I can confirm this bug. Switch the gtk theme to Raliegh causes emacs to
start reliably. The relevant part of the gdb backtrace is:
#0 0x00007f48f1bf63cd in poll () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007f48f50e915c in g_main_context_poll (n_fds=1, fds=0xee1330,
timeout=-1, context=0xd51620, priority=<optimized out>)
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.35.8/./glib/gmain.c:3995
#2 g_main_context_iterate (context=0xd51620, block=block@entry=1,
dispatch=dispatch@entry=1, self=<optimized out>)
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.35.8/./glib/gmain.c:3696
#3 0x00007f48f50e963a in g_main_loop_run (loop=0xee1280) at
/build/buildd/glib2.0-2.35.8/./glib/gmain.c:3895
#4 0x00007f48f512b101 in g_spawn_sync
(working_directory=working_directory@entry=0x0, argv=<optimized out>,
envp=envp@entry=0x0,
flags=flags@entry=G_SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH, child_setup=child_setup@entry=0x0,
user_data=user_data@entry=0x0,
standard_output=standard_output@entry=0x7fffd2ec6ad8,
standard_error=standard_error@entry=0x0, exit_status=exit_status@entry=0x0,
error=error@entry=0x0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.35.8/./glib/gspawn.c:434
#5 0x00007f48f512b578 in g_spawn_command_line_sync (command_line=<optimized
out>, standard_output=0x7fffd2ec6ad8, standard_error=0x0,
exit_status=0x0, error=0x0) at
/build/buildd/glib2.0-2.35.8/./glib/gspawn.c:735
#6 0x00007f48e9bca184 in Oxygen::QtSettings::kdeConfigPathList() const ()
I believe this patch to glib is ultimately responsible:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/glib/gspawn.c?id=ce0022933c255313e010b27f977f4ae02aad1e7e
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1142213
Title:
emacs23 does not start reliably when run in Kubuntu 13.04
Status in “emacs23” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
If I try to run emacs23 in Kubuntu 13.04, (KDE 4.10.0) I am finding
that the GUI starts only some of the time.
If the GUI doesn't start then I will only see a process running in
htop or similar.
Starting emacs in a terminal window with the -nw argument or
installing the Lucid interface shows that emacs does run each time it
starts so the problem is either with the emacs GTK interface or the
GTK libraries.
Emacs24 exhibits the same problem.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: emacs23 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-9.18-generic 3.8.1
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-9-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Mar 3 14:19:01 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-05 (57 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130104)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
TERM=screen-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: emacs23
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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