From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Symbol's value as variable is void: \211PNG Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 13:59:24 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87k4ri4l0j.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87d3xa4lot.fsf@merciadriluca-eee.WORKGROUP> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273084000 13592 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2010 18:26:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 18:26:40 +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 May 05 20:26:39 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 1O9jGl-0007iu-US for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 20:26:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45923 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9jGU-00017P-6P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 14:24:10 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qSdnR6F+aP5qgbPItQA/S6jNtnA= Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 05 May 2010 13:59:24 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: b0a26e3f.newsspool2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=^f@7f7L[jK2LNKYb?b>076A9EHlD; 3Yc24Fo<]lROoR18kF5MOK`b\9Oe:\ 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:73471 Archived-At: 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. -- David Kastrup