Re: finding the hork point in ~/.emacs: timerp

[ken <gebser@mousecar.com>]

On 8/28/20 7:17 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
>> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 06:50:34 -0400
>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>
>>> You could try
>>>
>>> (setq debug-on-message "Error during redisplay")
>>>
>>> at the top of your .emacs. Although I suspect grepping through your
>>> package code might be quicker (thatʼs typically somewhere under
>>> "~/.emacs.d")
>>>
>>> Roert
>> Good suggestion about the text search, but "grep -ri timerp *" returned
>> nothing.
> As I said in another message, you should drop everything and first
> resolve the problem with Emacs not finding its emacs.pdmp file.  That
> long series of "Loading foo..." messages should never appear at
> startup time.
>
> How did you install Emacs? are there any symlinks or other redirection
> methods involved in reaching the Emacs executable from its usual
> place?
>
In another post in this thread I talked about emacs.pdmp in a bit more
detail... essentially I don't have that file on my system, nor was it
part of the install.

This system is fairly new, installed just a week or so ago:

# ll /etc/os-release
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Aug 17 17:22 /etc/os-release ->
../usr/lib/os-release
# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
# VERSION="20200817"
ID="opensuse-tumbleweed"
ID_LIKE="opensuse suse"
VERSION_ID="20200817"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20200817"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"
LOGO="distributor-logo"

# whereis -b emacs
emacs: /usr/bin/emacs /usr/lib/emacs /usr/share/emacs
# ls -ld /usr/bin/emacs /usr/lib/emacs /usr/share/emacs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4334 Apr 26  2017 /usr/bin/emacs
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    8 Aug 18 16:26 /usr/lib/emacs
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root   42 Aug 18 16:26 /usr/share/emacs