Tview stuck in infinite loop after shelling out....

[derailed]

Hi,

First off thank you for this great project! I am having an issue in the latest code base while shelling out using Suspend. I issue a command and forward stdin, stdout, stderr. When the command completes tview is completely non responsive and the screen is partially drawn + cpu pegged. Ctrl-C has no effect. It seems I am stuck in a screen rendering loop somewhere. Any advise or things I could try out? Thanks! BTW this used to work fine a few month ago....

[rivo]

I just tried this myself but couldn't reproduce your problem. Could you send a short code snippet that illustrates this?

[k8sland]

@rivo thanks for looking into it and for tview!!

I think there is a race in this code (link below) where we init the new screen after it's been set in the application when the app is suspended. I've moved the lock block after the init and this seem to be working now. This is hard to repro as I think the draw routine timing is a play here...

Here is a ref: https://github.com/rivo/tview/blob/3938f6008527a10cc1b94159960970798f962558/application.go#L189

Thanks!

[rivo]

@k8sland Do you mean you set a.screen between the call to Init() and a.draw() and that solved it?

[rivo]

Will reopen when there is more information.

[derricw]

I'm experiencing this same issue. I am using app.Suspend to run Vim and compose a document. About 1/3 of the time, tview seems to get into some kind of infinite loop where it becomes unresponsive and pegs CPU. The other 2/3 of the time it works correctly.

Code snippet looks like this:

func (c *ChatWindow) Compose() {
    msg := ""
    success := c.app.Suspend(func() {
        msg = FancyCompose()
    })
    if !success {
        log.Error("failed to suspend")
        return
    }
    if msg != "" {
        contact := c.currentContact
        go c.Send(msg, contact)
        log.Infof("sent message: %s to contact: %s", msg, contact)
    }
}

And FancyCompose looks like this:

func FancyCompose() string {
    tmpFile, err := ioutil.TempFile(os.TempDir(), "compose-")
    if err != nil {
        log.Error("failed to create temp file for compose: %v", err)
        return ""
    }
    editor := os.Getenv("EDITOR")
    if editor == "" {
        log.Error("cannot compose: no EDITOR set in environment")
        return ""
    }
    fname := tmpFile.Name()
    defer os.Remove(fname)
    cmd := exec.Command(editor, fname)
    cmd.Stdout = os.Stdout
    cmd.Stdin = os.Stdin
    cmd.Stderr = os.Stderr
    if err = cmd.Run(); err != nil {
        log.Error("failed to start editor: %v", err)
        return ""
    }
    b, err := ioutil.ReadFile(fname)
    if err != nil {
        log.Error("failed to read temp file: %v", err)
        return ""
    }
    return string(b)
}

[issadarkthing]

I have this issue before but I solved it by making sure there are no tview widgets methods being called when calling app.Suspend

@rivo thanks for looking into it and for tview!!

I think there is a race in this code (link below) where we init the new screen after it's been set in the application when the app is suspended. I've moved the lock block after the init and this seem to be working now. This is hard to repro as I think the draw routine timing is a play here...

Here is a ref:

https://github.com/rivo/tview/blob/3938f6008527a10cc1b94159960970798f962558/application.go#L189

Thanks!

also this workaround doesn't work

[lenormf]

I'm hitting this issue, and it's making my program useless because it locks up constantly.

Here's a standalone reproducer:

package main

import (
    "os"
    "os/exec"
    "io/ioutil"
    "github.com/gdamore/tcell"
    "github.com/rivo/tview"
)

func main() {
    app := tview.NewApplication()
    box := tview.NewBox().
        SetBorder(true).
        SetTitle("Box Demo")

    box.SetInputCapture(func (event *tcell.EventKey) *tcell.EventKey {
        switch key := event.Key(); key {
            case tcell.KeyRune:
                switch event.Rune() {
                    // Hit `e` to spawn the editor
                    case 'e':
                        tmpfile, err := ioutil.TempFile("", "test.*.txt")
                        if err != nil {
                            panic(err)
                        }

                        path_tmpfile := tmpfile.Name()
                        tmpfile.Close()

                        app.Suspend(func () {
                            env_editor := os.Getenv("EDITOR")

