From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Flynn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46607: 25.2; Emacs hangs with Error running timer 'blink-cursor-start' Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 10:25:15 +0000 Message-ID: <3040962e-282b-9c5f-eb15-77e40069b7ae@silmaril.ie> References: <83mtw15v4q.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7489"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 Cc: 46607@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 19 11:26:11 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lD2zD-0001qc-LM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 11:26:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51406 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lD2zC-0000Go-JZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 05:26:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60172) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lD2z4-0000EV-1v for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 05:26:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:37249) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lD2z3-0000iF-OM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 05:26:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lD2z3-0002x0-JD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 05:26:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Peter Flynn Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 10:26:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 46607 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 46607-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B46607.161373032411285 (code B ref 46607); Fri, 19 Feb 2021 10:26:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 46607) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Feb 2021 10:25:24 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48795 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lD2yR-0002vw-HM for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 05:25:23 -0500 Original-Received: from orion.myhost.ie ([217.115.118.6]:38082) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lD2yP-0002vg-F1 for 46607@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 05:25:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.130] (unknown [79.97.20.231]) (Authenticated sender: peter@silmaril.ie) by orion.myhost.ie (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CD0C712BC; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 10:25:15 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <83mtw15v4q.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-GB X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:200316 Archived-At: On 18/02/2021 14:05, Eli Zaretskii wrote: [...] > Please try "emacs -q" (lower-case "q", not "Q"). If the problem > happens with -q as well, then its cause is somewhere in all those > site-start.d/50*.el files Emacs loads at startup -- those come from > your system's Emacs distro. On a bare-bones Mint 19 with no .emacs and using emacs -Q (capital Q) the *messages* buffer contains: > For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. > Type C-x 1 to delete the help window. > mwheel-scroll: End of buffer > mwheel-scroll: Beginning of buffer [7 times] > Note: file is write protected > View mode: type C-h for help, h for commands, q to quit. > Mark set > Checking for load-path shadows... > Checking 255 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp... > Checking 41 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/vc... > Checking 33 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/url... > Checking 44 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/textmodes... > Checking 87 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/progmodes... > Checking 25 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/play... > Checking 106 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/org... > Checking 24 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/nxml... > Checking 66 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/net... > Checking 26 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/mh-e... > Checking 34 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/mail... > Checking 1 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/leim... > Checking 38 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/language... > Checking 43 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/international... > Checking 130 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/gnus... > Checking 29 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/eshell... > Checking 35 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/erc... > Checking 17 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/emulation... > Checking 84 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/emacs-lisp... > Checking 12 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/cedet... > Checking 30 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/calendar... > Checking 44 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/calc... > Checking 60 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/obsolete... > Checking for load-path shadows...done > Auto-saving...done With emacs -q (lowercase) it never gets as far as the banner screen or the scratch buffer. Instead, the message area at the bottom just says > Error running timer ‘blink-cursor-start’: (wrong-type-argument listp 0.5) The *messages* buffer contains: > Loading 00debian-vars...done > Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50asymptote.el (source)...done > Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50autoconf.el (source)...done > Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50cmake-data.el (source)...done > Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)... > Loading debian-ispell... > Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-default.el (source)...done > Loading debian-ispell...done > Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el (source)...done > Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)...done > Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50latex-cjk-common.el (source)... > Loading cjk-enc...done > Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50latex-cjk-common.el (source)...done > Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50latex-cjk-thai.el (source)...done > Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50texlive-lang-english.el (source)...done > For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. > setq: Wrong type argument: listp, 10 > Error running timer ‘blink-cursor-start’: (wrong-type-argument listp 0.5) > setq: Wrong type argument: listp, 0.7 > Error running timer ‘blink-cursor-start’: (wrong-type-argument listp 0.5) [2 times] > setq: Wrong type argument: listp, 0.7 [3 times] > Error running timer ‘blink-cursor-start’: (wrong-type-argument listp 0.5) [3 times] > setq: Wrong type argument: listp, 0.7 > Error running timer ‘blink-cursor-start’: (wrong-type-argument listp 0.5) [3 times] > setq: Wrong type argument: listp, 0.7 [4 times] > mwheel-scroll: Beginning of buffer [13 times] > setq: Wrong type argument: listp, 0.35 [3 times] > mwheel-scroll: End of buffer [3 times] > setq: Wrong type argument: listp, 0.35 [3 times] > mwheel-scroll: Beginning of buffer [3 times] > Error running timer ‘blink-cursor-start’: (wrong-type-argument listp 0.5) [3 times] > setq: Wrong type argument: listp, 0.7 [2 times] > Error running timer ‘blink-cursor-start’: (wrong-type-argument listp 0.5) > Mark set > Error running timer ‘blink-cursor-start’: (wrong-type-argument listp 0.5) [2 times] > progn: Buffer is read-only: # > w is undefined > Error running timer ‘blink-cursor-start’: (wrong-type-argument listp 0.5) [7 times] > Mark activated > Error running timer ‘blink-cursor-start’: (wrong-type-argument listp 0.5) > next-line: End of buffer [8 times] > Error running timer ‘blink-cursor-start’: (wrong-type-argument listp 0.5) All those errors are the results of mouse-button clicks. Peter