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: Re: Strange emacs-X interaction. Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:58:36 -0400 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200407121558.i6CFwaDJ026484@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 1089648116 25516 80.91.224.253 (12 Jul 2004 16:01:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:01:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 12 18:01:48 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 1Bk3FU-0004QH-00 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:01:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bk3Ho-0007Il-8p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:04:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bk3Er-0005zI-Cf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:01:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bk3Eo-0005yw-Uo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:01:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bk3Eo-0005ys-LH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:01:06 -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 1Bk3CP-0003uU-9t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:58:37 -0400 Original-Received: from melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (MELBOURNE-CITY-STREET.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.86]) by biscayne-one-station.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.9.2) with ESMTP id i6CFwa4M018522 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:58:36 -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 melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id i6CFwaOm010946 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:58:36 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from ocschwar@localhost) by home-on-the-dome.mit.edu (8.12.9) id i6CFwaDJ026484; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:58:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:19596 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19596 Kai Grossjohann wrote: >"Omri Schwarz" writes: >> address@bogus.example.com main]$ emacs >> Wrong type argument: stringp, nil >> address@bogus.example.com main]$ >Very strange problem. Try "emacs -q -no-site-file" and also "emacs >-q". If the first starts up then there must be an error in the init >files, and if the second also starts, then it must in in ~/.emacs. Thank you for your suggestion: [omri@alpheratz omri]$ /usr/bin/emacs -q Wrong type argument: stringp, nil [omri@alpheratz omri]$ /usr/bin/emacs -q -no-site-file Wrong type argument: stringp, nil [omri@alpheratz omri]$ /usr/bin/emacs -q --no-site-file Wrong type argument: stringp, nil So neither of them start up. This BTW is the standard RedHat emacs install. A manual install of gnu.org's emacs works fine.