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On 2/21/2013 4:36 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> marco atzeri <marco.atzeri <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> running octave from emacs on cygwin, is like putting two elephants on
>> top of a hippo.
>
> The thing is, it used to work...  My current workaround is to run octave in a
> separate shell window, but that is quite a bit less convenient.
>
> I've started emacs from a shell window rather than the X11 menu and here's the
> error I get in the shell:
>
> (pid 4324 stderr) (emacs:4324): 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.

This is the D-BUS problem again.  As I said in my previous email, I 
think I should just avoid the need for a D-BUS daemon until emacs-24.4.

Ken

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