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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mike Kupfer <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:07:03 -0800
> 
> After several months of not seeing this problem (last discussed in
> September), I hit it today after invoking "emacsclient -c".  I've
> attached a partial screenshot.  The background color looks right, and I
> see the region for the menubar, but the gutters, scrollbar, and modeline
> are all totally missing.

According to what you found, Emacs doesn't think this frame exists.
So it's small wonder its display is severely corrupted.

> Here's the relevant excerpt from the server log for two emacsclient
> invocations.  The first one is for the bad frame, the second one is for
> a working frame.  I can provide the entire server log if desired.

I'm not sure the server log is the place to look for the problem.  Why
did you think it was relevant?

> (The environment has some values that I'd rather not post on a public
> list, so I've elided the environment from the above excerpt.  The only
> environment difference between the 2 frames was some sort of tag that
> dmenu creates, e.g.,
> DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID=i3/dmenu_run/5146-9-athyra_TIME3863103774.)

What is "dmenu"?

What kind of build is this?  (It's probably best to submit a formal
bug report where all these details will be spelled out.)