Bug 470159 - emacs hangs and outputs error info when dragging mouse 1
Summary: emacs hangs and outputs error info when dragging mouse 1
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: emacs
Version: 9
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Novotny
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-11-06 02:22 UTC by Dave Blackburn
Modified: 2013-01-10 04:54 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-07-14 14:07:32 UTC
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Description Dave Blackburn 2008-11-06 02:22:34 UTC
Description of problem:

Emacs hangs and outputs an error message:
Locking assertion failure.  Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib64/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0x317640097c]
...
when dragging to select text in a buffer.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

emacs-el-22.2-5.fc9.x86_64
emacs-22.2-5.fc9.x86_64
emacs-common-22.2-5.fc9.x86_64


How reproducible:

On x86_64 Fedora system:
emacs -q &
and drag to select text.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emacs -q &
2. drag to select text in initially displayed buffer.
3.
  
Actual results:

Emacs hangs and displays error message

Expected results:

No hang, no error message, text to be selected


Additional info:

Full error message is:
Locking assertion failure.  Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib64/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0x317640097c]
#1 /usr/lib64/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_lock+0x17) [0x3176400af7]
#2 /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6 [0x317604c610]
#3 /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6(XFlush+0x12) [0x3176024d82]
#4 /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0(gdk_display_flush+0x98) [0x318044676a]
#5 /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 [0x318043d1e5]
#6 /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0(gdk_window_process_all_updates+0xf9) [0x318043d2fc]
#7 emacs [0x48cf93]
#8 emacs [0x48d062]
#9 emacs [0x48d940]
#10 emacs [0x48d9ad]
#11 /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6(_XError+0xf4) [0x3176045524]
#12 /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6 [0x317604cf5f]
#13 /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6(_XReply+0x18a) [0x317604d30a]
#14 /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6(XSync+0x63) [0x3176040db3]
#15 emacs [0x48cf9d]
#16 emacs [0x4a2fbc]
#17 emacs [0x530937]
#18 emacs [0x55ec2a]
#19 emacs [0x532a05]

uname -a
Linux cs5 2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 1 06:06:21 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

System has almost all current rpms installed.
yum check-update
kernel.x86_64                            2.6.26.6-79.fc9        updates-newkey  
kernel-headers.x86_64                    2.6.26.6-79.fc9        updates-newkey  
kerneloops.x86_64                        0.12-1.fc9             updates-newkey

Comment 1 Dave Blackburn 2008-11-06 03:57:44 UTC
Later I observed several emacs processes running w/o a display window:
11254 root      20   0  131m  24m 9876 R 25.3  1.2 182:08.06 emacs                                  
11469 root      20   0  131m  24m 9856 R 25.0  1.2 180:41.90 emacs                                  
13335 trudy     20   0  131m  24m 9836 R 25.0  1.2  62:09.06 emacs                                  
13392 trudy     20   0  131m  24m 9820 R 25.0  1.2  48:09.37 emacs                                  
13589 trudy     20   0  131m  24m 9820 R 25.0  1.2  45:35.75 emacs                                  
13596 trudy     20   0  127m  20m 9800 R 25.0  1.0  45:11.26 emacs                                  
11578 root      20   0  131m  24m 9864 R 24.6  1.2 174:09.46 emacs                                  
13538 root      20   0  130m  23m 9816 R 24.6  1.2  47:59.00 emacs                                  

I killed most of these processes with the default kill signal.
While doing so, two processes changed state to:
ps -Al | grep emacs
0 S   511 13335     1 28  80   0 - 33599 futex_ pts/0    01:02:53 emacs
0 S     0 13538     1 25  80   0 - 33486 futex_ pts/1    00:48:43 emacs
but were only killable using kill -9

Earlier, when the emacs processes were hung so c-x c-c was not usable, I had used the window manager (fvwm) destroy op to kill emacs.
That got rid of the emacs windows but apparently left a process still running.
It looks like one process was left for each test I ran.

I then ran emacs -q & followed by lsof -p <process>.
Next, I caused the failure and ran lsof -p <process> again.
The second time, after the failure, lsof listed one additional loaded lib:
 emacs   29820 root  mem REG 8,8 93416 293917 /lib64/libgcc_s-4.3.0-20080428.so.1
Otherwise, the lsof output was identical.

Comment 2 Dave Blackburn 2008-11-08 18:44:03 UTC
I ran the following:
yum erase emacs
yum install emacs-1:22.2-4.fc9.x86_64
yum update emacs

I can no longer reproduce this problem.

Both emacs-1:22.2-4 and emacs-1:22.2-5
work OK.

I reduced the priority to low.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-06-10 03:11:21 UTC
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 14:07:32 UTC
Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
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