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Re: Emacs slow startup
- From: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 13:29:26 +0000
- Subject: Re: Emacs slow startup
- References: <b4msh1mbnhv.fsf@jpl.org>
On 10/3/2018 7:48 PM, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since a couple of months ago, Emacs takes about a minute to start.
> This happens with both emacs-X11 (the one Cygwin distributes) and
> the one I built, and everytime I get the following error:
>
> ** (emacs:10672): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
>
> I googled it and found an article in which someone wrote that
> installing at-spi2-core solves it. Although the version 2.26.2
> has already been installed in my system, I tried downgrading it
> to 2.24.1. It did the trick! Emacs startup got fast as before.
I can confirm that downgrading at-spi2-core gets rid of the warning. But, FWIW,
I don't see any difference in Emacs's performance. (I wasn't experiencing the
slow startup that you reported.)
Ken