Running QProcesses as workload of ThreadWeaver jobs

[Adam Treat]

Hi Mirko,

I'm still investigating, but so far I haven't been able to come up with a 
simple test case for why this fails in kdevelop4.  It doesn't seem to have 
anything to do with how I'm using Threadweaver or QProcess... as I've 
duplicated exactly what you're doing in your new test in kdevelop4 and it 
still crashes with a backtrace that looks much like this:

#0  0xffffe410 in ?? ()
#1  0x4294da08 in ?? ()
#2  0x00000006 in ?? ()
#3  0x000035c3 in ?? ()
#4  0x41eda2c1 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#5  0x41edbb75 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#6  0x41cae6ec in qt_message_output (msgType=QtFatalMsg, buf=0x4294db80 
"ASSERT failure in QEventDispatcherUNIX::registerTimer: \"timers cannot be 
started from another thread\", file kernel/qeventdispatcher_unix.cpp, line 
383") at qglobal.cpp:1784
#7  0x41caea59 in qFatal (msg=0x41d67ad0 "ASSERT failure in %s: \"%s\", file 
%s, line %d") at qglobal.cpp:2000
#8  0x41cae358 in qt_assert_x (where=0x41d8c158 
"QEventDispatcherUNIX::registerTimer", what=0x41d8c128 "timers cannot be 
started from another thread", file=0x41d8c104 
"kernel/qeventdispatcher_unix.cpp", line=383) at qglobal.cpp:1559
#9  0x41d5ceb4 in QEventDispatcherUNIX::registerTimer (this=0x805bc00, 
timerId=7074, interval=20, obj=0x813c868) at qeventdispatcher_unix.cpp:381
#10 0x41d2f7ce in QAbstractEventDispatcher::registerTimer (this=0x805bc00, 
interval=20, object=0x813c868) at qabstracteventdispatcher.cpp:215
#11 0x41d47181 in QObject::startTimer (this=0x813c868, interval=20) at 
qobject.cpp:1339
#12 0x41d50f1d in QTimer::start (this=0x813c868) at qtimer.cpp:175
#13 0x41d50fe9 in QTimer::start (this=0x813c868, msec=20, sshot=true) at 
qtimer.cpp:202
#14 0x4101f200 in KCheckAccelerators::eventFilter () 
from /home/manyoso/dev/kde/trunk/KDE/kdelibs4-snapshot-install/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#15 0x4159d7a6 in QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper (this=0x80574f8, 
receiver=0x429502e0, e=0x42950000) at qapplication.cpp:2944
#16 0x4159c533 in QApplication::notify (this=0xbfffee40, receiver=0x429502e0, 
e=0x42950000) at qapplication.cpp:2666
#17 0x40f17e55 in KApplication::notify () 
from /home/manyoso/dev/kde/trunk/KDE/kdelibs4-snapshot-install/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#18 0x4126896b in QCoreApplication::sendEvent (receiver=0x429502e0, 
event=0x42950000) at qcoreapplication.h:171
#19 0x41d4790c in QObjectPrivate::setParent_helper (this=0x42e04b90, o=0x0) at 
qobject.cpp:1674
#20 0x41d45ec6 in ~QObject (this=0x42e049c0) at qobject.cpp:710
#21 0x41d508f8 in ~QSocketNotifier (this=0x42e049c0) at 
qsocketnotifier.cpp:160
#22 0x41d253ac in QProcessPrivate::processStarted (this=0x838fd60) at 
qprocess_unix.cpp:531
#23 0x41cffbfb in QProcessPrivate::startupNotification (this=0x838fd60) at 
qprocess.cpp:609
#24 0x41d25892 in QProcessPrivate::waitForStarted (this=0x838fd60, 
msecs=30000) at qprocess_unix.cpp:680
#25 0x41d00559 in QProcess::waitForStarted (this=0x429502e0, msecs=30000) at 
qprocess.cpp:967
#26 0x41d006f7 in QProcess::waitForFinished (this=0x429502e0, msecs=30000) at 
qprocess.cpp:1029
#27 0x41cffed5 in ~QProcess (this=0x429502e0) at qprocess.cpp:662
#28 0x42320d02 in ParseJob::run () 
from /home/manyoso/dev/kde/trunk/KDE/kdelibs4-snapshot-install/lib/kde4/libkdevcpplanguagesupport.so
#29 0x4021ea4d in ThreadWeaver::Job::execute () 
from /home/manyoso/dev/kde/trunk/KDE/kdevelop/lib/weaver/.libs/libThreadWeaver.so.4
#30 0x402202f2 in ThreadWeaver::Thread::run () 
from /home/manyoso/dev/kde/trunk/KDE/kdevelop/lib/weaver/.libs/libThreadWeaver.so.4
#31 0x41cb45d3 in QThreadPrivate::start (arg=0x838e268) at qthread_unix.cpp:83
#32 0x41d9eaa7 in start_thread () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0
#33 0x41f6cc2e in clone () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
(gdb) frame 0 
#0  0xffffe410 in ?? ()

As you can see, it looks like this has to do with an eventFilter that is 
installed somewhere by kdelibs that is sending the event across thread 
boundaries...  That is what I'm guessing at least.  Not sure how this is 
supposed to be fixed.

Adam

On Friday 21 October 2005 10:12 pm, Mirko Boehm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as there seem to be some difficulties, I have added an example program that
> does exactly that. It is in kdenonbeta/threadweaver/Tests/QProcessJob.
>
> Have fun with it,
> --Mirko.

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