From: "Pablo Mercader Alcántara" <programingfrik@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 21203@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21203: 24.5; about-emacs makes emacs freeze on windows 8.1
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 11:14:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPQ4eMJLDPPXDUGFx=HVZrBOsfJNv2k+1GZu2OirSMggjTk-ww@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83oagkbb32.fsf@gnu.org>
Sorry, I don't have new info right now, haven't tried your last
recomendations, but the bug is still there. I'll try to make the
research this weekend.
Please excuse me!
2015-09-30 3:49 GMT-04:00 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@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:[~2015-10-02 15:14 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
2015-10-02 15:14 ` Pablo Mercader Alcántara [this message]
2015-11-24 20:42 ` Pablo Mercader Alcántara
2015-11-24 20:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
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