emacs-23.2-3 and DBus

[Ken Brown]

On 10/6/2010 2:12 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 10/6/2010 1:51 PM, Michael Albinus wrote:
>> Ken Brown writes:
>>
>>>> The binary has the following checksum:
>>>>
>>>> $ cksum /usr/bin/emacs
>>>> 658187514 16254990 /usr/bin/emacs
>>>
>>> That's not actually the binary; it's a symlink that resolves to either
>>> /usr/bin/emacs-X11.exe or /usr/bin/emacs-nox.exe, depending on whether
>>> or not you've installed the emacs-X11 package.  Is it possible that
>>> you upgraded the emacs package but are still using an old emacs-X11?
>>> If not, I don't know what the problem could be.  If you can't figure
>>> it out, you could try giving the command
>>>
>>>     cygcheck -svr>   cygcheck.out
>>>
>>> and sending the resulting cygcheck.out as an attachment.  Maybe I (or
>>> someone) will be able to spot something.
>>
>> I haven't the cygwin notebook with me, next access for me is tomorrow.
>> I'll check then.
>>
>> The only difference I could imagine is that I haven't started the system
>> bus; only the session bus was running. Could you, please, check with
>> your environment? Maybe there is still a problem.
>
> Yes, that's it.  Emacs does freeze if I load dbus.el and the system bus
> isn't running.  But the problem doesn't occur in a build of Emacs from
> the trunk.  I vaguely recall that someone reported this problem last
> summer, and you fixed it.  But maybe you only fixed it in the trunk, and
> not in the emacs-23 branch.  Do I remember that correctly?

Here's what I was thinking of:

   http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6579

Ken

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