Re: Emacs and DBUS

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 8/25/2010 10:37 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 8/25/2010 10:02 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> > On 8/24/2010 11:28 PM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> > > Ken Brown  writes:
> > >
> > > > > After installing that library, Emacs did start. How ever, it blocks
> > > > > when loading dbus.el.
> > > >
> > > > Don't you normally have to start a D-BUS session before loading
> > > > dbus.el? Maybe one of the Cygwin people who uses D-BUS can tell us how
> > > > to do that.
> > >
> > > I've started the session bus via dbus-launch in advance, of course. I
> > > have no idea, how to start the system bus in cygwin, 'though.
> >
> > Run /usr/bin/messagebus-config and follow the instructions for
> > installing messagebus as a service.  You will need to be logged in as a
> > user with administrator privileges for this.
> >
> > > Emacs' D-Bus code shall be resistent in case of absence of a bus, but
> > > who knows ... how could I debug it via gdb?
> >
> > The executable /usr/bin/emacs-nox.exe is stripped; that's why you
> > couldn't debug it.  Here's a link to the unstripped version, with debug
> > symbols:
> >
> >      http://www.math.cornell.edu/~kbrown/emacs-nox.exe.bz2
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> The blocking you observed when dbus.el is loaded doesn't occur with a
> build from the Emacs trunk (r101187).

Correction: It occurs if and only if the system messagebus service is 
running.

Ken

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