From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21203: 24.5; about-emacs makes emacs freeze on windows 8.1 Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 17:09:19 +0300 Message-ID: <83wpx7qjg0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <838u9nsioy.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1438956629 8318 80.91.229.3 (7 Aug 2015 14:10:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 14:10:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 21203@debbugs.gnu.org To: Pablo Mercader =?UTF-8?Q?Alc=C3=A1ntara?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 07 16:10:18 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNiLh-0004yX-Dt for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2015 16:10:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49320 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNiLg-00073b-7i for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2015 10:10:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36184) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNiLV-0006qp-KS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2015 10:10:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNiLS-0003y8-DH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2015 10:10:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:40504) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNiLS-0003xh-Aa for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2015 10:10:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNiLR-0000hQ-Nf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2015 10:10:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 14:10:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 21203 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 21203-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B21203.14389565662644 (code B ref 21203); Fri, 07 Aug 2015 14:10:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21203) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Aug 2015 14:09:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41950 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNiKs-0000ga-5m for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2015 10:09:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:63552) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNiKp-0000gR-SA for 21203@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2015 10:09:24 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NSP00L00TWNP400@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 21203@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2015 17:09:22 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NSP00LTUTZMCW80@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 07 Aug 2015 17:09:22 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:105350 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 09:24:19 -0400 > From: Pablo Mercader Alcántara > > > > > What image support libraries do you have installed, and where did you > > get them? > > I didn't install any image libraries myself (that I'm aware of) but I > use a lot of FLOSS on this Windows PC so I wouldn't be surprised that > some other program installed some image library. > > Some programs that I think that could install image libraries: > - Gtk # and Monodevelop (xamarin studio) > - Cygwin with the X server > - Gimp > - Inkscape > - vlc > > What image libraries should I look for? You can see what the startup screen does in startup.el, by looking at the function fancy-splash-image-file: (defun fancy-splash-image-file () (cond ((stringp fancy-splash-image) fancy-splash-image) ((display-color-p) (cond ((<= (display-planes) 8) (if (image-type-available-p 'xpm) "splash.xpm" "splash.pbm")) ((or (image-type-available-p 'svg) (image-type-available-p 'imagemagick)) "splash.svg") ((image-type-available-p 'png) "splash.png") ((image-type-available-p 'xpm) "splash.xpm") (t "splash.pbm"))) (t "splash.pbm"))) As you see, it tries the SVG images first, then PNG, then XPM. So this is the order you should look at your image libraries. But first, I suggest to try invoking Emacs like this: 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. > I thought that emacs windows binary came with all it's libraries No, it comes only with libXpm. The other image support libraries you need to install yourself. See the file README.W32 in the distribution for the recommended sites from which to download them. > but if the problem is some kind of shared image library shouldn't > emacs 24.3 freeze as well? It could very well be that Emacs 24.3 you installed was built without support for the library that gives you trouble, in which case Emacs won't try using it. You can see which libraries are available by evaluating the following expressions: M-: (image-type-available-p 'svg) M-: (image-type-available-p 'png) M-: (image-type-available-p 'xpm) This should yield t if the support was compiled into Emacs _and_ the corresponding libraries are found, else it will yield nil.