Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

[Ken Brown]

On 12/6/2012 4:37 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
>> I don't see the issue here.  I said in the release announcement that
>> you need to have a D-Bus daemon running before starting emacs-X11
>> under X.
>
> On all other system Emacs successfully finds an existing or autolaunches
> a new dbus session in this case and doesn't hang with no way to even
> kill it (yes, task manager will do it eventually, but that is from
> outside Cygwin).  The problem is not that it does need dbus, but that it
> actually starts without it but will then not be working correctly.
> Whether this is an issue with Emacs, Cygwin or libdbus I don't know.

Emacs will *try* to autolaunch a D-Bus session if it doesn't find one, 
but this feature is broken in the emacs-24 branch (and the problem is 
not Cygwin-specific).  This is Emacs bug #8855.  It's been fixed in the 
trunk, but the fix is complicated and probably won't be backported to 
the emacs-24 branch.  I didn't want to complicate the release 
announcement by giving all this information; I thought it would be 
enough to say, "... you should have a D-Bus session daemon running 
before starting emacs under X11."

Ken

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