From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Stewart Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: startup error Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:22:06 +0800 Message-ID: <87fxdv45vl.fsf@ubuntu.domain> References: <23936742.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245492564 1432 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2009 10:09:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:09:24 +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 Jun 20 12:09:22 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 1MHxVi-0003XS-5E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:09:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54164 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MHxVh-0003DM-HG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:09:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MHxV6-0003AS-9N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:08:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MHxV0-000312-St for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:08:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44712 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MHxV0-00030p-Nh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:08:38 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:40338 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MHxUz-0004Yx-UA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:08:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MHxUx-0001zT-15 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:08:35 +0000 Original-Received: from 116.4.224.17 ([116.4.224.17]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:08:35 +0000 Original-Received: from lazycat.manatee by 116.4.224.17 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:08:35 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 116.4.224.17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pnHyl2c37h284WkIt9NnROHvnNM= 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:65399 Archived-At: 蚂蚁 writes: > Drew Adams wrote: >>> After installing auto-install, I was getting the following error while start >>> my emacs with `--debug-init' option >>> >>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable >> eval-buffer(#> nil "/home/ting/elisp/auto-install.el" >>> nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 10 >>> load-with-code-conversion("/home/ting/elisp/auto-install.el" >>> "/home/ting/elisp/auto-install.el" nil t) >>> require(auto-install) >>> eval-buffer(# nil "/home/ting/.emacs" nil t) ; Reading at >>> buffer position 1377 >>> load-with-code-conversion("/home/ting/.emacs" "/home/ting/.emacs" t t) >>> load("~/.emacs" t t) >>> >>> How could I fix it? >> >> It looks like you are trying to evaluate a buffer that contains not Emacs Lisp >> but HTML or XML: (void-variable > Web page, not the source file that the Web page linked to (somehow). Check the >> content of your file auto-install.el - my guess is it is HTML. >> >> >> > just test my client Please download auto-install.el from http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/auto-install.el And replace file /home/ting/elisp/auto-install.el Then delete file /home/ting/elisp/auto-install.elc (if you have this file). Then restart Emacs, i think everything will be okay. -- Andy