Re: Need help debugging Emacs: emacsclient will not draw its contents sometimes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 09:47:59 -0700
> From: Jon Dufresne <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Once the issue arises, if I execute "emacsclient -c", "emacsclient -c
> filename.txt", "emacsclient -t", or "emacsclient -t filename.txt" from
> a new gnome-terminal the frame opens and display correctly as
> expected. It appears that only the frames created by mercurial
> commands regularly have the issue, and then only sometimes.

I guess the question is now what does Mercurial do, exactly, to invoke
emacsclient.  Can you look at the command line Mercurial passes to it,
for example?  Perhaps also log the communications between emacsclient
and the server on the Emacs side, and see what is passed there.

The screenshot you posted seems like the frame was never created
completely, so Emacs doesn't think it should be displaying any text
yet.  I wonder why that happens.

> If I execute the "emacsclient -c" from a separate terminal (as
> mentioned above), then retry the mercurial command, the next frame
> displays correctly as expected. It seems this sequence somehow gets
> around the issue.

We need to figure out what kind of "issue" this works around.