Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-20 Thread Mark Evenson
On 2013-12-13 13:34:01 +, Ken Brown said: I just took a second look at your strace output, and I saw the same font issue as the one here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-12/msg00248.html Try the remedy I suggested there. Ken The instructions linked here solved the problem

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/6/2013 8:38 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 12/05/13 15:40, marco atzeri wrote: In the end I got a trace file (which is over 7MB!), but it's nothing I can interpret. What should I do? Anything I should look for? any seriuos error ;-) Wish I could discern... :-) see here Problem

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-10 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 12/06/13 17:26, Ken Brown wrote: I don't know if this explains your emacs problem, but the group mkgroup indicates that /etc/group (and possibly /etc/passwd) should be rebuilt Don't you get a message about this when you start a shell? I don't get any such message. mkpasswd -l won't list

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 10 10:34, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 12/06/13 17:26, Ken Brown wrote: I don't know if this explains your emacs problem, but the group mkgroup indicates that /etc/group (and possibly /etc/passwd) should be rebuilt Don't you get a message about this when you start a shell? I don't

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-06 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 12/05/13 16:01, Achim Gratz wrote: Andrea Venturoli ml at netfence.it writes: Of course, emacs is a shell script. Of course it should be a symlink, pointing to emacs-X11 on a standard installation. Right. It's a symlink to a symlink: $ which emacs /usr/bin/emacs $ ls -l /usr/bin/emacs

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-06 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 12/05/13 15:40, marco atzeri wrote: In the end I got a trace file (which is over 7MB!), but it's nothing I can interpret. What should I do? Anything I should look for? any seriuos error ;-) Wish I could discern... :-) see here Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-06 Thread Max Polk
On 12/6/2013 8:38 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: In the end I got a trace file (which is over 7MB!), but it's nothing I Try from mintty window running emacs without X and without start files: emacs -nw -Q See if other X apps run: xterm There should be no errors running the above. --

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-06 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 12/06/13 14:51, Max Polk wrote: On 12/6/2013 8:38 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: In the end I got a trace file (which is over 7MB!), but it's nothing I Try from mintty window running emacs without X and without start files: emacs -nw -Q See if other X apps run: xterm There should be

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-06 Thread marco atzeri
Il 12/6/2013 2:38 PM, Andrea Venturoli ha scritto: On 12/05/13 15:40, marco atzeri wrote: In the end I got a trace file (which is over 7MB!), but it's nothing I can interpret. What should I do? Anything I should look for? any seriuos error ;-) Wish I could discern... :-) the crash is

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-06 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 12/06/13 15:18, marco atzeri wrote: the crash is here --- Process 3888, exception c005 at 610FA004 [cut] --- Process 3888, exception c005 at 00597673 --- Process 3888, exception c005 at 610D67B3 $ addr2line.exe -a 610FA004 -e /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll 0x610fa004

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-06 Thread cgf
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 03:18:31PM +0100, marco atzeri wrote: Il 12/6/2013 2:38 PM, Andrea Venturoli ha scritto: On 12/05/13 15:40, marco atzeri wrote: In the end I got a trace file (which is over 7MB!), but it's nothing I can interpret. What should I do? Anything I should look for? any

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/6/2013 8:25 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: lrwxrwxrwx 1 andrea mkgroup 23 11 set 12.22 /usr/bin/emacs - /etc/alternatives/emacs $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/emacs lrwxrwxrwx 1 andrea mkgroup 22 11 set 12.22 /etc/alternatives/emacs - /usr/bin/emacs-X11.exe I don't know if this explains your

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 12/04/13 16:50, David Karr wrote: Are you running it from the desktop from run? I discovered the same thing. One workaround that worked for me was to open a rxvt window and then run emacs from that. I tried from xterm or Cygwin Terminal. However, an even better workaround was simply

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 12/04/13 11:56, marco atzeri wrote: Il 12/4/2013 10:20 AM, Andrea Venturoli ha scritto: Hello. Since a bit, emacs won't start under X: no error, no message, nothing. It just starts and exits after a while without doing anything. I can run emacs -nw fine. How can I diagnose this? Is there

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-05 Thread marco atzeri
Il 12/5/2013 1:50 PM, Andrea Venturoli ha scritto: On 12/04/13 11:56, marco atzeri wrote: Il 12/4/2013 10:20 AM, Andrea Venturoli ha scritto: Hello. Since a bit, emacs won't start under X: no error, no message, nothing. It just starts and exits after a while without doing anything. I can run

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrea Venturoli ml at netfence.it writes: Of course, emacs is a shell script. Of course it should be a symlink, pointing to emacs-X11 on a standard installation. Did you read /usr/share/doc/emacs/README.Cygwin? Is the DISPLAY environment variable set correctly? Does Emacs run when you start

emacs won't run

2013-12-04 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Since a bit, emacs won't start under X: no error, no message, nothing. It just starts and exits after a while without doing anything. I can run emacs -nw fine. How can I diagnose this? Is there any log I can look into? Any utility? bye Thanks av. -- Problem reports:

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-04 Thread marco atzeri
Il 12/4/2013 10:20 AM, Andrea Venturoli ha scritto: Hello. Since a bit, emacs won't start under X: no error, no message, nothing. It just starts and exits after a while without doing anything. I can run emacs -nw fine. How can I diagnose this? Is there any log I can look into? Any utility?

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-04 Thread David Karr
Are you running it from the desktop from run? I discovered the same thing. One workaround that worked for me was to open a rxvt window and then run emacs from that. However, an even better workaround was simply using the w32 version and bypassing X entirely. When I changed my run shortcut to run

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 11:56:11AM +0100, marco atzeri wrote: Il 12/4/2013 10:20 AM, Andrea Venturoli ha scritto: Hello. Since a bit, emacs won't start under X: no error, no message, nothing. It just starts and exits after a while without doing anything. I can run emacs -nw fine. How can I

Re: emacs won't run

2013-12-04 Thread marco atzeri
Il 12/4/2013 8:21 PM, Christopher Faylor ha scritto: On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 11:56:11AM +0100, marco atzeri wrote: Il 12/4/2013 10:20 AM, Andrea Venturoli ha scritto: Hello. Since a bit, emacs won't start under X: no error, no message, nothing. It just starts and exits after a while without