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From: newsspam5REMOVETHIS@robf.de
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to debug "Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function nil)"
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 22:17:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85odlyfwok.fsf@robf.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 85wt0mfxcz.fsf@robf.de

newsspam5REMOVETHIS@robf.de writes:
[...]
> O.K. here is my current status on this, with Debian
>
>   emacs21/testing uptodate 21.4a+1-3
>   vm/testing uptodate 7.19-11
>
> An the ~/.emacs containing only this single line:
>
>   (setq debug-on-error t)
>
> When I run
>
>   emacs21 -f vm
>
> I get the backtrace
>
>   Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function nil)
>   (nil)
>
> I am really puzzled now ...
>
> I am running emacs under a different account than the X session
> and used .XAuthority to allow it to connect to my X session.
>
> When I run it as
>
>   emacs21 -nw -f vm
>
> the error does not occur.
>
> Gosh, I should have tried the Debian packages earlier ... thanks
> for tip.
>
> Still this is odd and I do not really understand it.

I just verified that it is not related to a .XAuthority / xhost
issue, i.e. it also happens if I run Emacs under the user running
the X session.

I will reboot now ;-/

Robert

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-08 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-13 23:13 How to debug "Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function nil)" newsspam5REMOVETHIS
2007-03-14  7:06 ` Tim X
2007-03-31 23:51   ` newsspam5REMOVETHIS
2007-04-01  1:47     ` Tim X
2007-04-08 20:02       ` newsspam5REMOVETHIS
2007-04-08 20:17         ` newsspam5REMOVETHIS [this message]
2007-04-01  0:01   ` newsspam5REMOVETHIS
2007-04-01  2:04     ` Tim X
2007-04-08 19:14       ` newsspam5REMOVETHIS
2007-04-01  2:05     ` Tim X
2007-04-08 20:04       ` newsspam5REMOVETHIS
2007-04-09  5:16         ` Tim X
2007-04-09  9:38           ` Tim X
2007-04-09 20:17           ` newsspam5REMOVETHIS

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