can't open new frame

can't open new frame

[Hubert Chathi]

Sometimes, when I try to open a new frame (C-x 5 2), I get a "Wrong type
argument: number-or-marker-p, nil" message, and no frame opens.  It
seems to work fine when I start emacs, but after a while, it stops
working, and won't work from then on until I restart emacs, so it may be
some mode or package that I'm using that's triggering this behaviour
when it gets loaded or run.

I tried "M-x toggle-debug-on-error RET C-x 5 2", but it doesn't give me
any information (the debug buffer doesn't show up).

Has anyone else seen this?  Any ideas on how to debug this since
debug-on-error doesn't seem to be working?

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Re: can't open new frame

[Michael Heerdegen]

Hubert Chathi <hubert@uhoreg.ca> writes:

> Any ideas on how to debug this since debug-on-error doesn't seem to be
> working?

Try setting `debug-on-signal'.  If that doesn't help, try with
`debug-on-message'.

If the error is reproducible once it occurs, you can also try to debug
using the build-in debugger, e.g. via `debug-on-entry'.


HTH,

Michael.

Re: can't open new frame

[Hubert Chathi]

On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 21:35:43 +0200, Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> said:

> Hubert Chathi <hubert@uhoreg.ca> writes:
>> Any ideas on how to debug this since debug-on-error doesn't seem to
>> be working?

> Try setting `debug-on-signal'.  If that doesn't help, try with
> `debug-on-message'.

> If the error is reproducible once it occurs, you can also try to debug
> using the build-in debugger, e.g. via `debug-on-entry'.

Thanks for the information.  Unfortunately, I didn't manage to get
debug-on-signal or debug-on-message to work.

I did manage to figure it out, though, since I ended up having to
restart my emacs, and I tried doing C-x 5 2 every once in a while.  It
turns out that it's somehow caused by jabber-activity-mode from
emacs-jabber.  I've disabled it for now, and I'll be posting on the
emacs-jabber list to see if someone there can help out.

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