                            path_editor, err := exec.LookPath(env_editor)
                            if err != nil {
                                panic(err)
                            }

                            cmd_editor := exec.Command(path_editor, path_tmpfile)

                            cmd_editor.Stdin = os.Stdin
                            cmd_editor.Stdout = os.Stdout
                            cmd_editor.Stderr = os.Stderr

                            if err := cmd_editor.Run(); err != nil {
                                panic(err)
                            }
                        })

                        // Without the following, it's much harder to reproduce the issue
                        if _, err := ioutil.ReadFile(path_tmpfile); err != nil {
                            panic(err)
                        }

                        os.Remove(path_tmpfile)

                        return nil
                }
        }

        return event
    })

    if err := app.SetRoot(box, true).Run(); err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
}

When I strace the process, I see that it's stuck on a call to futex(0x675688, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 0, NULL and it takes 100% of the CPU.

Any ideas?

[lenormf]

@rivo Could we please re-open this, we have a reproducer and several reports of the issue occurring, it'd be nice to have a workaround — or even better, a hot fix.

[rivo]

I tried this with your code and there was no deadlock. We're on tcell v2 now and work has been done on suspending applications. Maybe that has fixed it?

Can you please let me know if this is still an issue?

[lenormf]

It looks like the issue went away with tcell/v2. One side effect (potentially unrelated) seems to be that inputs are buffered, and hitting e won't do anything until another key is hit.

[rivo]

I didn't experience this. I tried it on macOS with iTerm2 and hitting e immediately sent me to my editor. What OS and terminal are you on?

[lenormf]

I'm using ArchLinux, the same issue is reproducible with Kitty (v0.20.1) and Xterm (v367) for me.

[rivo]

I'm sorry but I don't have any way to test and debug it on these systems. Key events are produced by tcell and consumed by tview here:

https://github.com/rivo/tview/blob/09cec83b1732556d91c984b2baa56f19b819b463/application.go#L267

Then they are queued and picked up again here:

https://github.com/rivo/tview/blob/09cec83b1732556d91c984b2baa56f19b819b463/application.go#L303

You may want to check if this code gets executed when you press e. If the screen.PollEvent() function doesn't even return when it's pressed, then it's an issue of tcell and you might want to open an issue there. If it returns with the correct *tcell.EventKey event, we can take it from there over here.

[derailed]

@lenormf - which version of tcell are you running? I think tcell v2.2.1 or later contains a fix for the first char being swallowed during suspend/resume operations...

[lenormf]

I'm using v2.2.1.

The first e is not swallowed up, I just have to hit another key for it to be executed.

The other weird thing is if I double tap e, the editor spawns (first e). When I quit the editor, the program resumes. If I hit another key, the editor spawns again (second e, for the double tap). So it looks like keys are buffered, until the buffer hits a size of 2.

The issue also occurs with different values of $EDITOR.

[rivo]

Well, for sure tview doesn't buffer any key events.

[jeewangue]

@lenormf

I'm using v2.2.1.

The first e is not swallowed up, I just have to hit another key for it to be executed.

The other weird thing is if I double tap e, the editor spawns (first e). When I quit the editor, the program resumes. If I hit another key, the editor spawns again (second e, for the double tap). So it looks like keys are buffered, until the buffer hits a size of 2.

The issue also occurs with different values of $EDITOR.

I had exactly the same issue with Arch Linux & termite. I had to press any other keys whenever app.stop() is executed by a keystroke.

versions:

• tview: 09cec83 (latest by now)
• tcell: v2.2.1

IMO the issue is related to https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/issues/452, saying that

the cause is that a read block occurs in the inputLoop of tscreen.go. (In v2.2.0, it was os.Stdin, so it could be finished.)

for the quick fix, I just downgraded tview to 7df0389 and tcell to v2.2.0 (not really far from the latest, 6 days ago from now)

go get github.com/rivo/tview@7df0389
go get github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2@v2.2.0

[gdamore]

tcell's issue 452 is fixed now... please retest.

[rivo]

Echoing @gdamore here, please let us know if the problem still persists with the latest version.

