Subject: Re: bug#27804: 26.0.50; Emacs backgrounds itself during package-list-packages on WSL

From: Angelo Graziosi <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 20:14:18 +0200

Il 25/07/2017 16:59, Josh Howard ha scritto:
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 7:19 AM
>>
>>> From: Angelo Graziosi <[email-masked]>
>>> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 00:49:10 +0200
>>>
>>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>> Definitely not an Emacs problem.
>>>
>>> How, then, do you explain that Emacs 24.3, both installed with WSL
>>> package manager (apt) and rebuilding it from source (see also this
>>> thread [1]), work just fine?
>>
>> It doesn't seem to be the case, as at least one of the participants in
>> the discussion of that issue said the problem happened in Emacs 24 as
>> well.
>>
>> And even if some change in Emacs exposed that bug, it doesn't yet mean
>> the bug is in Emacs.
> 
> Correct, this is reproducible (for me) on both emacs24 and emacs26. I did not try emacs25.
Have you tried emacs-24.3? Current WSL install 24.5 which fails with the 
packages manager. Being emacs25 > emacs24.3 it fails too...

My experience is that Emacs > 24.3 fails (24.5, 25.x 26.x)

You can build it yourself:

wget 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/snapshot/emacs-emacs-24.3.tar.gz

tar -xf emacs-emacs-24.3.tar.gz

cd emacs-emacs-24.3
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/home/emacs24.3 --with-x=no [--with-LIB=no]
make
make install

See if it background itself... with the packages manager..