Startup hanging at blank screen - after change theme to "solarized-light" macOS

[gminorcoles]

I am new to emacs. I installed it on my AWS workstation but last night I also installed emacs and doom on my Mac, thinking maybe I could remote into the instance on my AWS machine. I saw someone on the internet had this “solarized-light” theme and it seems to be included in doom.

I changed the theme in config.el to solarized-light and then ran doom sync. I then started up emacs and instead of the splash / home screen the screen is just blank. It seems to stay that way until I start hitting the : key. When the home screen does appear, nothing seems to work - no key combinations really work. The theme does seem like it was applied but it looks different in the terminal which I am using vs the screenhots I saw of the other user.

When I revert back to the default theme this problem instantly goes away.

[tecosaur]

What happens if you try changing the theme via SPC h t / C-h t (consult-theme)?

[gminorcoles]

hi. When I do that the theme changes but then when I exit emacs and re-enter, the theme reverts to what was in the config. is that expected behavior?

[tecosaur]

Yes, that just confirms that the theme can load without issue.

Now in your config do you have (setq doom-theme 'doom-solarized-light)?

[gminorcoles]

I commented it out and went back to the default theme.

[tecosaur]

I’m saying you should check your spelling