bug#46607: 25.2; Emacs hangs with Error running timer 'blink-cursor-start'

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> writes:

>>   (let* ((time t1) (high (car-safe (prog
>>   time-add(nil 10)

OK, so your `time-add' is definitely an Emacs Lisp function.  But:

> It says
>
>> time-add is a built-in function in ‘C source code’.
>> (time-add A B)

Your Emacs claims that `time-add' is a built-in C function.  So something
is very odd here.

And:

> On a bare-bones Mint 19 with no .emacs and using emacs -Q (capital Q)
> the *messages* buffer contains:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Checking for load-path shadows...
> > Checking 255 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp...
> > Checking 41 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/vc...
> > Checking 33 files in /usr/share/emacs/25.2/lisp/url...

Your Emacs is issuing some messages that Emacs do not normally do on
loadup -- even with an "emacs -Q", which should be impossible.

I can only guess at what's going on, but the most likely explanation for
these very strange behaviours is that the people who have packed up your
Emacs version (in Mint 19) have done some highly non-standard things.
So you should perhaps report this as a bug with the Mint people instead.

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