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From: "Omri Schwarz" <ocschwar@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Strange emacs-X interaction.
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:40:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200407081740.i68HeB5I014292@home-on-the-dome.mit.edu> (raw)

Hi, everyone.

I'm managing a machine running Redhat 9 + Fedora Legacy, 
one that is showing some strange behavior.
Starting emacs with "emacs -nw" works exactly as expected.
But regular emacs refuses to startup. it just
exits with this error message:

[omri@somehost main]$ emacs
Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
[omri@somehost main]$ 

This is the error message I get for any attempt
to launch emacs in its own window. This happens
when I do --debug-init, and when I've cleared the 
X resources database completely. 

[root@somehost main]# rpm -q emacs
emacs-21.2-33
[root@somehost main]# emacs --version
GNU Emacs 21.2.1
Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Apart from xrdb, is there anywhere I should look
for more useful information?

Thanks in advance,

Omri

             reply	other threads:[~2004-07-08 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-08 17:40 Omri Schwarz [this message]
2004-07-10 17:10 ` Strange emacs-X interaction Kai Grossjohann
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-12 15:58 Omri Schwarz

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