Re: Emacs insists on starting dbus?

[Jan Djärv]

Hello.

Add --without-gsettings also.

        Jan D.

31 jul 2012 kl. 16:49 skrev Harald Hanche-Olsen:

> Short version: I built emacs with --without-dbus,
> yet when I run emacs -Q, it runs dbus-launch.
> 
> Why? Surely, this is not the way it should be?
> 
> Slightly longer version: I am on Ubuntu, fresh emacs source from
> trunk, and ./config.status -V outputs this:
> emacs config.status 24.1.50
> configured by ../configure, generated by GNU Autoconf 2.65,
>  with options "'--without-dbus' 
> '--prefix=/global/work/hanche/pkg/emacs/2012-07-31' '--with-gif=no' 
> '--with-x-toolkit=lucid'"
> And here is what happens:
> ; strace -f -e execve /global/work/hanche/pkg/emacs/current/bin/emacs -Q
> Process 31127 attached
> [...]
> [pid 31127] execve("/usr/bin/dbus-launch", ["dbus-launch", "--autolaunch", 
> "2873e88d4c5664b2024eb9654eddd59c", "--binary-syntax", "--close-stderr"], [/* 
> 205 vars */]) = 0
> [...]
> 
> A bit of background: This is on a server running as a virtual machine.
> I would like to have an emacs daemon running on this server that I can
> connect to and use (with x11) when I ssh into the machine. But when I
> am done using my emacs windows and have closed them all, ssh still
> hangs around when I log out because the dbus process(es) are hanging
> onto one or two x11 connections tunneled by ssh. The only workaround I
> see is to kill those dbus processes by hand, which is a bother.
> 
> I'd file a bug report, but I wanted to ask here first if this is a bug
> or a feature. And if the latter, how do I work around it?
> 
> - Harald