From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: programingfrik@gmail.com
Cc: 21203@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21203: 24.5; about-emacs makes emacs freeze on windows 8.1
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 10:49:53 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83oagkbb32.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h9o2nz5q.fsf@gnu.org>
Ping! Any new information on this? Should the bug be closed?
Thanks.
> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 09:48:33 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 21203@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 17:06:19 -0400
> > From: Pablo Mercader Alcántara <programingfrik@gmail.com>
> >
> > > emacs -q --eval "(setq fancy-splash-image \"splash.xpm\")"
> > >
> > > and then try invoking 'about-emacs'. If Emacs still hangs, my guess
> > > was wrong, and the image libraries are probably not your problem.
> >
> > This works! so the problem is the image library ...
>
> This also means that the XPM library is OK.
>
> > > M-: (image-type-available-p 'svg)
> > t
> > > M-: (image-type-available-p 'png)
> > nil
>
> This is very strange, since librsvg, the library needed for SVG
> support, comes with PNG support libraries. Which is just one more
> evidence, IMO, that the problems you have are due to librsvg.
>
> So I suggest to find where that librsvg lives, download and install
> librsvg from this site:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/librsvg-2.40.1-2-w32-bin.zip/download
>
> and then install that downloaded librsvg in a place that Emacs will
> find before the other librsvg you already have. Some alternatives for
> achieving the latter:
>
> . Put the DLL files from the above zip archive in the same directory
> where you have emacs.exe
> . Rearrange PATH such that the directory where you have the DLLs
> from the above zip archive is found before the other librsvg
> . Uninstall the librsvg you have now
>
> > When I execute "emacs.exe" instead of "runemacs.exe" I get 2 windows,
> > a windows console window and in the fore ground the emacs for windows
> > window. When I execute the "about-emacs" in this window the console
> > shows an error message that says this:
> >
> > (emacs.exe:7528): Glib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2712: You forgot
> > to call gtype_init()
> >
> > (emacs.exe:7528): Glib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion
> > `initialization_value != 0' failed
>
> These come from glib, a library which is required by librsvg. I think
> this is part of your problem: something is wrong with that librsvg, at
> least when it is invoked from the native Windows Emacs. Do you know
> where did you get that librsvg?
>
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-30 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-06 23:41 bug#21203: 24.5; about-emacs makes emacs freeze on windows 8.1 Pablo Mercader Alcántara
2015-08-07 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-07 13:24 ` Pablo Mercader Alcántara
2015-08-07 14:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-13 21:06 ` Pablo Mercader Alcántara
2015-08-14 6:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-30 7:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-10-02 15:14 ` Pablo Mercader Alcántara
2015-11-24 20:42 ` Pablo Mercader Alcántara
2015-11-24 20:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
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