I’m on opensuse tumbleweed, and today after updating my packages, I can’t use emacs. Anyone have any ideas how to troubleshoot this?
❯ emacs -Q
Loading loadup.el (source)...
Dump mode: nil
Using load-path (/usr/share/emacs/29.1/lisp /usr/share/emacs/29.1/lisp/emacs-lisp /usr/share/emacs/29.1/lisp/progmodes /usr/share/emacs/29.1/lisp/language /usr/share/emacs/29.1/lisp/international /usr/share/emacs/29.1/lisp/textmodes /usr/share/emacs/29.1/lisp/vc)
Loading emacs-lisp/debug-early...
Symbol's function definition is void: file-name-sans-extension
That looks as if you are running a pre-dump Emacs executable.
One step of the Emacs build process is to load up the elisp files that are required for a basic Emacs session and dump an image with these files pre-loaded. This is speeds up the startup process. The Emacs executable that is used for this pre-loading is normally called
temacs
. You don’t normally run this executable, it’s only used during the build process. The message you posted looks as if theemacs
command is running thistemacs
executable rather than the normal post-dump one.I’d try to make sure that this
emacs
executable you are running is actually the one from the current Emacs installation and not some old binary (perhaps executed through an alias or symlink?).I started by checking
emacs --version
and confirming that it reported 29.1. The file atwhich emacs
(/usr/bin/emacs
) is not a symlink, it’s a bash script that was ultimately runningemacs-gtk
, which is a binary in the same directory.If I run emacs-gtk directly, things appear to work, but I get this warning:
(emacs-gtk:15168): dbind-WARNING **: 11:28:59.261: AT-SPI: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files
This appears to be related to screen reader support. My repos do have packages for at-spi, but I don’t reckon that hiding a warning I might see once per reboot is a strong enough reason to install it.
If I run
emacs-x11
directly, things seem to work, though if I turn on menu-bar-mode or check the menu with F10 it looks awful.If I set and export EMACS_TOOLKIT to x11 and run the bash script, it seems to take longer to load and spams hundreds of lines in the shell as it announces that it’s loading things. I’m not that bothered by long loading times as I’m seldom restarting, but I don’t know why it’s so spammy when I start it through the script.
I’d like to better understand what’s going on. For now, I think I have a working setup again if I just skip the script and run emacs-gtk directly, but I’m sure there’s something wrong with my setup, and I hate not knowing things. I’ll include the bash script in a reply to myself here.
#!/bin/bash # # Launch a GNU Emacs # # The environment variable EMACS_TOOLKIT is used to determine # the prefered GUI. Possible values/types of EMACS_TOOLKIT are # # nox -- for pure console based GNU Emacs # gtk -- for full GTK2/3 based GNU Emacs # x11 -- for full LUCID based GNU Emacs (used Xaw3d) # # Should work but remember history # bnc#345669 -- Emacs doesn't un-maximize in KDE/KWin # bnc#342385 -- Emacs doesn't keep the iconic information in KDE/KWin # # if test -z "$EMACS_TOOLKIT" ; then # EMACS_TOOLKIT=gtk # KDE_FULL_SESSION=$(xprop -root KDE_FULL_SESSION 2>/dev/null) # case "$KDE_FULL_SESSION" in # *true*) EMACS_TOOLKIT=x11 # esac # fi # : ${EMACS_TOOLKIT:=gtk} # # Enabled again # if test "$EMACS_TOOLKIT" = gtk; then # Currently (2013/05/24) the parser of the GNOME libs # are broken that is it is not independent from locale LC_NUMERIC=POSIX GDK_RGBA=0 export LC_NUMERIC GDK_RGBA fi arg0=$0 argv=("$@") if test -x ${arg0}-${EMACS_TOOLKIT} then set -- ${arg0}-${EMACS_TOOLKIT} elif test -x ${arg0}-x11 then set -- ${arg0}-x11 elif test -x ${arg0}-nox then set -- ${arg0}-nox else echo "no emacs binary found" exit 1 fi if [[ "$1" =~ .*-nox ]] ; then exec -a $arg0 ${1+"$@"} "${argv[@]}" fi dbusdaemon=$(type -p dbus-daemon 2>/dev/null) # # Now check for valid dbus, e.g. after su/sudo/slogin # if test -n "$dbusdaemon" ; then # # Workaround for boo#1205109 # if test "$EUID" = 0 -a "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" != /run/user/0; then unset XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_DESKTOP_DIR XDG_RUNTIME_DIR XDG_DATA_DIRS # unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS if test ! -d /run/user/0; then systemctl start user@0 >/dev/null 2>&1 fi if test -S /run/user/0/bus; then DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:/run/user/0/bus fi fi # Standard on modern systems : ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:=/run/user/${EUID}} export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR # Oops ... no dbus-daemon then launch a new session if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ; then dbuslaunch=$(type -p dbus-launch 2>/dev/null) dbusession=$(type -p dbus-run-session 2>/dev/null) if test -z "$dbusession" -a -n "$dbuslaunch" ; then set -- $dbuslaunch --sh-syntax --close-stderr --exit-with-session ${1+"$@"} arg0=$dbuslaunch elif test -n "$dbusession" ; then set -- $dbusession -- ${1+"$@"} arg0=$dbusession else arg0=emacs fi elif test -S "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/bus" ; then dbusupdate=$(type -p dbus-update-activation-environment 2>/dev/null) dbusstatus=$(systemctl --user is-active dbus.service 2>/dev/null) if test -n "$dbusupdate" -a "$dbusstatus" != active ; then export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:path=${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/bus" $dbusupdate --systemd "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" fi fi unset dbuslaunch dbusdaemon fi # # Disable AT bridge if not accessible # if test -z "$NO_AT_BRIDGE" ; then gsettings=$(gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface toolkit-accessibility 2>/dev/null) if test -z "$gsettings" -o "$gsettings" = false ; then NO_AT_BRIDGE=1 export NO_AT_BRIDGE fi unset gsettings fi # # Check input method for working ibus setup # case "$XMODIFIERS" in @im=ibus*) _arch=$(getconf LONG_BIT) if test "$_arch" != 64 then unset _arch else _arch=-64 fi if type -p gtk-query-immodules-3.0${_arch} &> /dev/null then _ibus=$(gtk-query-immodules-3.0${_arch} | grep im-ibus) else unset _ibus fi if test -n "$_ibus" then if test -z "$GTK_IM_MODULE" -o "$GTK_IM_MODULE" != ibus then export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus fi else unset XMODIFIERS fi unset _ibus _arch if ! ibus list-engine &> /dev/null then unset GTK_IM_MODULE XMODIFIERS fi ;; *) esac unset G_MESSAGES_DEBUG G_DEBUG G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED exec -a $arg0 ${1+"$@"} "${argv[@]}"
According to the other thread and a Mastodon post the package is broken.
As a side note for me Emacs is just too important to leave to the distribution, I always build my own.
Yeah… I may have to do the same. I had plans this weekend that this slowed down. Thanks for your help. I hadn’t seen the other thread or the mastodon post.
Thanks, I’ll try and look for that when I get the chance. I got called away from the computer right after making my post