From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: ispell file-error "Setting current directory" Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 09:44:13 -0700 Message-ID: <318v30F39fheqU1@individual.net> References: <87vfd13sn1.fsf@jidanni.org> <874qk7zubd.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.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 1102005880 15982 80.91.229.6 (2 Dec 2004 16:44:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:44:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 02 17:44:31 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CZu4F-00027u-00 for ; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:44:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CZuDn-0005Nw-HO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 11:54:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CZuDm-0005Nq-9P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 11:54:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CZuDl-0005Ne-RH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 11:54:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CZuDl-0005Nb-Ni for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 11:54:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [130.59.10.2] (helo=chx400.switch.ch) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CZu46-0007Mn-37 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 11:44:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.1.2]) by chx400.switch.ch with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1CZu42-0001bl-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:44:18 +0100 Original-Received: by Mail.FU-Berlin.DE (Exim 4.42) from curry.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.10.36]) for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org with esmtp id <1CZu42-0007L5-Ah>; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:44:18 +0100 Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.uni-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 17:44:18 +0100 (MET) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 57 X-Orig-X-Trace: individual.net pj3c0sG4qljakuNqzjY79wCm5MYhhWHZ7EybDUns0BPjx0wUU= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:9911 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:9911 Dan Jacobson wrote: > rms> Here's how check-ispell-version chooses the directory to use: > > rms> (default-directory (or (and (boundp 'temporary-file-directory) > rms> temporary-file-directory) > rms> default-directory)) > > rms> Please examine those variables and see what directory it chooses and > rms> why. > > It happened again today. Had to start a new emacs as replying to mail > was blocked by it. It must be a complex interaction between > ispell, gnus, ffap, (and ange-ftp? (which I never use)). > In all buffers concerned, the variables you mentioned are $HOME or > /tmp, i.e., OK. That can't be. > All I know is > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Setting current directory" > "no such file or directory" "/home/jidanni/http:/www.geocities.com/jidanni/") > call-process("ispell" nil t nil "-vv") > check-ispell-version() In the *Backtrace* buffer, point should be at the beginning of the call-process() line. Move to the check-ispell-version() line, and please report what these commands display: e (current-buffer) RET e default-directory RET e temporary-file-directory RET > ispell-init-process() > ispell-buffer-local-words() > ispell-accept-buffer-local-defs() > flyspell-accept-buffer-local-defs() > flyspell-mode-on() > flyspell-mode(1) > #[nil "^HM-^D^G^@M-A M-^H^H?M-^E^V^@M-BM-C VM-^E^V^@M-DM-E!M-^G" [buffer-read-only turn-on-auto-fill 88888 buffer-size flyspell-mode 1] 2]() > run-hooks(text-mode-hook) > text-mode() > pop-to-buffer("*wide reply to Johnny Lin*<4>") > message-pop-to-buffer("*wide reply to Johnny Lin*<4>") > message-reply(nil t) > gnus-summary-reply((13503) t) > gnus-summary-reply-with-original(nil t) > gnus-summary-wide-reply-with-original(nil) > call-interactively(gnus-summary-wide-reply-with-original) > > The geocities buffer was created by a typo minutes earlier. I had > immediately killed it after it appeared. > emacs-version"21.3.1" -- Kevin Rodgers