From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Strange errors under debian Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:43:06 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <874q0wob5h.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145004085 5906 80.91.229.2 (14 Apr 2006 08:41:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:41:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 14 10:41:20 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUJrh-0001eH-60 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:41:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUJrg-000192-K8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 04:41:16 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!sn-xt-sjc-04!sn-xt-sjc-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:snr5pIemJJzyy3RMTle9OtxCJpM= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 60 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:138744 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:34362 Archived-At: anakreonmejdi@yahoo.gr writes: > I posted few days ago a report on errors > with emacs. This issue is very important to me > because I can not invoke commands like compile > and need to manually save each buffer now. > > The problem with the error is that the message > reported provides no hints to me about the cause. > > Could someone give guidelines in order to detect > the cause of the problem? > > If I sart emacs with --debug-init command line > flag the messages reported are the same. > > Original Message: > I have this messages in emacs under debian > and can't figure out what's wrong. > > M-x compile > It only produces the message:Searching for program: success > > M-x grep-find: > The same > > M-x shell: > Searching for program: no such file or directory > > -- > Three words describe our society:homo homini lupus > If you want some assistance, you need to provide more precise information. To start with What version of Debian? (stable, testing, unstable, experimental etc) What version of Emacs? (20, 21, 22 snapshot etc) Are you running under X or console mode? What shell are you using? Have you applied all necessary updates? What is in your .emacs file and have you tried starting with the -q switch and seeing if you get the same problems? Answers to these will probably create more questions, but at least will narrow down some of the possible causes. The errors you report indicate a misconfigured system. We need to try and identify what is incorrect. I've never seen messages like the ones you are reporting. I'm running both emacs 21 and emacs22 snapshot from experimental, but my system is mostly Debian Etch (unstable). Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au