From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46607: 25.2; Emacs hangs with Error running timer 'blink-cursor-start' Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 16:05:25 +0200 Message-ID: <83mtw15v4q.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15210"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 46607@debbugs.gnu.org To: Peter Flynn Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 18 15:09:36 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 1lCjzq-0003nX-99 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 15:09:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45146 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCjzo-0008AJ-Uz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 09:09:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52804) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCjwQ-000469-4M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 09:06:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:34904) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCjwP-00040k-RT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 09:06:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lCjwP-0007Pw-LR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 09:06:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 14:06:01 +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=B46607.161365712328466 (code B ref 46607); Thu, 18 Feb 2021 14:06:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 46607) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Feb 2021 14:05:23 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46450 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lCjvn-0007P4-CI for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 09:05:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34808) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lCjvl-0007Oi-76 for 46607@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 09:05:21 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41952) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCjvf-0003fP-Br; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 09:05:15 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3028 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lCjve-00047c-Lq; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 09:05:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Peter Flynn on Wed, 17 Feb 2021 23:09:25 +0000) 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:200251 Archived-At: > From: Peter Flynn > 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.