From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: M-x shell not working Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:28:20 -0600 Message-ID: References: <13ecef2d0510172334jd0c4e65i7cec30e4fd522811@mail.gmail.com> <708ac6dccd5c5bcbc601b8ebb3760da0@Web.DE> <13ecef2d0510180456p67bb4175ld3fa440af1f5390f@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129660451 12783 80.91.229.2 (18 Oct 2005 18:34:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:34:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 18 20:34:09 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERwG8-0000gc-J7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:32:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERwG7-0005hb-TL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:32:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ERwFu-0005hU-Ox for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:32:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ERwFt-0005hI-9m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:32:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERwFt-0005hF-7N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:32:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1ERwFt-0008SB-1M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:32:09 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ERwEK-00009s-Pr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:30:32 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:30:32 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:30:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <13ecef2d0510180456p67bb4175ld3fa440af1f5390f@mail.gmail.com> 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:30341 Archived-At: Sunil Yeddu wrote: > I also noticed that setting TERM env to any value is causing shell > to exit. I removed the line which sets TERM env from my cshrc and I was > able to access shell !!! But the warning message is still there. > > Warning: no access to tty (Bad file descriptor). > Thus no job control in this shell. > > And setting TERM env in it is causing the shell to exit > immediately. I guess this is because of tty not being allocated. From > the shell in emacs when I type tty, I see... > $ tty > not a tty > > So there is no solution to the original problem yet, as removing > the line which sets TERM env cannot be a permanent solution. But moving it to your .login file where it belongs is a solution. -- Kevin Rodgers