Was easily triggered with the RFB adaptor (#1620) and an ultravnc client. Shows up as this gdb backtrace:
Traceback (most recent call first): Waiting for the GIL File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 340, in wait waiter.acquire() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/Queue.py", line 126, in put self.not_full.wait() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/server/rfb/rfb_protocol.py", line 242, in raw_write self._write_queue.put(contents) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/server/rfb/rfb_protocol.py", line 233, in send self.raw_write(packet) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/server/rfb/rfb_source.py", line 88, in send p.send(msg) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/server/rfb/rfb_source.py", line 74, in damage self.send(pixels) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/server/server_base.py", line 3054, in _damage ss.damage(wid, window, x, y, width, height, options) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/server/rfb/rfb_server.py", line 152, in _process_rfb_FramebufferUpdateRequest self._damage(model, x, y, w, h) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/gtk_common/gtk_util.py", line 423, in gtk_main gtk.main() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/server/gtk_server_base.py", line 64, in do_run gtk_main() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/server/server_core.py", line 479, in run self.do_run() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/server/server_base.py", line 881, in run return ServerCore.run(self) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/scripts/server.py", line 1000, in run_server e = app.run() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/scripts/main.py", line 1469, in run_mode return run_server(error_cb, options, mode, script_file, args, current_display) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/scripts/main.py", line 177, in main return run_mode(script_file, err, options, args, mode, defaults) File "/usr/bin/xpra", line 15, in <module> sys.exit(main(sys.argv[0], sys.argv))
We're waiting for the queue to be empty to add a packet to it, but the queue has been flushed already and we've put the None packet in there and the IO thread has terminated (leaving the None packet in there). And so the queue will never be emptied again and this thread will wait forever - and since we call the RFB code in the main thread... that's even worse here.
r16796 takes the lazy approach of allowing 2 items in the write queue.
I am keeping this ticket open because:
meh - fixing this is hard
See ticket:1948#comment:1, and in particular r20355.
this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/1633