From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: occasional failure to rename Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:18:18 +0200 Message-ID: <46E2D95A.5040304@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189271864 28953 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2007 17:17:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 17:17:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: knubee@gmail.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 08 19:17:44 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IU3wE-0000Nx-Jk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:17:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IU3wC-00034V-M5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:17:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IU3vv-00032z-J3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:17:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IU3vt-00030e-V0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:17:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IU3vt-00030Y-SZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:17:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IU3vt-0006LM-3B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:17:21 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 08 Sep 2007 17:17:18 -0000 Original-Received: from N810P008.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.45.40]) [62.47.45.40] by mail.gmx.net (mp040) with SMTP; 08 Sep 2007 19:17:18 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19//Bl/FbJ/YLs0+C0zTKLwAxieVfG4WWQEXZmYTJ 0UW8Cj/sV8ptFx User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:47371 Archived-At: >> Can you make it fail reliably when you do Emacs -Q, open a directory, >> and try to rename a file before doing anything else? > > That worked fine. (Part of the difficulty here it happens enough to > be significant, but not often enough that I notice the pattern of what > I did prior to the problem occurring.) Weird. Do you use wdired (aka "Edit File Names")? You could customize `debug-on-error' to t on your system. This would give us a clue what caused the bug. >>> This does not happen all the time, but when it does the only solution >>> I have found is to close out of emacs and restart. >> >> Do you have to restart Emacs because it's unresponsive or because it's >> the only way to make renaming work? > > Because it is the only way to make renaming work. Everything else > continues to work just fine, as far as I can tell. The next time this happens do M-: (require 'dired-aux) and retry (but post the contents of the *Backtrace* buffer here before). You obviously could put (require 'dired-aux) directly in your .emacs, but this would deprive us of any opportunity to further investigate the cause of this bug.