Re: Emacs 23 info files problem

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: David Hodge <dbh@NOSPAMhodge.id.au>
> Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:38:53 +0800
> 
> 1. Selecting Info  from the toolbar Help menu or  C-h r  (ie read the emacs
> manual) i get 
> 
> info-file-exists-p: Wrong number of arguments: #[(filename suffix lfn) "\bƒ\b	
> P‡Æ	!^[ÇÈ	G\vGÉ#]\x1cÊ\x1d\fÇXƒ(	‰GSHË=ƒ4
> GÇU„4
> ÉÊO\x12\fÇÌ
> GZ]^\x15	Ç	G\f
> ZZO
> P+‡" 
> 
> 
> 2. Doing it the second time gives me the info directory, with the error in
> an electric buffer that disappears.

I cannot reproduce this, but I'm not on Ubuntu, so maybe this is
something specific to the Ubuntu setup or your personal setup.  Do you
have the environment variable INFOPATH set, and if so, to what value?
Do you get the same problems when you invoke Emacs with the -Q switch?

> If someone has advice of where i could start looking for the problem,
> I'd be greateful.

If the above questions don't give a clue, then I'd suggest manually
loading info.el ("M-x load-library RET info.el RET") before you invoke
Info, so that the error message above would at least show
human-readable backtrace.  Then you could look at the respective Lisp
code and try to figure out what exactly went wrong and why.