X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <50BCF8C2.9070408@cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:08:50 -0500 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-CORNELL-SPAM-CHECKED: Pawpaw X-Original-Sender: kbrown@cornell.edu - Mon Dec 3 14:08:48 2012 X-PMX-CORNELL-REASON: CU_White_List_Override X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 12/3/2012 1:50 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > I started emacs, exited, then started it again. the second time I got > this same stuff, as if the dbus-daemon had crashed: > > (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': > > When I start my X server, I see one dbus-daemon.exe process running. That's the way it should be. > As soon as I start "emacs" the first time, there is a second > dbus-daemon.exe as well as a dbus-launch.exe. That shouldn't happen. Can you show me the contents of ~/.startxwinrc? And exactly how are you starting emacs? Is it from an xterm that is started in ~/.startxwinrc? If not, then the method I suggested for starting a D-Bus daemon might not work for you. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple