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emacs24 package

Emacs locks up when launching in X

Bug #1173659 reported by lykwydchykyn
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Bug Description

After upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04, I cannot run Emacs X11. I can run emacs with "-nw" in a terminal window, but attempting to launch a regular X11 frame (either GTK or Lucid) causes emacs to freeze. The window never appears, and emacs does not respond.

Running emacs as a daemon, I can connect with terminal-based emacsclient, but as soon as I try to connect with an X11 emacsclient, the daemon freezes up and all text-based clients become unresponsive.

Can't find any errors being thrown. Emacs processes appear to still be running.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: emacs24 24.2+1-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 27 10:36:08 2013
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: emacs24
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-26 (1 days ago)

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lykwydchykyn (me-alandmoore) wrote :
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lykwydchykyn (me-alandmoore) wrote :

Apparently this is only happening to me under Awesome window manager. At least, it works when I log in to OpenBox.

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lykwydchykyn (me-alandmoore) wrote :

Disregard the last comment, apparently it happens in openbox as well. Sometimes I can get an instance of emacs to launch from a login script, and even launch a few X11 client frames. Before long, though, it all locks up and I can't re-launch any X11 frames, even if I kill all emacs processes and start over.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in emacs24 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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nlcom (nlcom) wrote :

This happens with identical symptoms for me as well, under Kubuntu 13.04.
  * No output on terminal. Process "just sits there", no noticable CPU use.
  * Ctrl-C doesn't work, it needs 'pkill -9 emacs' to be killed.
  * Affects both emacs23 and emacs24.
  * Text-mode emacs -nw seems to work normally.
  * I have various emacs supporting apt packages installed, amongst them: emacs-goodies.el, auto-complete.el, doxymacs, icicles.
  * Hardware: Lenovo X60, Intel graphics.

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nlcom (nlcom) wrote :

Seems to be a duplicate of BUG #1142213 ; the workaround described there makes emacs seemingly start normally again.

Specific steps I took:
  * Install package kde-config-gtk-style
  * KDE System settings / Application Appearance / GTK (in the left sidebar)
    * GTK2 theme: Raleigh
    * GTK3 theme: Ambiance

The looks are a matter of taste, but it resolves the problem for now.

Additional information: this system was just upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 via Ubuntu 12.10.

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lykwydchykyn (me-alandmoore) wrote :

This workaround does it for me as well, except that I changed the gtk3 theme to "emacs" (it was the only one available). I use a lot of kde programs with awesome, so my gtk themes were set to oxygen-gtk.

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ethanbrown (ethandbrown) wrote :

Confirmed for me too. Same problem, theme work-around fixes.

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