:11:45 +0800, Liang Wang <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Emacs daemon exits or crashes when emacsclient connect to it again.
>> Below is my command line operation.
>>
>> address@hidden ~]$ emacs --daemon -Q
>> ("emacs" "-Q")
>> Starting Emacs daemon.
>> address@hidden ~]$ pgrep -l emacs
>> 2813 emacs
>> address@hidden ~]$ emacsclient -c    # succeed to connect
>> Waiting for Emacs...
>> address@hidden ~]$ pgrep -l emacs
>> 2813 emacs
>> address@hidden ~]$ emacsclient -c    # fail to connect
>> Waiting for Emacs...
>> address@hidden ~]$ pgrep -l emacs
>> address@hidden ~]$
>
> Which version of Emacs are you running?  Can you attach to the
> background process using gdb and see where it crashes?
>
>

GNU Emacs 23.0.90.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.7) of
2009-02-09 on localhost.localdomain

I am not familiar with gdb.  Below is the output of gdb session.  It
seems that something is wrong when emacsclient connects to daemon
initially.

(gdb) attach 2970
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Couldn't write registers: Input/output error.
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00aa1b60 in _dl_debug_state () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#1  0x00a99473 in _dl_map_object_from_fd () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#2  0x00a9a363 in _dl_map_object () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#3  0x00aa567d in dl_open_worker () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#4  0x00aa0db6 in _dl_catch_error () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#5  0x00aa4f5e in _dl_open () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#6  0x00c57c2c in dlopen_doit () from /lib/libdl.so.2
#7  0x00aa0db6 in _dl_catch_error () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#8  0x00c5805c in _dlerror_run () from /lib/libdl.so.2
#9  0x00c57b61 in dlopen@@GLIBC_2.1 () from /lib/libdl.so.2
#10 0x009f7547 in g_module_open () from /lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0
#11 0x05e8625c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#12 0x009de840 in g_type_module_use () from /lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#13 0x05e86147 in gtk_theme_engine_get () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#14 0x05e0a855 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#15 0x05e0b3e8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#16 0x05e0b9f7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#17 0x05e0bbac in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#18 0x05e0bda8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#19 0x05e0c167 in gtk_rc_reparse_all_for_settings ()
   from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#20 0x05e290d2 in gtk_settings_get_for_screen ()
   from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
#21 0x05dd75e2 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#22 0x009c8e8c in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__OBJECT ()
   from /lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#23 0x009bc1fb in g_closure_invoke () from /lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#24 0x009d2655 in ?? () from /lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#25 0x009d3d6c in g_signal_emit_valist () from /lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#26 0x009d408d in g_signal_emit_by_name () from /lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#27 0x0054057a in gdk_display_open () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#28 0x005194b5 in gdk_display_open_default_libgtk_only ()
   from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#29 0x05dbdf4f in gtk_init_check () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#30 0x05dbdf84 in gtk_init () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#31 0x080de89e in x_term_init (display_name=138116043, xrm_option=0x0,
    resource_name=0xa0982a4 "emacs") at xterm.c:10041
#32 0x080e9e4a in Fx_open_connection (display=138116043, xrm_string=137952577,
    must_succeed=137952577) at xfns.c:4152
#33 0x0819130b in Ffuncall (nargs=4, args=0xbfec1550) at eval.c:3050