[dundee]

I am getting panic: read /dev/tty: i/o timeout on ArchLinux.

github.com/rivo/tview v0.0.0-20210624165335-29d673af0ce2
github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2 v2.4.0
go version go1.17 linux/amd64

Code the same as in https://github.com/rivo/tview/issues/244#issuecomment-770851919 except using tcell/v2.

Tried multiple shells and terminals.

[rivo]

@dundee Could you please run the program listed here: https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/issues/480 and let me know if this results in the same error?

[dundee]

Yes, same error. I will paste details there.

[gdamore]

So, does this only happen on ArchLinux? I wonder if there is a bug in the terminal code there.

The panic indicates a timeout reading from /dev/tty, but I don't think we actually attempt to read from that -- we issue a ioctls in the code path that has the panic, but not reads.

Which version of ArchLinux are you using? I unfortunately don't have any experience with Arch, but I don't want to burn cycles trying to fix a problem only to find I can't reproduce it because I don't have the right version of Arch.

[dundee]

I can confirm that the fix from https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/issues/480 fixes this issue as well.

[dundee]

Looks like some problem still persists on Windows.

The test script in https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/issues/480 works but tview application is not able to resume after being paused. It falls into deadlock:

fatal error: all goroutines are asleep - deadlock!

goroutine 1
 [select]:
github.com/rivo/tview.(*Application).Run(0xc0000ae000)
    C:/Users/danie/go/pkg/mod/github.com/rivo/tview@v0.0.0-20210624165335-29d673af0ce2/application.go:302 +0x325
github.com/dundee/gdu/v5/tui.(*UI).StartUILoop(0xc000107d60)
    C:/Users/danie/Downloads/gdu-master/gdu-master/tui/tui.go:156 +0x22
github.com/dundee/gdu/v5/cmd/gdu/app.(*App).Run(0xc000107d60)
    C:/Users/danie/Downloads/gdu-master/gdu-master/cmd/gdu/app/app.go:120 +0x2d2
main.runE(0xcbd260, {0xd15df0, 0x0, 0x0})
    C:/Users/danie/Downloads/gdu-master/gdu-master/cmd/gdu/main.go:96 +0x438
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).execute(0xcbd260, {0xc000042200, 0x0, 0x0})
    C:/Users/danie/go/pkg/mod/github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.2.1/command.go:856 +0x60e
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).ExecuteC(0xcbd260)
    C:/Users/danie/go/pkg/mod/github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.2.1/command.go:974 +0x3bc
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).Execute(...)
    C:/Users/danie/go/pkg/mod/github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.2.1/command.go:902
main.main()
    C:/Users/danie/Downloads/gdu-master/gdu-master/cmd/gdu/main.go:100 +0x25

goroutine 57 [chan send]:
github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2.(*cScreen).PostEventWait(...)
    C:/Users/danie/go/pkg/mod/github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2@v2.4.1-0.20210905002822-f057f0a857a1/console_win.go:334
github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2.(*cScreen).getConsoleInput(0xc0001900f0)
    C:/Users/danie/go/pkg/mod/github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2@v2.4.1-0.20210905002822-f057f0a857a1/console_win.go:717 +0x735
github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2.(*cScreen).scanInput(0xc0001900f0, 0x0)
    C:/Users/danie/go/pkg/mod/github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2@v2.4.1-0.20210905002822-f057f0a857a1/console_win.go:770 +0x7e
created by github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2.(*cScreen).engage
    C:/Users/danie/go/pkg/mod/github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2@v2.4.1-0.20210905002822-f057f0a857a1/console_win.go:329 +0x292

goroutine 21 [chan receive]:
github.com/rivo/tview.(*Application).Run.func2()
    C:/Users/danie/go/pkg/mod/github.com/rivo/tview@v0.0.0-20210624165335-29d673af0ce2/application.go:275 +0x118
created by github.com/rivo/tview.(*Application).Run
    C:/Users/danie/go/pkg/mod/github.com/rivo/tview@v0.0.0-20210624165335-29d673af0ce2/application.go:254 +0x1c5
exit status 2

require (
    github.com/fatih/color v1.12.0
    github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2 v2.4.1-0.20210905002822-f057f0a857a1
    github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.13
    github.com/rivo/tview v0.0.0-20210904173154-2f13f81dcb15
    github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.8.1
    github.com/spf13/cobra v1.2.1
    github.com/stretchr/testify v1.7.0
    golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20210903071746-97244b99971b // indirect
    golang.org/x/term v0.0.0-20210615171337-6886f2dfbf5b // indirect
    golang.org/x/text v0.3.7 // indirect
)

