On 10/15/2012 12:33 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 10/15/2012 1:16 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:14:26 -0400 >>> From: Ken Brown >>> Cc: Emacs >>> >>> The build with dbus support still doesn't work. An "Emacs abort" >>> dialogue box comes up during the build [which I've never seen before >>> when doing a Cygwin build] asking if I want to attach gdb. >> >> That dialog is one sign that the native Windows GUI and window manager >> are used for display and input. It's what happens when Emacs aborts >> itself or catches some other fatal signal. >> >> Attaching a debugger, as instructed in the dialog, will allow you to >> produce a backtrace that might show what went wrong. > > I'm hoping that Daniel will be able to reproduce the problem and fix it. If > not, I'll try to debug it when I return from my trip. I haven't seen this problem, but that's likely because I'm not running a full desktop environment in Cygwin. I'll try setting up a dbus server and see whether I can reproduce the issue. I wonder whether the dbus code has ever worked on a non-X11 system.