Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-11-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/25/2011 7:38 PM, Ken Brown wrote: When I build emacs against gtk3, it is unusable. Here are the symptoms when the resulting emacs is started in an xterm window: $ ./emacs -Q& [1] 3344 (emacs:3344): GLib-WARNING **: In call to g_spawn_sync(), exit status of a child process was requested bu

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-11-28 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Ken Brown wrote: I don't think gtk3 is the culprit here after all. I uninstalled libgtk3_0 and libgtk3-devel and rebuilt emacs, but the problem persisted. It was only after uninstalling dconf-service (a dependency of libgtk3_0) that things went back to normal. I can confirm. I uninstalled (f

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-11-29 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 08:40 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/25/2011 7:38 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > > When I build emacs against gtk3, it is unusable. Here are the symptoms > > when the resulting emacs is started in an xterm window: > > > > $ ./emacs -Q& > > [1] 3344 > > > > (emacs:3344): GLib-WARNING

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-11-30 Thread Pavel Holejsovsky
On 11/30/2011 4:51 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: 2. The pango warning can already be observed with the current Cygwin emacs after the recent update of the GNOME libraries. To reproduce, install the emacs-X11 package and start emacs with the command `emacs&' in an xterm window. I cannot reprodu

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-11-30 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 11:17 +0100, Pavel Holejsovsky wrote: > On 11/30/2011 4:51 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > >> 2. The pango warning can already be observed with the current Cygwin > >> emacs after the recent update of the GNOME libraries. To reproduce, > >> install the emacs-X11 package and s

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-11-30 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/30/2011 6:54 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 11:17 +0100, Pavel Holejsovsky wrote: On 11/30/2011 4:51 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: 2. The pango warning can already be observed with the current Cygwin emacs after the recent update of the GNOME libraries. To reproduce,

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-11-30 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/29/2011 10:51 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 08:40 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/25/2011 7:38 PM, Ken Brown wrote: When I build emacs against gtk3, it is unusable. Here are the symptoms when the resulting emacs is started in an xterm window: $ ./emacs -Q& [1] 3344 (e

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-12-01 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/30/2011 9:09 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/29/2011 10:51 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 08:40 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/25/2011 7:38 PM, Ken Brown wrote: When I build emacs against gtk3, it is unusable. Here are the symptoms when the resulting emacs is started in an

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-12-02 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 18:04 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/30/2011 9:09 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > > On 11/29/2011 10:51 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > >> This appears to be the same bug. The solution is to launch a DBus > >> session bus *before* starting emacs (or any other gtk3 programs for that > >

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-12-02 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/2/2011 5:35 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 18:04 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/30/2011 9:09 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/29/2011 10:51 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: This appears to be the same bug. The solution is to launch a DBus session bus *before* starting emacs (or

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-12-03 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Just for completeness... Yaakov wrote Okay, I got it. dconf-service needs a GVfs implementation, but the default provider (from the gvfs package) is currently only available in Ports. That's what I get for trying to be minimalistic wrt the distro. I installed gvfs and all it needs (I have m

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-12-03 Thread nyc4bos
Hi, "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" writes: > On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 08:40 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: >> On 11/25/2011 7:38 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >> > When I build emacs against gtk3, it is unusable. Here are the symptoms >> > when the resulting emacs is started in an xterm window: >> > >> > $ ./emacs -Q& >> > [

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-12-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 08:01 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: > This doesn't do it. Emacs still dies after a short time. I don't know > if that means that there's something else going on, but I'll retest it > after you package gvfs. In the meantime, I'll continue with my > workaround of setting GSETTIN

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-12-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Sat, 2011-12-03 at 15:30 +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Just for completeness... > > Yaakov wrote > > > Okay, I got it. dconf-service needs a GVfs implementation, but the > > default provider (from the gvfs package) is currently only available in > > Ports. That's what I get for trying to b

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-12-04 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/4/2011 7:13 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 08:01 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: This doesn't do it. Emacs still dies after a short time. I don't know if that means that there's something else going on, but I'll retest it after you package gvfs. In the meantime, I'll continu

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-12-05 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/4/2011 8:44 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/4/2011 7:13 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 08:01 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: This doesn't do it. Emacs still dies after a short time. I don't know if that means that there's something else going on, but I'll retest it after you packag

