Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

["Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>]

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



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