From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: flycheck mode gives error: file-missing "Doing vfork"
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 15:58:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilsoh4nm.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y21ky0fn.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Tue, 08 Mar 2022 14:38:04 +0000")
>>>>> On Tue, 08 Mar 2022 14:38:04 +0000, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> said:
Eric> Hello all,
Eric> I am trying to start using flycheck (installed from MELPA) for prose
Eric> checking. I have installed proselint. When I try to start up
Eric> flycheck-mode, I get the error:
Eric> Error while checking syntax automatically:
Eric> (file-missing "Doing vfork" "No such file or directory")
Eric> which tells me absolutely nothing that I can follow up on to try to fix
Eric> whatever is wrong. I've tried searching in flycheck itself for "Doing
Eric> vfork" but no luck. Does anybody have any idea what to do or what I am
Eric> doing wrong?
That error is generated by emacs when it tries to spawn a process, and
then canʼt find it. Iʼd search for `call-process' or `make-process',
in flycheck and/or proselint and see if the program itʼs trying to run
can be found by emacs using `executable-find'. If not, you may need to
adjust your `exec-path' or a configuration variable.
You could also try setting `debug-on-error' to t, but I guess flycheck
might trap errors.
Robert
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-08 14:38 flycheck mode gives error: file-missing "Doing vfork" Eric S Fraga
2022-03-08 14:58 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2022-03-08 15:15 ` Eric S Fraga
2022-03-08 16:38 ` Robert Pluim
2022-03-08 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
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