Not sure if it's worth the debugging though :)

[dundee]

Minimal example:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "os"
    "os/exec"

    "github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2"
    "github.com/rivo/tview"
)

func main() {
    s, e := tcell.NewScreen()
    if e != nil {
        fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "%v\n", e)
        os.Exit(1)
    }
    if e := s.Init(); e != nil {
        fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "%v\n", e)
        os.Exit(1)
    }

    termApp := tview.NewApplication()
    termApp.SetScreen(s)

    box := tview.NewBox().SetBorder(true).SetTitle("Hello, world!")
    termApp.SetRoot(box, true)

    termApp.SetInputCapture(func(key *tcell.EventKey) *tcell.EventKey {
        if key.Rune() == 's' {
            termApp.Suspend(func() {
                cmd := exec.Command("vim", "/tmp/foo")
                cmd.Stdout = os.Stdout
                cmd.Stdin = os.Stdin
                _ = cmd.Run()
            })
        }
        return key
    })

    termApp.Run()
}

module example.com/m

go 1.17

require (
    github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2 v2.4.1-0.20210905002822-f057f0a857a1
    github.com/rivo/tview v0.0.0-20210904173154-2f13f81dcb15
)

require (
    github.com/gdamore/encoding v1.0.0 // indirect
    github.com/lucasb-eyer/go-colorful v1.2.0 // indirect
    github.com/mattn/go-runewidth v0.0.13 // indirect
    github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.2.0 // indirect
    golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20210309074719-68d13333faf2 // indirect
    golang.org/x/term v0.0.0-20210220032956-6a3ed077a48d // indirect
    golang.org/x/text v0.3.6 // indirect
)

This example doesn't crash on the first suspend but on the second one:

fatal error: all goroutines are asleep - deadlock!

goroutine 1 [select]:
github.com/rivo/tview.(*Application).Run(0xc00016e000)
        C:/Users/danie/go/pkg/mod/github.com/rivo/tview@v0.0.0-20210904173154-2f13f81dcb15/application.go:302 +0x325
main.main()
        C:/Users/danie/test/main.go:41 +0x2d5

goroutine 5 [chan receive]:
github.com/rivo/tview.(*Application).Run.func2()
        C:/Users/danie/go/pkg/mod/github.com/rivo/tview@v0.0.0-20210904173154-2f13f81dcb15/application.go:275 +0x118
created by github.com/rivo/tview.(*Application).Run
        C:/Users/danie/go/pkg/mod/github.com/rivo/tview@v0.0.0-20210904173154-2f13f81dcb15/application.go:254 +0x1c5

goroutine 6 [chan send]:
github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2.(*cScreen).PostEventWait(...)
        C:/Users/danie/go/pkg/mod/github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2@v2.4.1-0.20210905002822-f057f0a857a1/console_win.go:334
github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2.(*cScreen).getConsoleInput(0xc000150000)
        C:/Users/danie/go/pkg/mod/github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2@v2.4.1-0.20210905002822-f057f0a857a1/console_win.go:717 +0x735
github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2.(*cScreen).scanInput(0xc000150000, 0x0)
        C:/Users/danie/go/pkg/mod/github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2@v2.4.1-0.20210905002822-f057f0a857a1/console_win.go:770 +0x7e
created by github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2.(*cScreen).engage
        C:/Users/danie/go/pkg/mod/github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2@v2.4.1-0.20210905002822-f057f0a857a1/console_win.go:329 +0x292
exit status 2

[gdamore]

Interesting -- I tested this on Linux, but not Windows. I guess maybe there is a completely separate bug on Windows. One thing I did try is the mouse.go demo -- which goes through this several times.

[bcspragu]

EDIT: Adding an app.Sync() after the app.Suspend call fixed my issue.

