bug#13532: menuacc bug

bug#13532: menuacc bug

[John Sampson]

From: jrs.idx@ntlworld.com
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: 24.2; menuacc
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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug, and
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starting from `emacs -Q':

On starting Emacs 24.2 on Windows 7 Home Premium, an error message about
"load file menuacc" appears. Starting in debug mode, the message is:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "menuacc")
   require(menuacc)
   mapc(require (menuacc))
   custom-theme-set-variables(user (cua-mode t nil (cua-base)) 
(emacsw32-max-frames t) (emacsw32-mode t) (emacsw32-style-frame-title t) 
(htmlize-view-print-visible t t) (menuacc-active t nil (menuacc)) 
(recentf-mode t) (swbuff-y-mode t) (w32-meta-style (quote w32-lr)) 
(w32-print-menu-show-print nil) (w32-print-menu-show-ps-print nil) 
(w32shell-shell (quote cmd)))
   apply(custom-theme-set-variables user ((cua-mode t nil (cua-base)) 
(emacsw32-max-frames t) (emacsw32-mode t) (emacsw32-style-frame-title t) 
(htmlize-view-print-visible t t) (menuacc-active t nil (menuacc)) 
(recentf-mode t) (swbuff-y-mode t) (w32-meta-style (quote w32-lr)) 
(w32-print-menu-show-print nil) (w32-print-menu-show-ps-print nil) 
(w32shell-shell (quote cmd))))
   custom-set-variables((cua-mode t nil (cua-base)) (emacsw32-max-frames 
t) (emacsw32-mode t) (emacsw32-style-frame-title t) 
(htmlize-view-print-visible t t) (menuacc-active t nil (menuacc)) 
(recentf-mode t) (swbuff-y-mode t) (w32-meta-style (quote w32-lr)) 
(w32-print-menu-show-print nil) (w32-print-menu-show-ps-print nil) 
(w32shell-shell (quote cmd)))
   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "c:/emacs-23.4/.emacs" nil t)  ; 
Reading at buffer position 604
   load-with-code-conversion("c:/emacs-23.4/.emacs" 
"c:/emacs-23.4/.emacs" t t)
   load("~/.emacs" t t)
   #[0 "\b\205\262


If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
     `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file
c:/emacs-24.2/etc/DEBUG.


In GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601)
  of 2012-08-29 on MARVIN
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
  `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --cflags
  -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include
  -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src
  -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include
  -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include
  -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include
  -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include
  -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include
  -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include'

Important settings:
   value of $LC_ALL: nil
   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
   value of $LC_TIME: nil
   value of $LANG: ENG
   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
   locale-coding-system: cp1252
   default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
   recentf-mode: t
   tooltip-mode: t
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   tool-bar-mode: t
   menu-bar-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
   global-font-lock-mode: t
   blink-cursor-mode: t
   auto-composition-mode: t
   auto-encryption-mode: t
   auto-compression-mode: t
   line-number-mode: t
   transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
M-x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g <return>

Recent messages:
Loading cua-base...done
Loading recentf...done
Loading c:/emacs-23.4/.recentf...done
Cleaning up the recentf list...done (0 removed)
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml
mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev
gmm-utils mailheader sendmail regexp-opt rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums
mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils warnings recentf tree-widget wid-edit
easymenu cua-base cus-start cus-load time-date tooltip ediff-hook
vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 disp-table ls-lisp w32-win
w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page
menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock
syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang
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romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese
case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs
button faces cus-face files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64
format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable
backquote make-network-process multi-tty emacs)

bug#13532: menuacc bug

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:02:09 +0000
> From: John Sampson <jrs.idx@ntlworld.com>
> 
> On starting Emacs 24.2 on Windows 7 Home Premium, an error message about
> "load file menuacc" appears. Starting in debug mode, the message is:
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "menuacc")
>    require(menuacc)
>    mapc(require (menuacc))
>    custom-theme-set-variables(user (cua-mode t nil (cua-base)) 

This is something with your customizations in .emacs.  There's no
package named "menuacc" in Emacs, and no part of the CUA package
refers to such a package.

Please examine your ~/.emacs file for the cause of this problem.

bug#13532: menuacc bug

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:16:26 +0000
> From: John Sampson <jrs.idx@ntlworld.com>
> 
> > Please examine your ~/.emacs file for the cause of this problem.
> >
> >
> I installed by unzipping emacs-24.2-bin-i386.zip as obtained from
> http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/ which I assume is official.

Yes, it is official.

> I have done no customizations.