#34 0x081c61b0 in Fbyte_code (bytestr=137094467, vector=137094484,
    maxdepth=<value optimized out>) at bytecode.c:678
#35 0x08193103 in funcall_lambda (fun=137094436, nargs=0,
    arg_vector=0xbfec1694) at eval.c:3231
#36 0x0819102b in Ffuncall (nargs=1, args=0xbfec1690) at eval.c:3101
#37 0x081c61b0 in Fbyte_code (bytestr=136883131, vector=136883148,
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
    maxdepth=<value optimized out>) at bytecode.c:678
#38 0x08193103 in funcall_lambda (fun=136883076, nargs=2,
    arg_vector=0xbfec17c4) at eval.c:3231
#39 0x0819102b in Ffuncall (nargs=3, args=0xbfec17c0) at eval.c:3101
#40 0x081c61b0 in Fbyte_code (bytestr=138933147, vector=139885484,
    maxdepth=<value optimized out>) at bytecode.c:678
#41 0x08193103 in funcall_lambda (fun=139885724, nargs=3,
    arg_vector=0xbfec1904) at eval.c:3231
#42 0x0819102b in Ffuncall (nargs=4, args=0xbfec1900) at eval.c:3101
#43 0x081c61b0 in Fbyte_code (bytestr=138911675, vector=139498700,
    maxdepth=<value optimized out>) at bytecode.c:678
#44 0x08192ca4 in Feval (form=140780757) at eval.c:2381
#45 0x08193831 in internal_lisp_condition_case (var=138423401,
    bodyform=140780757, handlers=140809693) at eval.c:1456
#46 0x081c6ada in Fbyte_code (bytestr=138926347, vector=138391620,
    maxdepth=<value optimized out>) at bytecode.c:868
#47 0x08192ca4 in Feval (form=140785629) at eval.c:2381
#48 0x0819070a in internal_catch (tag=168375953, func=0x81927c0 <Feval>,
    arg=140785629) at eval.c:1247
#49 0x081c6b20 in Fbyte_code (bytestr=138926427, vector=138391780,
    maxdepth=<value optimized out>) at bytecode.c:853
#50 0x08193103 in funcall_lambda (fun=139503164, nargs=2,
    arg_vector=0xbfec1e64) at eval.c:3231
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
#51 0x0819102b in Ffuncall (nargs=3, args=0xbfec1e60) at eval.c:3101
#52 0x08192652 in Fapply (nargs=2, args=0xbfec1eb0) at eval.c:2532
#53 0x081927a4 in apply1 (fn=168375225, arg=140895629) at eval.c:2796
#54 0x081c999d in read_process_output_call (fun_and_args=140895637)
    at process.c:5149
#55 0x081903f6 in internal_condition_case_1 (
    bfun=0x81c9980 <read_process_output_call>, arg=140895637,
    handlers=137995705, hfun=0x81c99a0 <read_process_output_error_handler>)
    at eval.c:1559
#56 0x081c92db in read_process_output (proc=141290092,
    channel=<value optimized out>) at process.c:5338
#57 0x081cd831 in wait_reading_process_output (time_limit=0, microsecs=0,
    read_kbd=-1, do_display=1, wait_for_cell=137952577, wait_proc=0x0,
    just_wait_proc=0) at process.c:4991
#58 0x08130439 in kbd_buffer_get_event () at keyboard.c:4078
#59 read_char (commandflag=1, nmaps=2, maps=0xbfec3630, prev_event=137952577,
    used_mouse_menu=0xbfec36e4, end_time=0x0) at keyboard.c:3038
#60 0x08132151 in read_key_sequence (keybuf=0xbfec3794, bufsize=30,
    prompt=137952577, dont_downcase_last=0, can_return_switch_frame=1,
    fix_current_buffer=1) at keyboard.c:9415
#61 0x08134274 in command_loop_1 () at keyboard.c:1640
#62 0x08190630 in internal_condition_case (bfun=0x8134090 <command_loop_1>,
    handlers=137995705, hfun=0x812e8f0 <cmd_error>) at eval.c:1511
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
#63 0x0812de45 in command_loop_2 () at keyboard.c:1357
#64 0x0819070a in internal_catch (tag=137991729,
    func=0x812de20 <command_loop_2>, arg=137952577) at eval.c:1247
#65 0x0812e73f in command_loop () at keyboard.c:1336
#66 0x0812eacb in recursive_edit_1 () at keyboard.c:951
#67 0x0812ec14 in Frecursive_edit () at keyboard.c:1013
#68 0x0812321f in main (argc=3, argv=0xbfec3e14) at emacs.c:1852
(gdb) c
Continuing.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000003 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00000003 in ?? ()
#1  0x00000007 in ?? ()
#2  0xbfec0490 in ?? ()
#3  0x009b025c in freopen64 () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4  0x009b025c in freopen64 () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#5  0x00000004 in ?? ()
#6  0xbfec0418 in ?? ()
#7  0x00928c0a in g_string_append_vprintf () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
(gdb)