For the following interactive shells: * /bin/sh * /usr/pkg/bin/zsh * /usr/local/plan9/bin/rc when "/usr/local/plan9/bin" is at the head of the PATH environment variable and entry to GNU Emacs is by "emacs -Q", inside GNU Emacs the dired command fails # steps to reproduce behavior * start by 'emacs -Q' * list directory by 'C-x d' # observed behavior # minibuffer echo area says > insert-directory: Listing directory failed but `access-file' worked # expected behavior # window displays listing of Dired, for example ''' /usr/X: total used in directory 96K available 72 GiB 1966113 drwxr-xr-x 2 501 4.0K Jan 30 15:00 Articles 1977600 drwxr-xr-x 3 501 4.0K Jan 31 07:11 Books 1977546 drwxr-xr-x 2 501 4.0K Jan 26 20:00 Configurations 1977542 -rw-r--r-- 1 501 7.7K Jan 30 17:49 emacs-lisp.text ''' -- vl