M-x shell: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable s)

M-x shell: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable s)

[odoncaoa]

Greetings,

I'm running GNU Emacs v21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt.5.1.2600) on Windoze XPro. I'm trying to track down a problem that I'm having while trying to configure it to use Cygwin Bash, and UWin Ksh. The *nix environments have been successfully installed and configured, and function correctly on XP. I've got a bunch of code to facilitate the execution of these shells within emacs, however after emacs successfully executes all of this configuration code, I get the following error after attempting to instanciate either shell (M-x shell):

	Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable s)
	  execute-extended-command(nil)
	* call-interactively(execute-extended-command)

I'm aware of defshell I'm wondering if anyone might have experienced a similar failure, and what their fix was. The following is the output of the result of the execution of my emacs initialization code.

	Loading regexp-opt...done
	Loaded ctypes
	Loading pcmpl-auto (source)...done
	Loading mule-util...done
	Loading ~/.Elisp/nxml-mode-20040910/rng-auto.el (source)...done
	Loading rsz-mini...done
	Loading hilit-java...done
	Loading setnu...done
	Loaded font-lock
	Loading odoncaoaEmacsFuncs...
	
	---> File being loaded ~/.emacs
	--> ~/.emacs done
	Loading odoncaoaEmacsFuncs...done
	--> Processing UWIN
	
	--> uwin-dir        = /usr/bin;
	--> Processing UWIN: got to here 1
	--> SHELL = ksh
	--> UWIN done
	--> .emacs: shell2use = 'ksh'
	Loaded generic-mode
	Loaded vc
	Loaded avltree
	Loading easymenu...done
	Loading tool-bar...done
	Loaded wiki
	Loaded tidy
	Loaded Ruby
	Loaded dircolors
	Located ange-ftp
	Loaded cl
	Loaded gnuserv
	--> Starting GNUServ
	--> GNUServ running
	Loaded time-stamp
	Loading desktop...done
	
	--> ~/.emacs DONE
	For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
	Loading lazy-lock...done
	Loading shell...
	call-interactively: 
	Loading debug...done
	Entering debugger...
	 [2 times]
	Mark set [3 times]
	call-interactively: Beginning of buffer [2 times]
	
Cheers,

odoncaoa


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Re: M-x shell: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable s)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "odoncaoa" <odoncoa@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:37:19 GMT
> 
> I'm running GNU Emacs v21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt.5.1.2600) on Windoze XPro. I'm trying to track down a problem that I'm having while trying to configure it to use Cygwin Bash, and UWin Ksh. The *nix environments have been successfully installed and configured, and function correctly on XP. I've got a bunch of code to facilitate the execution of these shells within emacs, however after emacs successfully executes all of this configuration code, I get the following error after attempting to instanciate either shell (M-x shell):
> 
> 	Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable s)
> 	  execute-extended-command(nil)
> 	* call-interactively(execute-extended-command)

It's something in your .emacs.  Unless you post it here, I don't think
anyone will be able top help you.  (Ideally find the smallest part in
.emacs that, if removed, makes the problem go away.

Re: M-x shell: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable s)

[odoncaoa]

Greetings,

Understood.  I tracked down the issue(s), however. The difference in
pathnames has always been painful to me. Thus, the first problem turned
out to be that CYGWINHOME had been set to *nix style
(/cygwin/c/local/applics/cygwin), and was expected to be set Windoze
style (c:/local/applics/cygwin). Secondly, and the true nature of the
failure apparently turned out to be an issue with the paths (not)
present or, again, miscoded in EMACSLOADPATH. Emacs wasn't able to find
'comint.el' and/or 'shell.el'. When I tracked them down and added them
to my emacs directory, is when Cygwin's bash began to work (at least).

Thanx much,

odoncaoa