bug#69575: Me again. Two bugs.

[Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> tags 69575 + moreinfo
> thanks
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Robert Boyer <robertstephenboyer@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 19:17:38 -0600
>>>
>>> Bug 1.  Previously reported, still not solved.
>>>
>>> Consider this 1 gb file of all the primes below 10^10.
>>>
>>>   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BQ_abM9P6ZIA0OEofH5kFjw1mEeHTgPb/view?usp=drive_link
>>>
>>> I can 'find' it, literally.
>>>
>>> However, M-> does not work.
>>>
>>> It freezes Emacs.
>>
>> If that file has very long lines, this is a known problem in Emacs 28
>> and older.  Should be much better in Emacs 29 and later.
>
> Did you have a chance to try this in Emacs 29 or later?
>
>>> When I Type C-c M-i to copy text to your preferred mail program, as you suggest,
>>>
>>> I get sent to another Emacs that says:
>>>
>>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Listing directory failed but ‘access-file’ worked")
>>>   error("Listing directory failed but `access-file' worked")
>>>   insert-directory("/mnt/chromeos/removable/SD/" "--dired -al" nil t)
>>>   dired-insert-directory("/mnt/chromeos/removable/SD/" "-al" nil nil t)
>>>   dired-readin-insert()
>>>   #<subr F616e6f6e796d6f75732d6c616d626461_anonymous_lambda_35>()
>>>   combine-change-calls-1(1 1 #<subr F616e6f6e796d6f75732d6c616d626461_anonymous_lambda_35>)
>>>   dired-readin()
>>>   dired-internal-noselect("/mnt/chromeos/removable/SD/" nil)
>>>   dired-noselect("/mnt/chromeos/removable/SD/" nil)
>>>   dired("/mnt/chromeos/removable/SD/")
>>>   gw()
>>>   load-with-code-conversion("/home/bob/.emacs" "/home/bob/.emacs" t t)
>>>   load("~/.emacs" noerror nomessage)
>>>   startup--load-user-init-file(#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x188949ac3bcb4358>) #f(compiled-function
>>> () #<bytecode -0x1f3c686ddc0cdc35>) t)
>>>   command-line()
>>>   normal-top-level()
>>
>> This is something triggered by your ~/.emacs init file, as evidenced
>> by this line:
>>
>>      load("~/.emacs" noerror nomessage)
>>
>> which says that Emacs is loading your init file.  It sounds like
>> something in your .emacs file tries to start Dired on the directory
>> "/mnt/chromeos/removable/SD/", which has some access problems?  You
>> need to investigate what goes wrong there.  Whether this is some
>> problem in Emacs or in how you configure and customize Emacs can only
>> be established once the problematic part(s) of your init file are
>> identified.
>
> Or look into this?
>
> Thanks.

More information was requested, but none was given within 6 weeks, so
I'm closing this bug.

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