emacs-devel glib-warning

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday, December 22, 2011 10:02:09 am 1126 wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I considered switching from emacs23 to emacs24 over the 
> christmas-holidays.. So I removed emacs23 and installed emacs-devel via 
> ports. Emacs runs fine, in terminal, but it crashes my whole X-system when 
> I try to start it as X-client... The error message tells me that there is 
> a glib-problem: "GLib-WARNING **: In call to g_spawn_sync(), exit status 
> of a child process was requested but SIGCHLD action was set to SIG_IGN and 
> ECHILD was received by waitpid(), so exit status can't be returned. This 
> is a bug in the program calling g_spawn_sync(); either don't request the 
> exit status, or don't set the SIGCHLD action."

That is just a bug in emacs (or some library emacs is using).  It happens even 
when emacs doesn't crash.  I suspect it is unrelated to the problem you are 
having with your X server and that the crash is caused by something else emacs 
is doing.  What do you mean in detail by "crashes my whole X-system".  Does X 
actually core dump?  Does X freeze or spin using 100% CPU?  Does your window 
manager crash, etc.?

One thing you can maybe try is building emacs without dbus or gconf and seeing 
if that works better.

-- 
John Baldwin