Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 12/2/2012 6:35 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
> > In this release, for the first time, I've been able to build Cygwin's
> > emacs-X11 with all of the upstream defaults.  In particular, the build uses
> > GTK+-3 instead of GTK+-2, and it supports GNOME's GSettings and GConf
> > features.  A minor consequence of this is that you might see a GTK warning
> > about gtk_window_parse_geometry; this can be ignored.  A more important
> > consequence is that you should have a D-Bus session daemon running before
> > starting emacs under X11.  The simplest way to achieve this is to put the
> > following line at the beginning of your ~/.startxwinrc file:
> >
> >    eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax`
> >
> > See /usr/share/doc/emacs/README.Cygwin for more information.

> Hi Ken,
>
> After installing, I got these warnings error when I first started Emacs:
>
> [JJR:~] $ emacs
>
> (emacs:5940): GLib-WARNING **: In call to g_spawn_sync(), exit status
> of a child process was requested but SIGCHLD action was set to SIG_IGN
> and ECHILD was received by waitpid(), so exit status can't be
> returned. This is a bug in the program calling g_spawn_sync(); either
> don't request the exit status, or don't set the SIGCHLD action.
>
> ** (emacs:5940): WARNING **: Abnormal program termination spawning
> command line `dbus-launch
> --autolaunch=d4e8d39fb9cc546947a687f94fa28e98 --binary-syntax
> --close-stderr':
>
>

Hi Jim,

Yes, that's why you should have a D-Bus session daemon running before 
starting emacs.

Ken


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