From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Merciadri Luca Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Symbol's value as variable is void: \211PNG Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 23:09:31 +0200 Organization: ULg Message-ID: <87eihqt5ro.fsf@merciadriluca-station.MERCIADRILUCA> References: <87d3xa4lot.fsf@merciadriluca-eee.WORKGROUP> <87k4ri4l0j.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273109490 4914 80.91.229.12 (6 May 2010 01:31:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 01:31:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 06 03:31:28 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9pvz-0007dl-W2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 03:31:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47825 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9p7H-0002BS-5h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 20:39:03 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.buerger.net!nuzba.szn.dk!news.szn.dk!pnx.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TWTu+BFtXrIbUnnaGH0SYEMEGpE= Original-Lines: 55 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.197.101.67 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=U?Fc4]\8h4A:1gGY 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:73491 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Kastrup writes: > Merciadri Luca writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I just turned my computer on today, and realized that my emacs no >> longer worked. >> >> When I start it, just as habitually, I encounter the *Messages* >> buffer, with some unuseful stuff, and then >> >> == >> An error has occured while loading `/home/merciadriluca/.emacs': >> >> Symbol's value as variable is void: \211PNG >> == >> >> The result of debug-init is >> >> == >> Debugger entered--Listp error: (void-variable \211PNG) >> eval-buffer(#> nil >> "/home/merciadriluca/auctex-11.86/auctex.el" nil t) ; Reading >> at buffer position 5 >> load-with-code-conversion("/home/merciadriluca/auctex-11.86/auctex.el" >> "/home/merciadriluca/auctex-11.86/auctex.el" nil t) >> load("~/auctex-11.86/auctex.el" nil t t) > > [...] > > I consider it most likely that your file > "/home/merciadriluca/auctex-11.86/auctex.el" has been overwritten with a > graphics file, due to user error or file system corruption. This is the case. Its content was like a binary content. Really weird. I replaced it, and everything now works. Thanks, David! - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 iEYEARECAAYFAkvh3ooACgkQM0LLzLt8MhwyfgCfai0plZ8MYzCUeX1htB0J6pzt SC8AoKTSdX3j2wvWU4Q9ZEcPYhQ4wFxG =PJdG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----