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: Emacs 23 info files problem Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:44:31 +0300 Message-ID: <83r5ul51rk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87hbvif742.fsf@hodge.id.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252133226 31806 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2009 06:47:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 06:47:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 05 08:46:59 2009 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 1Mjp34-00045a-WC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:46:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50215 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mjp33-00078L-TD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:46:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mjp2g-00078F-8v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:46:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mjp2e-000783-Km for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:46:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57474 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mjp2e-000780-FS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:46:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:30049) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mjp2e-0002Qe-0B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:46:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il ([84.95.2.16]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mjp2d-0002YR-9P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:46:31 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout6.012.net.il by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KPH00K00JEV3000@i-mtaout6.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:46:29 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.50.163]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KPH00MB9K5GT0A0@i-mtaout6.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:46:29 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87hbvif742.fsf@hodge.id.au> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-Detected-Operating-System: by mx20.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:67889 Archived-At: > From: David Hodge > Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:38:53 +0800 >=20 > 1. Selecting Info from the toolbar Help menu or C-h r (ie read t= he emacs > manual) i get=20 >=20 > info-file-exists-p: Wrong number of arguments: #[(filename suffix l= fn) "=08=C2=83=08=09 > P=C2=87=C3=86=09!=1B=C3=87=C3=88=09G=0BG=C3=89#]=1C=C3=8A=1D=0C= =C3=87X=C2=83(=09=C2=89GSH=C3=8B=3D=C2=834 > G=C3=87U=C2=844 > =C3=89=C3=8AO=12=0C=C3=87=C3=8C > GZ]^=15=09=C3=87=09G=0C > ZZO > P+=C2=87"=20 >=20 >=20 > 2. Doing it the second time gives me the info directory, with the e= rror 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 yo= u 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 proble= m, > 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 invok= e 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.