Cannot start emacs after upgrade.

jxy · 2009-10-31 22:16:01

Now that I came back to the X environment (see my other post for that problem), I can no longer start emacs. It prints out

Undefined color: "WINDOW_FOREGROUND"

and exits with 255.

So I try to see what is going on

$ appres Emacs|grep WINDOW_FOREGROUND
Warning: Color name "WINDOW_BACKGROUND" is not defined
*Entry.foreground:      WINDOW_FOREGROUND
*Entry.activeForeground:        WINDOW_FOREGROUND
*Entry.highlightColor:  WINDOW_FOREGROUND
*XmList.foreground:     WINDOW_FOREGROUND
*List.foreground:       WINDOW_FOREGROUND
*Listbox.foreground:    WINDOW_FOREGROUND
*Listbox.activeForeground:      WINDOW_FOREGROUND
*Listbox.highlightColor:        WINDOW_FOREGROUND
*XmText.foreground:     WINDOW_FOREGROUND
*XmTextField.foreground:        WINDOW_FOREGROUND
*rvplayer*Label.BorderColor:    WINDOW_FOREGROUND
*rvplayer*MenuButton.BorderColor:       WINDOW_FOREGROUND
*rvplayer*Command.BorderColor:  WINDOW_FOREGROUND
*Text.foreground:       WINDOW_FOREGROUND
*Text.activeForeground: WINDOW_FOREGROUND
*Text.highlightColor:   WINDOW_FOREGROUND
*Canvas.foreground:     WINDOW_FOREGROUND
*Canvas.activeForeground:       WINDOW_FOREGROUND
*Canvas.highlightColor: WINDOW_FOREGROUND
Emacs.default.attributeForeground:      WINDOW_FOREGROUND
Emacs*Foreground:       WINDOW_FOREGROUND

I have no idea what is going on. Any suggestions? Comments?

-- I guess I should stop working, today.

jxy · 2009-10-31 22:20:28

It is easy to fix. I downgraded xorg-server-utils to 7.4-7, and everything works again. I tried to run appres Emacs, again. But there is no more FOREGROUND/BACKGROUD strings.

bernarcher · 2009-11-01 02:51:52

Which emacs package do you use?
I have no problem with emacs-cvs 20091008-1 using the most recent xorg-server-utils 7.5-2 (running in openbox).

But so I have only:

$ appres emacs
emacs.geometry:    83x37
*customization:    -color

Did you make any extra customizations?

jxy · 2009-11-01 03:10:16

I do have customizations. But these FORGROUND/BACKGROUND are not added by me. It looks to me that it is introduced by the new xorg-server-utils package, because appres does not return these strings if I use the old version.

jxy · 2009-11-01 03:50:28

I find out that these colors are set by kde, when I let it "apply colors to non kde applications". After I uncheck the option and logout/login, there are not these unknown color names anymore. So I guess the upgrade breaks kde somehow.

Holy Monkey · 2009-11-01 14:08:40

I have the exact same problem with emacs not loading, I'm running fully upto date Arch64 with the testing repo enabled. thankfully unchecking "apply colors to non kde applications" worked for me too.

jxy · 2009-11-01 15:31:38

Just tried the new xorg-server-utils 7.5-3, and everything works again. So I guess there was a bug that got fixed in this new release.

bernarcher · 2009-11-01 18:20:06

Verified here with xorg-server-utils 7.5-3

Arch Linux

#1 2009-10-31 22:16:01

Cannot start emacs after upgrade.

#2 2009-10-31 22:20:28

Re: Cannot start emacs after upgrade.

#3 2009-11-01 02:51:52

Re: Cannot start emacs after upgrade.

#4 2009-11-01 03:10:16

Re: Cannot start emacs after upgrade.

#5 2009-11-01 03:50:28

Re: Cannot start emacs after upgrade.

#6 2009-11-01 14:08:40

Re: Cannot start emacs after upgrade.

#7 2009-11-01 15:31:38

Re: Cannot start emacs after upgrade.

#8 2009-11-01 18:20:06

Re: Cannot start emacs after upgrade.

Board footer