From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33510: 26.1.90; M-x man crashes if invoking man fails Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 19:18:48 +0200 Message-ID: <834lc3iwp3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <838t1fizcq.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1543252797 26010 195.159.176.226 (26 Nov 2018 17:19:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 17:19:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 33510@debbugs.gnu.org To: Richard Copley Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 26 18:19:53 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gRKY5-0006dh-B4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 18:19:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37912 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRKaB-0001i9-Qx for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:22:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53230) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRKYJ-0000Vr-7Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:20:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRKYE-0005Ae-5t for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:20:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:45804) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRKYE-0005AV-2i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:20:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gRKYD-0004bm-TW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:20:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 17:20:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 33510 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 33510-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B33510.154325274817641 (code B ref 33510); Mon, 26 Nov 2018 17:20:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 33510) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Nov 2018 17:19:08 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50062 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gRKXJ-0004aR-UC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:19:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43419) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gRKXI-0004Zv-2Z for 33510@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:19:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRKX0-0004K4-Lo for 33510@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:18:53 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52177) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRKWy-0004JJ-OX; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:18:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1149 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gRKWw-0005C3-V8; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:18:44 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Richard Copley on Mon, 26 Nov 2018 17:02:33 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:152792 Archived-At: [Please use Reply All to have the discussion recorded by the tracker.] > From: Richard Copley > Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 17:02:33 +0000 > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 at 16:21, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > From: Richard Copley > > Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:34:41 +0000 > > > > If invoking 'man' fails, M-x man crashes, with errors: > > error in process sentinel: read-event: Buffer is read-only: # > > error in process sentinel: Buffer is read-only: # > > Signaling an error is a far cry from a crash... > > Yes, sorry. > > > To reproduce from 'emacs -Q': > > M-x man RET > > xyzzy RET > > I cannot reproduce this, at least not on GNU/Linux: there, I get > > Can't find the xyzzy manpage > > as expected. On MS-Windows I get this instead: > > No manual entry for xyzzy. > > So I think the problem is triggered by something done by the 'man' > port you have installed (an MSYS2 'man', perhaps?). What does it say > if you invoke it from the shell prompt? > > There was no "man" on the path. (Sorry, I didn't realize that at the time.) Ah, okay. With that, I _can_ reproduce the error.