From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#909: not finding etc/charsets/ should give some error/warning Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:09:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200809071119.m87BJSoB026156@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200809110637.m8B6bNm1023329@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Glenn Morris , 909@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221151167 3362 80.91.229.12 (11 Sep 2008 16:39:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:39:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dan Nicolaescu , 909@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 11 18:40:22 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KdpDO-0000zY-6H for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:40:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35720 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KdpCN-0004l4-Pn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:39:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kdp17-0005fY-QZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:27:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kdp16-0005eH-3i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:27:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34796 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kdp15-0005e1-Mt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:27:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:35534) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kdp15-0003ho-CR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:27:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m8BGRXR5015765; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:27:33 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m8BGK3u1012729; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:20:03 -0700 X-Loop: don@donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Glenn Morris Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:20:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: don@donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 909 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 909-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B909.122114950010521 (code B ref 909); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:20:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 909) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 11 Sep 2008 16:11:40 +0000 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [140.186.70.10]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m8BGBYtI010515 for <909@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:11:35 -0700 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Kdojo-0001wL-RF; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:09:44 -0400 X-Spook: Geraldton War on Terrorism Elvis threat Venezuela X-Ran: q`u#'Z!Q" (Andreas Schwab's message of "Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:37:05 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:27:37 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:20481 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab wrote: > It's an external condition that Emacs has no control over (it could be a > temporary NFS problem, for example). Just aborting does not give any > clue what is wrong. I meant: after a helpful, descriptive error message is printed, should Emacs continue to run, or is this problem so severe that it should refuse to start?