sup talk - Feb 2008 - Crash on startup, "wrong id called on nil"

It''s been a while since I launched sup, and updating today from
master, I get a crash on startup:

--- RuntimeError from thread: load threads for thread-index-mode
wrong id called on nil


IIRC, this was also happening maybe a month or so ago, and I just
didn''t have the time to deal with it then.  Dumping the index,
rebuilding, etc, seem to not affect this at all.


The full exception log is:

$ cat sup-exception-log.txt 
--- RuntimeError from thread: load threads for thread-index-mode
wrong id called on nil
./lib/sup.rb:13:in `id''
./lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:183:in `update''
./lib/sup/hook.rb:123:in `sort_by''
./lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:183:in `each''
./lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:183:in `sort_by''
./lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:183:in `update''
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:135:in `synchronize''
./lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:181:in `update''
./lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:466:in
`__unprotected_load_n_threads''
./lib/sup/thread.rb:332:in `load_n_threads''
./lib/sup/index.rb:224:in `each_id_by_date''
./lib/sup/index.rb:224:in `each''
./lib/sup/index.rb:224:in `each_id_by_date''
./lib/sup/thread.rb:326:in `load_n_threads''
./lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:463:in
`__unprotected_load_n_threads''
(eval):12:in `load_n_threads''
./lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:452:in
`load_n_threads_background''
./lib/sup.rb:60:in `reporting_thread''
./lib/sup.rb:58:in `initialize''
./lib/sup.rb:58:in `new''
./lib/sup.rb:58:in `reporting_thread''
./lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:451:in
`load_n_threads_background''
./lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:502:in
`__unprotected_load_threads''
(eval):12:in `load_threads''
bin/sup:199
--- SystemExit from thread: main
wrong id called on nil
./lib/sup.rb:64:in `select''
./lib/sup/buffer.rb:31:in `nonblocking_getch''
bin/sup:212

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Reformatted excerpts from Michael Gurski''s message of
2008-02-07:
> It''s been a while since I launched sup, and updating today from
> master, I get a crash on startup:
> 
> --- RuntimeError from thread: load threads for thread-index-mode wrong
> id called on nil
Hm, this is a bit tricky. It looks like on of the thread invariants I
maintain is actually a variant.

Although it would be trivial to just guard against this error, it would
be better to find out why it''s happening. Would you mind applying the
following patch (just save it to disk and run "git am" on it from your
sup directory), which will emit some debugging output to send-me.txt
when you run Sup and this error occurs. Then you can send me that file
and maybe I can figure out what''s going on.

Thanks!

-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>
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Reformatted excerpts from William Morgan''s message of
2008-02-16:
> Reformatted excerpts from Michael Gurski''s message of 2008-02-07:
> > It''s been a while since I launched sup, and updating today
from
> > master, I get a crash on startup:
> > 
> > --- RuntimeError from thread: load threads for thread-index-mode wrong
> > id called on nil
> 
> Hm, this is a bit tricky. It looks like on of the thread invariants I
> maintain is actually a variant.
I think this should be fixed at this point.

-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>