From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: M-x shell not working Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:45:53 +0200 Message-ID: References: <13ecef2d0510172334jd0c4e65i7cec30e4fd522811@mail.gmail.com> <708ac6dccd5c5bcbc601b8ebb3760da0@Web.DE> <13ecef2d0510180456p67bb4175ld3fa440af1f5390f@mail.gmail.com> <13ecef2d0510182336u1726e9e0o8c3b052e88dfcb28@mail.gmail.com> <75f08c867c1336e7bf540f392c99da04@Web.DE> <5b5f1e9f3d41ab624f80b055050cb0f1@Web.DE> <13ecef2d0510200309v19be5860g8d85c8ebcfd70585@mail.gmail.com> <6172b6c2efe01b4025c9d58fe9624236@Web.DE> <13ecef2d0510200503o311c75e9h5926c4c2df49ab55@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129818148 25907 80.91.229.2 (20 Oct 2005 14:22:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:22:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 20 16:22:26 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESbG9-0006JP-TY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:19:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESbG9-0007tX-B1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:19:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESakM-0000kE-9m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:46:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESakK-0000iW-Gq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:46:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESakI-0000ht-MZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:46:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ESakI-0006Gq-Nk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:46:14 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-148-220.inter.net.il [80.230.148.220]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.8-GR) with ESMTP id CTI34076 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:45:49 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: <13ecef2d0510200503o311c75e9h5926c4c2df49ab55@mail.gmail.com> (message from Sunil Yeddu on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:03:54 -0700) 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:30403 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:03:54 -0700 > From: Sunil Yeddu > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > Clearcase is a source control system. Like CVS. This whole problem is > happening only inside a clearcase view. No, ClearCase is _not_ just another source control system, and it surely isn't like CVS. To support dynamic views, ClearCase defines virtual filesystems, which AFAIK no other VC system does. It also does other virulent changes to the normal Unix environment; in particular, setting a view spawns a new shell. > This fact points out that there is some change in emacs-21.4. There were gazillions of changes between Emacs 20.7 and 21.4. Some of them somehow interact badly with the shell used by ClearCase and with your shell startup files. There's no way that we could help you unless you debug the problem(s) on your system and pinpoint the line(s) in your shell startup files that cause these error messages. When you post that information, it is reasonable to expect someone to come up with an idea how to fix the problem.