Found this issue after hitting the same thing with a more/less identical chunk of code. Relevant snippet:

    editor := os.Getenv("EDITOR")
    if editor == "" {
        editor = "vi"
    }

    success := true
    u.app.Suspend(func() {
        cmd := exec.CommandContext(ctx, editor, f.Name())
        cmd.Stdin = os.Stdin
        cmd.Stdout = os.Stdout
        cmd.Stderr = os.Stderr

        if err := cmd.Run(); err != nil {
            log.Printf("error while editing file: %v", err)
            success = false
        }
    })

The editor opens fine, but the program hangs after closing. I'm on Arch Linux, using alacritty + tmux, and using the latest versions of both tview (6c844bdc5f7a) and tcell (v2.6.0). The whole TUI app is available here: https://git.sr.ht/~bsprague/logseq-ui/tree/main/item/tui/tui.go

[digitallyserviced]

EDIT: Adding an app.Sync() after the app.Suspend call fixed my issue.

Found this issue after hitting the same thing with a more/less identical chunk of code. Relevant snippet:

  editor := os.Getenv("EDITOR")
  if editor == "" {
      editor = "vi"
  }

  success := true
  u.app.Suspend(func() {
      cmd := exec.CommandContext(ctx, editor, f.Name())
      cmd.Stdin = os.Stdin
      cmd.Stdout = os.Stdout
      cmd.Stderr = os.Stderr

      if err := cmd.Run(); err != nil {
          log.Printf("error while editing file: %v", err)
          success = false
      }
  })

The editor opens fine, but the program hangs after closing. I'm on Arch Linux, using alacritty + tmux, and using the latest versions of both tview (6c844bdc5f7a) and tcell (v2.6.0). The whole TUI app is available here: https://git.sr.ht/~bsprague/logseq-ui/tree/main/item/tui/tui.go

@derailed did you fix your issue?

granted i have no fucking clue how or what your app does, so in order to test i had to screw with the code to force open a json/task/whateverthing

wezterm+tmux+vim+arch+go run+(running logseq api server start with a junk api key and zero data)

go run ./... -api_key=bootybootybootybootybootybootybootybootybootybootybootybootybootybooty

just go running the latest git clone from your repo seems to work dandy. are you all good now?

func (u *UI) editTask(ctx context.Context, event *tcell.EventKey) *tcell.EventKey {
        // NUKED ACTUAL TASK GETTING
    // _, task, ok := u.currentTaskItem()
    // if !ok {
    //  return event
    // }

    f, err := os.CreateTemp("", "logseq-tui-*.json")
    if err != nil {
        log.Printf("failed to create temp file for editing: %v", err)
        return event
    }
    defer f.Close() // Best-effort
        // NUKED PASSING UUID
    orig, err := u.logseq.WriteBlockForEditing(ctx, "" , f)
    if err != nil {
        log.Printf("failed to load block for editing: %v", err)
        return event
    }

    if err := f.Close(); err != nil {
        log.Printf("failed to close temp file: %v", err)
        return event
    }

    editor := os.Getenv("EDITOR")
    if editor == "" {
        editor = "vi"
    }

    success := true
    u.app.Suspend(func() {
        cmd := exec.CommandContext(ctx, editor, f.Name())
        cmd.Stdin = os.Stdin
        cmd.Stdout = os.Stdout
        cmd.Stderr = os.Stderr

        if err := cmd.Run(); err != nil {
            log.Printf("error while editing file: %v", err)
            success = false
        }
    })

    if !success {
        return event
    }

    u.app.Sync()

    updatedF, err := os.Open(f.Name())
    if err != nil {
        log.Printf("failed to open file after editing: %v", err)
        return event
    }
    defer updatedF.Close()

    if err := u.logseq.ApplyDiffFromEditedBlock(ctx, orig, updatedF); err != nil {
        log.Printf("failed to apply diff to edited block: %v", err)
        return event
    }

    if err := u.refreshList(ctx); err != nil {
        log.Printf("failed to refresh list after edit: %v", err)
        return event
    }

    return nil

}

[bcspragu]

just go running the latest git clone from your repo seems to work dandy. are you all good now?

I'm not the original poster, just someone who ran into the same behavior, but I was indeed able to fix the problem by adding an app.Sync(), so it may or may not be related to the underlying issue other folks have mentioned here.