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 **: 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:3344): WARNING **: Abnormal program termination spawning > > command line `dbus-launch --autolaunch=0b8f184fe6d82872ee8db8724ecfdb90 > > --binary-syntax --close-stderr': > > > > I think the pango warning is Cygwin specific, but the rest of it might > > not be. Similar symptoms were reported on Fedora: > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654027
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 matter), IOW: $ eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax` $ emacs-X11 & The first command should be added to the beginning of your ~/.startxwinrc, if you're using startxwin (or its shortcut) to start the X server. BTW, please be sure to reinstall dconf-service, that's not the problem, and you're going to need it in the "new world order" of GNOME 3. > 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 reproduce this. Does installing font-cantarell-otf help? Perhaps another font? Yaakov Cygwin/X -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
