From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Omri Schwarz" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Strange emacs-X interaction. Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:40:11 -0400 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200407081740.i68HeB5I014292@home-on-the-dome.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1089308442 13598 80.91.224.253 (8 Jul 2004 17:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 17:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 08 19:40:31 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bicso-0003Ov-00 for ; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 19:40:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bicuw-0004BN-S5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:42:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bicun-00049x-Gg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:42:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bicul-00048Y-PB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:42:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bicul-00048V-M0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:42:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [18.7.7.80] (helo=biscayne-one-station.mit.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1BicsW-0001Yh-Fp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:40:12 -0400 Original-Received: from manawatu-mail-centre.mit.edu (MANAWATU-MAIL-CENTRE.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.71]) by biscayne-one-station.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.9.2) with ESMTP id i68HeCUv002289; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 13:40:12 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from home-on-the-dome.mit.edu (HOME-ON-THE-DOME.MIT.EDU [18.7.16.76]) (authenticated bits=56) (User authenticated as ocschwar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by manawatu-mail-centre.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id i68HeBoL008351; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 13:40:11 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from ocschwar@localhost) by home-on-the-dome.mit.edu (8.12.9) id i68HeB5I014292; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 13:40:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0 Original-To: X-Nsa-Fodder: GPG RSA IPO buffer overflow exploit X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19527 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19527 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