From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>
Cc: 46607@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46607: 25.2; Emacs hangs with Error running timer 'blink-cursor-start'
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 16:05:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mtw15v4q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c588fb14-3411-d875-d6b4-e3243effc092@silmaril.ie> (message from Peter Flynn on Wed, 17 Feb 2021 23:09:25 +0000)
> From: Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>
> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 23:09:25 +0000
>
> For a blow-by-blow account, see
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/36612/emacs-hung-with-error-running-timer-blink-cursor-start?noredirect=1#comment99937_36612
>
> Summary:
> ====================================================================
> The moment I start Emacs, I get the error message
>
> Error running timer 'blink-cursor-start': (wrong-type-argument listp
> 0.5)
>
> It then refuses all keyboard input; for example C-x d gets the error
> message Wrong type argument: listp 10
> ====================================================================
>
> I managed to run Emacs without the suggested -Q just enough to open the
> messages buffer with the mouse and grab the contents. Then quit and run
> again with -Q and paste the message contents into a file to save
> it. This is what it says:
>
> 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/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) [2 times]
> setq: Wrong type argument: listp, 0.7
> Error running timer ‘blink-cursor-start’: (wrong-type-argument listp
> 0.5) [5 times]
> Mark set
> Error running timer ‘blink-cursor-start’: (wrong-type-argument listp 0.5)
> setq: Wrong type argument: listp, 0.7 [2 times]
> 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) [4 times]
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.
If the problem doesn't happen with -q, then its cause is in your init
file, ~/.emacs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-18 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-17 23:09 bug#46607: 25.2; Emacs hangs with Error running timer 'blink-cursor-start' Peter Flynn
2021-02-18 11:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-18 22:32 ` Peter Flynn
2021-02-18 23:03 ` Glenn Morris
2021-02-18 23:07 ` Peter Flynn
2021-02-18 23:31 ` Glenn Morris
2021-02-19 10:19 ` Peter Flynn
2021-02-19 16:33 ` Glenn Morris
2021-02-19 21:38 ` Peter Flynn
2021-02-20 12:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-20 14:11 ` Peter Flynn
2021-02-19 12:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-19 14:14 ` Peter Flynn
2021-02-19 14:19 ` Peter Flynn
2021-02-20 12:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-18 14:05 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-02-18 22:37 ` Peter Flynn
2021-02-19 10:25 ` Peter Flynn
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