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From: Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Symbol's value as variable is void: \211PNG
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 23:09:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eihqt5ro.fsf@merciadriluca-station.MERCIADRILUCA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k4ri4l0j.fsf@lola.goethe.zz

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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just turned my computer on today, and realized that my emacs no
>> longer worked.
>>
>> When I start it, just as habitually, I encounter the *Messages*
>> buffer, with some unuseful stuff, and then
>>
>> ==
>> An error has occured while loading `/home/merciadriluca/.emacs':
>>
>> Symbol's value as variable is void: \211PNG
>> ==
>>
>> The result of debug-init is
>>
>> ==
>> Debugger entered--Listp error: (void-variable \211PNG)
>>          eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*<2>> nil
>>          "/home/merciadriluca/auctex-11.86/auctex.el" nil t) ; Reading
>>          at buffer position 5
>>          load-with-code-conversion("/home/merciadriluca/auctex-11.86/auctex.el"
>>          "/home/merciadriluca/auctex-11.86/auctex.el" nil t)
>>          load("~/auctex-11.86/auctex.el" nil t t)
>
> [...]
>
> I consider it most likely that your file
> "/home/merciadriluca/auctex-11.86/auctex.el" has been overwritten with a
> graphics file, due to user error or file system corruption.
This is the case. Its content was like a binary content. Really
weird. I replaced it, and everything now works. Thanks, David!

- -- 
Merciadri Luca
See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
- -- 

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss
 of enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill)
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      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-05 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-05 11:44 Symbol's value as variable is void: \211PNG Merciadri Luca
2010-05-05 11:59 ` David Kastrup
2010-05-05 21:09   ` Merciadri Luca [this message]

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