From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: apply start-process fails because of invalid current directory Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:38:56 +0200 Message-ID: References: <86zjt3p3x6.fsf@free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375267191 22162 80.91.229.3 (31 Jul 2013 10:39:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:39:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Help List To: pascal.quesseveur@free.fr Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 31 12:39:52 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 1V4Tos-0002HG-PZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:39:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35506 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4Tos-0002OL-CG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 06:39:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54346) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4Toh-0002OF-GO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 06:39:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4Tof-0003eT-K0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 06:39:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ee0-x230.google.com ([2a00:1450:4013:c00::230]:49971) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4Tof-0003cb-A1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 06:39:37 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ee0-f48.google.com with SMTP id l10so261306eei.21 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 03:39:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=npCK4f7ooXfD7Rithsr1OBeOf6mkdflKxoh16g6WnI8=; b=de0ZUblzMUjBwApK5qKz24awAamBiCIybL9cKqUDdLaB0jIER5w/FStTe1j+NoqcLR tKhzeZw3SxrgjwfRrfimsLZ0u6FYY7URufQWmnqVHyLdxUD28MXIRr3IiRWyYBXd/LqZ bQ5AmvgC/jozG90F/uf+69esmv8+VogmCmAM+IcDDUiRDs6nPzXkKLfpAAkyuXcKNe3e PuEE4Y1UNMpKZbRARjZwjqAP5mVc7KbM+99nYKWj+zGGve4TQCVcxgA/tbE58/UrzMwa VOObvset55T6fZROU263slAKev1Ua2aoZFsXaQhWPaOti3TNPriezl+75jeX3d8Fmqqr N0vg== X-Received: by 10.15.76.71 with SMTP id m47mr67525139eey.70.1375267176563; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 03:39:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.15.23.70 with HTTP; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 03:38:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <86zjt3p3x6.fsf@free.fr> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4013:c00::230 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:92584 Archived-At: On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Pascal Quesseveur wrote: > Directory y:/ was a removable device > which is no more connected. Then the behavior doesn't seem surprising, though it is hard to say without a recipe to reproduce it. Which sequence of commands are you running, and what did you expect to happen instead? J