From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dired error: invalid byte code Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 01:14:31 +0200 Message-ID: <87hafv4drc.fsf@web.de> References: <87zjtn2518.fsf@engels.HistoricalMaterialism.info> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373930096 9077 80.91.229.3 (15 Jul 2013 23:14:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 23:14:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 16 01:14:57 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 1Uyryq-0005Xf-UG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 01:14:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49604 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uyryq-000868-FI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:14:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46404) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uyryf-00085n-7B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:14:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uyrye-00021D-7z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:14:45 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56891) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uyrye-000215-1l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:14:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uyryd-0005Ql-3u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 01:14:43 +0200 Original-Received: from ip-90-186-142-203.web.vodafone.de ([90.186.142.203]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 01:14:43 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-186-142-203.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 01:14:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-186-142-203.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dXuEYY3JbVQIO+jFaYw1JWQQbi0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:92145 Archived-At: Haines Brown writes: > For no obvious reason, my dired-create-directory function ceased to work > with this error: > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid byte code in > /usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/dired-aux.elc") > ... > call-interactively(dired-create-directory nil nil) You may get such errors e.g. after upgrading Emacs when still running an instance of the old Emacs. You may also need to recompile some files manually. But most of the time, when I got such an error, restarting Emacs was enough. BTW, what do you mean with "your" dired-create-directory function? Did you redefine it? Regards, Michael.