RE: Emacs doesn't start from icon after update to 1.7.25 [attn: Chuck]

["KARR, DAVID" <dk068x at att dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 7:51 AM
> To: cygwin
> Subject: Re: Emacs doesn't start from icon after update to 1.7.25 [attn:
> Chuck]
> 
> On 9/23/2013 9:56 AM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From:
> >> Ken Brown
> >> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 4:50 AM
> >> On 9/22/2013 5:38 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From:
> >>>> Ken Brown
> >>>> Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 1:13 PM
> >>>> On 9/22/2013 2:06 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
> >>>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>>> From: On Behalf Of
> >>>>>> Ken Brown
> >>>>>> On 9/21/2013 8:42 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
> >>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>>>>> From:  On Behalf Of
> >>>>>>>> Ken Brown
> >>>>>>>> On 9/20/2013 7:26 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> Today I updated 1.7.25.  I was a handful of minor releases behind
> at
> >>>> the
> >>>>>>>> time.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> After the update, I can't start Emacs from the icon anymore.  The
> >>>>>> shortcut
> >>>>>>>> command I have for it is the following:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>          C:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /usr/bin bash -l -i -c "emacs -
> >> display
> >>>>>>>> 127.0.0.1:0.0 --debug-init"
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I don't think this has anything to do with emacs.  There have been
> >>>>>>>> several reports of problems with run-1.3.0-1.  Try downgrading to
> the
> >>>>>>>> previous version of run, or switch to run2.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I first tried just changing the command line to "run2".  No change.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> run2 is not a drop-in replacement for run.  If you want to use it, you
> >>>>>> have to install the run2 package and read the documentation.  Or you
> >>>>>> could run the script /usr/bin/make-emacs-shortcut, which creates a
> >>>>>> shortcut that uses run2.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I already had run2 installed.  I ran "make-emacs-shortcut".  I moved
> the
> >>>> resulting shortcut to the desktop, giving it a new name.  I double-
> clicked
> >>>> it.  Nothing happened.  I than created a cmd window and pasted in the
> >> command
> >>>> line from the shortcut and ran it.  Nothing.  I then pasted in the
> command
> >>>> line from the old shortcut, and Emacs came up.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'd like to find out what went wrong with the shortcut created by
> >>>> make-emacs-shortcut.  What's the target?  And what are the contents of
> >>>> the emacs.xml file that it uses?
> >>>
> >>> Target: C:\Cygwin\bin\run2.exe --display 127.0.0.1:0.0
> >> /usr/local/bin/emacs.xml
> >>>
> >>> /usr/local/bin/emacs.xml:
> >>> ------------------
> >>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?>
> >>> <Run2Config
> >>>     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
> >>>     xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="run2.xsd">
> >>>     <SelfOptions />
> >>>     <Global>
> >>>       <Environment />
> >>>     </Global>
> >>>     <GDI>
> >>>       <Environment />
> >>>       <Target filename="/usr/bin/bash.exe" startin="~">
> >>>         <Arg>-l</Arg>
> >>>         <Arg>-c /usr/bin/emacs-w32.exe</Arg>
> >>>       </Target>
> >>>     </GDI>
> >>>     <X11>
> >>>       <Environment>
> >>>         <Set var="DISPLAY" value="127.0.0.1:0.0"/>
> >>>       </Environment>
> >>>       <Target filename="/usr/bin/bash.exe" startin="~">
> >>>         <Arg>-l</Arg>
> >>>         <Arg>-c emacs</Arg>
> >>>       </Target>
> >>>     </X11>
> >>> </Run2Config>
> >>> -----------------
> >>
> >> This looks right, and it works fine for me on both 32-bit and 64-bit
> >> Cygwin.  I don't know why it doesn't work for you.  Does 'cygcheck
> >> /usr/bin/run2.exe' show anything unexpected?  What about 'run2 --help'
> >> (in a Cygwin bash shell)?
> >
> > % cygcheck /usr/bin/run2.exe
> > C:\Cygwin\bin\run2.exe
> >    C:\Cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
> 
> [...]
> 
> > % run2 --help
> > Usage: run2 [OPTIONS] xmlfile
> 
> [...]
> 
> Looks fine.  I'm out of ideas.  Maybe Chuck (the run and run2
> maintainer) can help you if you want to pursue this.

Anyone else (Chuck?) have any ideas on this?  As I can't open Emacs from the shortcut anymore, my current workaround is opening an rxvt window and running emacs from there.

If it matters, I tried taking my shortcut's command line and altering it like this:

c:\cygwin\bin\strace.exe -f C:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /usr/bin bash -l -i -c "emacs -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 --debug-init" > strace.log

I'm attaching that strace.log file.  I looked at it, and I didn't see anything obvious.  I still chuckle over the reference to "/home/corinna", but I'm pretty sure that has nothing to do with this.

Attachment: strace.log
Description: strace.log

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