From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Quesseveur Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: apply start-process fails because of invalid current directory Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:46:45 +0200 Organization: Les Enchantements de Miraldra Message-ID: <86zjt3p3x6.fsf@free.fr> Reply-To: pascal.quesseveur@free.fr NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375257016 11356 80.91.229.3 (31 Jul 2013 07:50:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 07:50:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 31 09:50:17 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V4RAm-00066I-NV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:50:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35356 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4RAm-0001qJ-EQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 03:50:16 -0400 X-Received: by 10.180.80.227 with SMTP id u3mr1917552wix.5.1375256807324; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:46:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!mh2no2930495wib.1!news-out.google.com!cc8ni2690wib.1!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed2-a.proxad.net!nnrp6-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) X-Attribution: PQsr Cancel-Lock: sha1:IG4lL3zyb4Y/X9MFLSWF89OfYeI= Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Jul 2013 09:46:47 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 78.241.156.15 Original-X-Trace: 1375256807 news-3.free.fr 2284 78.241.156.15:62157 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200316 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92583 Archived-At: Hello, >From time to time i encounter problems with commands running start-process for ex. eimp-start-process. Trace follows: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Setting current directory" "no such file or directory" "y:/") start-process("eimp-5468Kgf" nil "mogrify" "-resize" "66%" "c:/Users/pascalq/AppData/Local/Temp/eimp-5468x-x") apply(start-process "eimp-5468Kgf" nil "mogrify" ("-resize" "66%" "c:/Users/pascalq/AppData/Local/Temp/eimp-5468x-x")) ... --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Problem occurs on Windows. Directory y:/ was a removable device which is no more connected. I have read/written to that directory before calling start-process. When I connect the device again start-process runs fine. I have looked through apropos-value for y:/ but I don't see anything valuable. -- Pascal Quesseveur pascal.quesseveur@free.fr