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On 12/3/2012 1:28 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 12/3/2012 12:53 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C
>> <jjreisert AT alum DOT mit DOT edu> wrote:
>>
>>>> Yes, that's why you should have a D-Bus session daemon running before
>>>> starting emacs.
>>>
>>> And that's why I should read the entire release note.  Working find
>>> now, thanks!
>>
>> I started emacs, exited, then started it again. the second time I got
>> this same stuff:
>>
>> (emacs:1672): 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:1672): WARNING **: Abnormal program termination spawning
>> command line `dbus-launch
>> --autolaunch=3f052ecf1e24145e3fdb40554f55370e --binary-syntax
>> --close-stderr':
>>
>>
>> Could the dBus daemon have crashed?  I do see dbus stuff running in
>> the Windows 7 task manager.
>
> Let's keep this discussion on the list, because I'm sure there will be
> other people having trouble with the new dbus requirement.
>
> I doubt if the dbus daemon crashed.  How did you start emacs the second
> time?  Did you do it by typing `emacs' in an xterm window?  If so, you
> shouldn't have gotten those error messages (assuming you started the
> D-Bus daemon the way I suggested in the release announcement).

I'm also assuming that you started xterm in ~/.startxwinrc.  If you have 
some other preferred way of starting your X applications, there's a 
different way of starting the D-Bus daemon that might work better for 
you.  See /usr/share/doc/emacs/README.Cygwin.

Ken

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