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

[Angelo Graziosi]

Il 25/07/2017 16:59, Josh Howard ha scritto:
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 7:19 AM
> >
> > > From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
> > > 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..