| Summary: | emacs fails to start when running KDE | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | George Beshers <gbeshers> |
| Component: | kdebase-workspace | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list> |
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | CC: | ctatman, rja, spacewar, tee |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | 7.0 | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2014-02-14 10:00:14 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 722241 | ||
Hi George, thanks for the bug. But it seems to be like a bug in xorg-server-utils which did not provide the variable WINDOW_FOREGROUND I will clarify that. I tested on the latest RHEL-7 system whether emacs is starting and result is that under GNOME and Cinnamon all is working properly. Unfortunatelly under KDE not. Your emacs version is 24.3, right? greeting Petr Hi Petr, I suspected that it might be KDE setup. What puzzled me is why the command line arguments failed?? If I had been able to get it working with -fg -bg etc. then I wouldn't have filed it against emacs. If your confident emacs isn't the culprit do you know who to ask next? [gbeshers@sgi-desk ~]$ emacs --version GNU Emacs 24.3.1 Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies of Emacs under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING. Cheers, George Hi George, finally I've got an answer from upstream ==== This is outside of Emacs control. There are some files that expects to be run through the preprocessor, but isn't. It is usually Emacs.ad, located somewhere in /etc/X11 or /usr/lib/X11 or /usr/share/X11, or with xorg instead of X11. This error comes up now and then. If you find the Emacs.ad file, try removing it. You may have to restart X after that. Also do % xrdb -query and you will see if the WINDOW_FOREGROUND is set just for Emacs or globally. If it is globally, removing Emacs.ad wont help, some other file isn't preprocessed properly. The point is, this is not an Emacs bug, closing. ==== Please try the steps mentioned above and let me know whether it helps. Hi xrdb maintainer could you please verify whether you provides colors like WINDOW_FOREGROUND or WINDOW_BACKGROUND best regards xrdb in RHEL7 does not run the C preprocessor on resource files by default anymore. It was running mcpp(1), which is dead upstream and which neither the X nor tools teams have the resources to maintain. The alternative is running gcc's cpp, which we don't want to do by default because it drags in most of gcc, which most non-developer desktop scenarios neither need nor want. I'm not sure where this WINDOW_FOREGROUND thing is coming from though. It's not provided in any of the base X11 packages, nor do I see any string match for it in emacs itself. And emacs seems to work just fine when run under Gnome, so I'm going to assume KDE is putting it in the resource db and assuming cpp expansion will happen. KDE should either do this expansion itself, or require cpp. Switching to KDE team which can help me why the variables WINDOW_FOREGROUND|BACKGROUND lost. I have checked emacs in GNOME and all is working properly. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1043686 *** Does emacs use tk (per the claim of being a duplicate of bug 1043686)? I didn't think it did. This happens with the MATE desktop (from EPEL7) also, not just KDE. For similar problem with emacs with Mate desktop see bug #1140329. |
Description of problem: I installed rhel7 snap1 on my desktop (well did an upgrade) and included KDE. From konsole 'emacs file.txt' returns Undefined color: "WINDOW_FOREGROUND" [gbeshers@sgi-desk BIOS_xe320]$ emacs -fg black file.txt Undefined color: "WINDOW_BACKGROUND" [gbeshers@sgi-desk BIOS_xe320]$ emacs -fg black -bg white file.text Undefined color: "WINDOW_FOREGROUND" Starting emacs from a 6.5 machine in the lab produced the same output. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always on my desktop. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: