24.3; Emacsclient freezes if mutt attaches a signature

Bug #1292630 reported by Walter Garcia-Fontes
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
emacs-defaults (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

I use emacs in mutt. For some of my mails I have a hook in mutt that
attaches a signature to the mail:

send-hook bulmages-main <at> lists.berlios.de "set signature=/home/wgarcia/.signature.bulma"

I call emacs from mutt with the following command:

set editor="emacsclient -a \"\" -t"

If I have an emacs daemon running and I have an attached emacsclient
running, the emacsclient opened by mutt freezes, and it also makes
all other emacsclient opened freeze too. If I open emacsclient but mutt
does not try to attach a signature it does not freeze.

I attach a stacktrace that I produced the following way:

1) I opened the daemon and attached an emacsclient.
2) I opened mutt, and produced the freeze
3) I opened gdb and "add-inferior" emacsclient
4) I runned emacsclient in gdb and produced the trace.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: emacs 45.0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-17.37-generic 3.13.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Mar 14 18:26:04 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-10-25 (1236 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: emacs-defaults
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-03-07 (7 days ago)

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Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia) wrote :
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Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia) wrote :
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Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia) wrote :

I've filed an upstream bug report:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17014

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in emacs-defaults (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Kenyon Ralph (kralph) wrote :

Seems like this was fixed with emacs 25. I was also having this problem (or something very similar) with emacs 24.

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Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia) wrote :

@kralph Good to know! I will close the bug when Emacs 25 arrives to the repositories.

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Kenyon Ralph (kralph) wrote :

emacs25 packages are in the repositories if you want to try: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=emacs25

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