On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 18:04 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/30/2011 9:09 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > > On 11/29/2011 10:51 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > >> 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& > > > > That gets rid of the warning, but emacs still dies after a few seconds > > (no error message, no stackdump), unless I uninstall dconf-service. I'll > > see if I can get more information by running emacs under gdb. I'd > > appreciate any suggestions you might have as to where I should look. > > > I have some further information: The problem is related to the GSettings > backend. If I uninstall dconf-service and start emacs, I get a warning > that the GSettings `memory' backend will be used. Emacs then works > fine. If I reinstall dconf-service but set GSETTINGS_BACKEND=memory > before starting emacs, it again works fine. Does this provide any clue > as to what the problem might be?
Okay, I got it. dconf-service needs a GVfs implementation, but the default provider (from the gvfs package) is currently only available in Ports. That's what I get for trying to be minimalistic wrt the distro. Of course, my gvfs package requires Avahi[1], so it may be an interesting ITP; I'll try to do that next week, and hopefully this thread will help expedite the review nonetheless. In the meantime, try setting the GIO_USE_VFS environment variable to "local"[2], which will allow dconf-service to work despite the lack of gvfs. (Why this isn't done automatically as a fallback, I have no idea.) Yaakov Cygwin/X [1] http://cygwinports.blogspot.com/2011/07/this-lemur-can-be-found-outside-of.html [2] http://developer.gnome.org/gio/2.30/ch03.html -- 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/
