Re: [O] still seeing semi-regular lockups

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Daimrod <address@hidden> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On 05/19/14 23:21 PM, Daimrod wrote:
>>> Daimrod <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> I have also semi-regular lockup with org-mode. I have opened a bug on
>>>> debbugs and here is what Stefan told me to try to debug this:
>>>>
>>>>> You can try `debug-on-event'.
>>>>> 
>>>>> There's jit-lock-debug-mode but it doesn't disable inhibit-quit.
>>>>> So you'll need to additionally use
>>>>> 
>>>>>    (advice-add 'jit-lock--debug-fontify :around
>>>>>      (lambda (fun &rest args)
>>>>>        (with-local-quit (apply fun args))))
>>>>> 
>>>>> Of course sometimes this doesn't work because jit-lock-debug-mode
>>>>> changes the way things are executed and the bug may not manifest itself
>>>>> any more, but it's worth a try.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Another source of info is to
>>>>> 
>>>>>   M-x trace-function RET org-adaptive-fill-function RET
>>>>>   M-x trace-function RET org-element-at-point RET
>>>>>   M-x trace-function RET org-element--cache-sync RET
>>>>>   M-x trace-function RET org-element--cache-process-request RET
>>>>> 
>>>>> Then reproduce the hang, then break the hang somehow (maybe with the
>>>>> jit-lock-debug hack above, or maybe with debug-on-event, or with C-g C-g
>>>>> C-g, ...), then look at the *trace..* buffer.
>>>>
>>>> I'll try to see what I can find this week end and report back.
>>>
>>> Ok, so the good news is the `debug-on-event' trick works. If you got a
>>> lockup, you can get a classic elisp backtrace by sending the SIGUSR2 to
>>> the Emacs process.
>>>
>>> The bad news is that I don't know yet how to reproduce the lockup. It
>>> seems to happen mostly (if not only) when I use org-mode +
>>> visual-line-mode + adaptive-wrap-prefix-mode + an input-method like
>>> latin-postfix.
>>>
>>> And it probably has to do with the cache mechanism. I'll try to
>>> reproduce it with the cache disabled but it hard to test because, as I
>>> said, I don't know how to reproduce it yet.
>>>
>>> I'll keep testing and see if I can reproduce it reliably.
>>>
>>> Stay tuned!
>>
>> Of course I haven't gotten a single lock-up since reporting in last time...
>
> :D
>
> Do you have a similar setup? That is visual-line-mode,
> adaptive-wrap-prefix-mode, input-method?

None of those three, I'm afraid! It was hanging on a variety of editing
operations that, as far as I can tell, had little in common. There's a
possibility that they were list-item-related, but really there wasn't
much commonality.

E