From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.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 12:51:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9apwq4o.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c588fb14-3411-d875-d6b4-e3243effc092@silmaril.ie> (Peter Flynn's message of "Wed, 17 Feb 2021 23:09:25 +0000")
Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> writes:
> 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
> ====================================================================
[...]
> But I don't know where blink-cursor-start is called, or why it's
> failing, but from comments in the emacs.se discussion, frame.el may be
> involved.
Could you put
(setq debug-on-error t)
in your .emacs file? That should give you a backtrace when the function
fails, which should tell us more about where the error is.
> In GNU Emacs 25.2.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.21)
> of 2017-09-22, modified by Debian built on lgw01-amd64-050
Emacs 25.2 is pretty old -- do you also see this in more recent Emacs
versions?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-18 11:51 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 [this message]
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
2021-02-18 22:37 ` Peter Flynn
2021-02-19 10:25 ` Peter Flynn
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