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-12-09 Thread nyc4bos
Ken Brown writes: > On 11/30/2011 6:54 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >> On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 11:17 +0100, Pavel Holejsovsky wrote: >>> On 11/30/2011 4:51 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > 2. The pango warning can already be observed with the current Cygwin > emacs after the recent update of

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-12-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/9/2011 8:39 PM, nyc4...@aol.com wrote: Ken Brown writes: On 11/30/2011 6:54 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 11:17 +0100, Pavel Holejsovsky wrote: On 11/30/2011 4:51 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: 2. The pango warning can already be observed with the current Cygwin em

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2012-04-03 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2012-04-03 16:11, Ken Brown wrote: Now that gvfs is available, I've built the latest emacs-24 pretest against gtk3 and removed the GSETTINGS_BACKEND=memory setting, but I still have the same problem. If I start emacs and then just walk away from it, after a while it will die with a segfault. (

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2012-04-03 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/3/2012 6:30 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-04-03 16:11, Ken Brown wrote: Now that gvfs is available, I've built the latest emacs-24 pretest against gtk3 and removed the GSETTINGS_BACKEND=memory setting, but I still have the same problem. If I start emacs and then just walk away from i

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2012-04-03 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2012-04-03 20:52, Ken Brown wrote: There's no problem when emacs is built with gtk2. There's also no problem with gtk3, provided I set GSETTINGS_BACKEND=memory. I regularly run the entire GNOME desktop for hours (if not days) on end, so I really don't think that this is a bug in dconf or gv

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2012-04-04 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/3/2012 11:55 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-04-03 20:52, Ken Brown wrote: There's no problem when emacs is built with gtk2. There's also no problem with gtk3, provided I set GSETTINGS_BACKEND=memory. I regularly run the entire GNOME desktop for hours (if not days) on end, so I reall

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2012-04-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2012-04-04 09:15, Ken Brown wrote: Another option is to use gtk3 but to put the GSETTINGS_BACKEND workaround into the emacs startup code: setenv ("GSETTINGS_BACKEND", "memory", 1); I've been testing this, and it seems to work (but I won't be completely confident until I've had emacs running

Re: Problems with emacs built with gsettings support [was: Problems with emacs built against gtk3]

2012-04-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/4/2012 6:12 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-04-04 09:15, Ken Brown wrote: Another option is to use gtk3 but to put the GSETTINGS_BACKEND workaround into the emacs startup code: setenv ("GSETTINGS_BACKEND", "memory", 1); I've been testing this, and it seems to work (but I won't be com

Re: Problems with emacs built with gsettings support [was: Problems with emacs built against gtk3]

2012-04-06 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Hi Ken, Ken Brown wrote: Now I can reproduce the problem with both gtk2 and gtk3 If you remember I flagged this on 24.11.2011 with a private mail. After the upgrading to GNOME 3.2, not only the gtk3 build was unstable but also the old gtk2 builds were unstable... Since then I am using thi

Re: Problems with emacs built with gsettings support [was: Problems with emacs built against gtk3]

2012-04-07 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Il 06/04/2012 21.22, Angelo Graziosi ha scritto: Any way I will try to follow your recipe to reproduce the problem, but I am sure it is still there.. No, it isn't! I have run Emacs for more than 14 hours and I haven't see any problem. I have done that strictly following your recipe... Cia

Re: Problems with emacs built with gsettings support [was: Problems with emacs built against gtk3]

2012-04-08 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/7/2012 6:11 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Il 06/04/2012 21.22, Angelo Graziosi ha scritto: Any way I will try to follow your recipe to reproduce the problem, but I am sure it is still there.. No, it isn't! I have run Emacs for more than 14 hours and I haven't see any problem. I have done

Re: Problems with emacs built with gsettings support [was: Problems with emacs built against gtk3]

2012-04-08 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Ken Brown wrote: Would you mind sending me your cygcheck output Attached... What anti-virus software do you use (if any)? Microsoft Security Essential (MSE)... I would be glad if someone could teach me how do not use an AV on Windows... ;-) Ciao, Angelo. cygcheck.out.bz2 Description: