3-line Emacs window after Gnome updates

3-line Emacs window after Gnome updates

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

Yaakov released a ton of Gnome updates Wednesday 3/22.  Now when I
start Emacs in an xterm, I get the following error, and the resulting
Emacs window is only 3-lines tall:


** (emacs:8440): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus
address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process
org.a11y.Bus exited with status 1
      0 [main] emacs 8440 dlclose:
C:\Cygwin64\lib\gio\modules\cyggsettingsgconfbackend.dll count 1
    260 [main] emacs 8440 dll_list::detach: HERE
C:\Cygwin64\lib\gio\modules\cyggsettingsgconfbackend.dll


Any ideas?

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Re: 3-line Emacs window after Gnome updates

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

> Yaakov released a ton of Gnome updates Wednesday 3/22.  Now when I
> start Emacs in an xterm, I get the following error, and the resulting
> Emacs window is only 3-lines tall:
>
>
> ** (emacs:8440): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus
> address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process
> org.a11y.Bus exited with status 1
>       0 [main] emacs 8440 dlclose:
> C:\Cygwin64\lib\gio\modules\cyggsettingsgconfbackend.dll count 1
>     260 [main] emacs 8440 dll_list::detach: HERE
> C:\Cygwin64\lib\gio\modules\cyggsettingsgconfbackend.dll

Another message:

(emacs:8260): Gtk-WARNING **: Allocating size to Emacs 0x6004de270
without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height(). How does the
code know the size to allocate?

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Re: 3-line Emacs window after Gnome updates

[Ken Brown]

n 3/23/2017 1:18 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>> Yaakov released a ton of Gnome updates Wednesday 3/22.  Now when I
>> start Emacs in an xterm, I get the following error, and the resulting
>> Emacs window is only 3-lines tall:

I can confirm this.

>> ** (emacs:8440): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus
>> address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process
>> org.a11y.Bus exited with status 1

I see this when I log in as an administrator, but not when I'm an 
ordinary user.  We've discussed this before, and I think it's harmless.

>>       0 [main] emacs 8440 dlclose:
>> C:\Cygwin64\lib\gio\modules\cyggsettingsgconfbackend.dll count 1
>>     260 [main] emacs 8440 dll_list::detach: HERE
>> C:\Cygwin64\lib\gio\modules\cyggsettingsgconfbackend.dll

I don't see this...

> Another message:
>
> (emacs:8260): Gtk-WARNING **: Allocating size to Emacs 0x6004de270
> without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height().

... or this.

> How does the
> code know the size to allocate?

Do you have an emacs.geometry setting in your ~/.Xresources?  Or any 
kind of size setting in your emacs initialization files?  If not, I 
guess emacs or X11 has a default.

I'll look into the 3-line window and see if I can figure out what's 
going on.

Ken

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Re: 3-line Emacs window after Gnome updates

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On 2017-03-23 16:02, Ken Brown wrote:
> Do you have an emacs.geometry setting in your ~/.Xresources?  Or any
> kind of size setting in your emacs initialization files?  If not, I
> guess emacs or X11 has a default.
>
> I'll look into the 3-line window and see if I can figure out what's
> going on.

This might be related:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-25.1&id=9ca5dbf947a7421d37b3e2d2bc6b8d2c9218bc65

Which btw is just wrong; they should have used the gtk_check_version 
function instead of the GTK_CHECK_VERSION macro.  In any case, try 
rebuilding emacs with libgtk3-devel 3.22.

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Re: 3-line Emacs window after Gnome updates

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Ken Brown asked:

> Do you have an emacs.geometry setting in your ~/.Xresources?  Or any kind of
> size setting in your emacs initialization files?  If not, I guess emacs or
> X11 has a default.

Yes, but I disabled the entire Emacs section in .Xresources and re-ran
xrdb.  I still get the 3-line Emacs window:

! emacs*background:     #000000
! emacs*foreground:     #ffffff
! emacs.geometry:               110x45
! emacs*borderColor:    blue
! emacs.cursorColor:    white
! emacs.pointerColor:   red
! emacs.font:           -adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-96-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
! emacs.font:
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1

xterm*background:       #000000
xterm*foreground:       #ffffff
xterm*borderColor:      blue
xterm*cursorColor:      white
xterm*pointerColor:     red
xterm*SaveLines:        2000
xterm*pointerShape:     top_left_arrow
xterm*scrollBar:        on
xterm*geometry:         130x45
xterm*toolBar:          false
xterm*font:
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1

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Re: 3-line Emacs window after Gnome updates

[Ken Brown]

On 3/23/2017 5:27 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2017-03-23 16:02, Ken Brown wrote:
>> Do you have an emacs.geometry setting in your ~/.Xresources?  Or any
>> kind of size setting in your emacs initialization files?  If not, I
>> guess emacs or X11 has a default.
>>
>> I'll look into the 3-line window and see if I can figure out what's
>> going on.
>
> This might be related:
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-25.1&id=9ca5dbf947a7421d37b3e2d2bc6b8d2c9218bc65
>
>
> Which btw is just wrong; they should have used the gtk_check_version
> function instead of the GTK_CHECK_VERSION macro.  In any case, try
> rebuilding emacs with libgtk3-devel 3.22.

Thanks, Yaakov.  I think your diagnosis is correct, and rebuilding fixed 
the problem.  I've uploaded a new release.

Ken


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Re: 3-line Emacs window after Gnome updates

[Ken Brown]

On 3/24/2017 7:50 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 3/23/2017 5:27 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> Which btw is just wrong; they should have used the gtk_check_version
>> function instead of the GTK_CHECK_VERSION macro.  In any case, try
>> rebuilding emacs with libgtk3-devel 3.22.
>
> Thanks, Yaakov.  I think your diagnosis is correct, and rebuilding fixed
> the problem.  I've uploaded a new release.

And I've reported the problem upstream:

   https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=23144#78

Ken

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