I meant the customizations in your .emacs file.  According to your
report, the error happens when your .emacs is loaded:

   load-with-code-conversion("c:/emacs-23.4/.emacs" "c:/emacs-23.4/.emacs" t t)
   load("~/.emacs" t t)

> When I do unzip I see that two main folders are made - emacs-23.4
> and emacs-24.2.

There's no emacs-23.4 directory in emacs-24.2-bin-i386.zip that is on
the GNU site above.  Perhaps you have a zip to which someone added
some files, or maybe your zip file got corrupted somehow.  Try
downloading the same zip file again.

P.S.  Please keep the bug report on the CC list, so that this
discussion gets recorded by the bug tracker.

bug#13532: menuacc bug

[John Sampson]

On 23/01/2013 17:53, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:16:26 +0000
>> From: John Sampson <jrs.idx@ntlworld.com>
>>
>>> Please examine your ~/.emacs file for the cause of this problem.
>>>
>>>
>> I installed by unzipping emacs-24.2-bin-i386.zip as obtained from
>> http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/ which I assume is official.
> Yes, it is official.
>
>> I have done no customizations.
> I meant the customizations in your .emacs file.  According to your
> report, the error happens when your .emacs is loaded:
>
>     load-with-code-conversion("c:/emacs-23.4/.emacs" "c:/emacs-23.4/.emacs" t t)
>     load("~/.emacs" t t)
>
>> When I do unzip I see that two main folders are made - emacs-23.4
>> and emacs-24.2.
> There's no emacs-23.4 directory in emacs-24.2-bin-i386.zip that is on
> the GNU site above.  Perhaps you have a zip to which someone added
> some files, or maybe your zip file got corrupted somehow.  Try
> downloading the same zip file again.
>
> P.S.  Please keep the bug report on the CC list, so that this
> discussion gets recorded by the bug tracker.
>
>
I have downloaded and unpacked again, after deleting the two folders I 
mentioned. This time there is
only one folder, emacs-24.2. Running emacs now causes the error message 
"Creating directory:
no such file or directory, c:/emacs-23.4/.emacs.d/

Presumably there is an out-of-date file in the distribution.

bug#13532: menuacc bug

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:39:23 +0000
> From: John Sampson <jrs.idx@ntlworld.com>
> CC: 13532@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I have downloaded and unpacked again, after deleting the two folders I 
> mentioned. This time there is
> only one folder, emacs-24.2. Running emacs now causes the error message 
> "Creating directory:
> no such file or directory, c:/emacs-23.4/.emacs.d/

I'm guessing that your HOME environment variable points to
"c:/emacs-23.4".  You need to point it to an existing directory,
preferably one outside the Emacs directory (so that removing the
directory won't remove your .emacs file).

bug#13532: menuacc bug

[John Sampson]

On 24/01/2013 03:45, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:39:23 +0000
>> From: John Sampson <jrs.idx@ntlworld.com>
>> CC: 13532@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> I have downloaded and unpacked again, after deleting the two folders I
>> mentioned. This time there is
>> only one folder, emacs-24.2. Running emacs now causes the error message
>> "Creating directory:
>> no such file or directory, c:/emacs-23.4/.emacs.d/
> I'm guessing that your HOME environment variable points to
> "c:/emacs-23.4".  You need to point it to an existing directory,
> preferably one outside the Emacs directory (so that removing the
> directory won't remove your .emacs file).
>
>
Many thanks. I have changed HOME to point to an unrelated folder, and 
now Emacs
runs normally. I notice that c:/emacs-23.4 has reappeared.

Regards

John

bug#13532: menuacc bug

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:37:13 +0000
> From: John Sampson <jrs.idx@ntlworld.com>
> CC: 13532@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On 24/01/2013 03:45, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:39:23 +0000
> >> From: John Sampson <jrs.idx@ntlworld.com>
> >> CC: 13532@debbugs.gnu.org
> >>
> >> I have downloaded and unpacked again, after deleting the two folders I
> >> mentioned. This time there is
> >> only one folder, emacs-24.2. Running emacs now causes the error message
> >> "Creating directory:
> >> no such file or directory, c:/emacs-23.4/.emacs.d/
> > I'm guessing that your HOME environment variable points to
> > "c:/emacs-23.4".  You need to point it to an existing directory,
> > preferably one outside the Emacs directory (so that removing the
> > directory won't remove your .emacs file).
> >
> >
> Many thanks. I have changed HOME to point to an unrelated folder, and 
> now Emacs
> runs normally. I notice that c:/emacs-23.4 has reappeared.

Thanks, closing the bug.