failure with temporary file on Mac OSX

failure with temporary file on Mac OSX

[Ivan Kanis]

Hello,

I am getting the following strange error message:

apply: Failed to open temporary file: Interrupted system call, emacsXXXXXX

I am running emacs 23.2 that I compiled with NS. I am seeing the error
while using gnus and displaying MIME messages. The error doesn't always
happen. When I select the mail a second time it's usually OK.

So what gives? Any suggestions on troubleshooting this are welcome!
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Re: failure with temporary file on Mac OSX

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ Ivan Kanis <expire-by-2010-07-09@kanis.fr>:

> I am getting the following strange error message:
> 
> apply: Failed to open temporary file: Interrupted system call, emacsXXXXXX
> 
> I am running emacs 23.2 that I compiled with NS. I am seeing the error
> while using gnus and displaying MIME messages. The error doesn't always
> happen. When I select the mail a second time it's usually OK.
> 
> So what gives? Any suggestions on troubleshooting this are welcome!

Try to turn on debugging and post the traceback.

M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET

Then trigger the error. Hopefully, you will get a buffer *Backtrace*.
Copy its contents to the list, and maybe someone can work out what
happened and why.

To clean up, type q in the *Backtrace* buffer to quit the debugger and
revert the setting of the debug-on-error variable:

M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET nil RET

- Harald