12:34 p.m.
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Dear Bug Team!
My XEmacs has a not-quite-reproducible but regularly occuring (and
very annoying) behavior when saving a file: C-x C-s fails with an
error message "No file on this line" and the file is removed from the
disk. Repeating the command succeeds - the file is created again, but
with default permissions (even if it was executable before). When I
then change the file and try to save, it fails again. One thing I
might be doing before seeing the bug is calling write-file, but I
can't reproduce the problematic behavior just by doing
that. Restarting XEmacs reverts the behavior to normal - until next
time...
Bye
Vasek
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System Info to help track down your bug:
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uname -a: Linux linux 2.4.19-4GB #1 Wed Sep 25 18:58:10 UTC 2002 i686 unknown
./configure '--with-mule'
XEmacs 21.5-b15 "celery" (+CVS-20030905) configured for `i686-pc-linux'.
Compilation / Installation:
Source code location: /usr/local/src/xemacs/xemacs-21.5
Installation prefix: /usr/local
Operating system description file: `s/linux.h'
Machine description file: `m/intel386.h'
Compiler: gcc -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wsign-compare -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wpacked -Wshadow -Wmissing-declarations -g
-O3
Relocating allocator for buffers: no
GNU version of malloc: yes
- Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.
Window System:
Compiling in support for the X window system:
- X Windows headers location: /usr/X11/include
- X Windows libraries location: /usr/X11/lib
- Handling WM_COMMAND properly.
Using Lucid menubars.
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Using Motif dialog boxes.
Using Motif native widgets.
TTY:
Compiling in support for ncurses.
Compiling in support for GPM (General Purpose Mouse).
Images:
Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin).
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Compiling in support for PNG images.
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Compiling in support for TIFF images.
Sound:
Compiling in support for sound (native).
Databases:
Compiling in support for Berkeley database.
Compiling in support for GNU DBM.
Internationalization:
Compiling in support for Mule (multi-lingual Emacs).
Compiling in support for XIM (X11R5+ I18N input method).
- Using Motif to provide XIM support.
Mail:
Compiling in support for "dot-locking" mail spool file locking method.
Other Features:
Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at startup.
Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules.
Using the new portable dumper.
Compiling in support for extra debugging code.
WARNING: ---------------------------------------------------------
WARNING: Compiling in support for runtime error checking.
WARNING: XEmacs will run noticeably more slowly as a result.
WARNING: Error checking is on by default for XEmacs beta releases.
WARNING: ---------------------------------------------------------
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lisp-float-type file-coding linux dialog devices window-system base64)
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left left left BS BS BS BS BS BS up left BS BS BS C-x
C-s C-x C-s button1 button1up C-s d i c button1 button1up
a d j e c t i v e s _ C-s C-w C-s button1 button1up
button2 button2up C-s C-s C-s C-s button1 button1up
button2 button2up C-s C-w C-s C-s C-s button1 button1up
button1 button1up C-x C-s C-x C-s misc-user M-g 1 3
6 RET C-x b RET down down end left SPC i f SPC $ _
C-x C-s C-x C-s M-x r e p o r t - x e TAB RET
Recent messages (most recent first):
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Loading xemacsbug...done
Loading xemacsbug...
No file on this line
Wrote /home/vb/german/db/fill-adjectives.pl
No file on this line
No file on this line
Wrote /home/vb/german/db/fill-adjectives.pl
No file on this line
No file on this line
Wrote /home/vb/german/db/fill-adjectives.pl
No file on this line
No file on this line
Wrote /home/vb/german/db/fill-adjectives.pl
No file on this line
End of `/ ... /' string/RE not found: (syntax-error Unbalanced parentheses)
End of `s* ... *' string/RE not found: (syntax-error Unbalanced parentheses)
C-M-x not defined.
Quit
Making completion list...
Wrote /home/vb/german/fill-adjectives.pl
10:06 a.m.
>>>> "Vaclav" == Vaclav Barta
<vbar(a)comp.cz> writes:
Vaclav> C-x C-s fails with an error message "No file on this line"
Vaclav> and the file is removed from the disk.
Huh? "No file on this line"? What does "save-buffer" know about
lines? Are you doing this in a Dired buffer?
Please check that C-x C-s is actually running "save-buffer" with C-h k
C-x C-s the next time this happens, in the buffer where the command
fails. Are you running latin-unity? (That shouldn't have anything to
do with this message either, but let's start by blaming me. ;-) Do you
have any Dired buffers? (that seems the most likely source of a
message about "file on the line")
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7:03 p.m.
On Sunday 05 October 2003 11:06 am, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>>>>> "Vaclav" == Vaclav Barta
<vbar(a)comp.cz> writes:
Vaclav> C-x C-s fails with an error message "No file on this line"
Vaclav> and the file is removed from the disk.
Huh? "No file on this line"? What does "save-buffer" know about
lines? Are you doing this in a Dired buffer?
No, I saw it when saving a Perl
script[1]. It is true that I also had some
dired buffers opened, and moreover dired-advertised-find-file fails for me
with the same error message. That *is* reproducible, so perhaps I should
start checking there...
I tried to debug dired-find-file, and got as far as dired-move-to-filename,
which raises the error because it doesn't find some extent - but why it
thinks it should be there I really don't know...
Please check that C-x C-s is actually running "save-buffer"
with C-h k
C-x C-s the next time this happens, in the buffer where the command
I did check
that before posting the bug report - I'll check again next time.
fails. Are you running latin-unity? (That shouldn't have
anything to
Well, I do have Mule, latin-unity package is installed and everything
after
the --with-mule argument to ./configure should have its default settings.
So I guess I have it, whatever it is...
Bye
Vasek
ad 1] Actually I've just seen it when closing XEmacs after creating
a bookmark. Strange failure mode: save-buffers-kill-emacs tried to save
.emacs.bmk, and since that failed, XEmacs refused to end, *even when I
answered No to the Save? question*. I had to use xkill... That XEmacs
instance again had a dired buffer.
8:42 a.m.
>>>> "Vaclav" == Vaclav Barta
<vbar(a)comp.cz> writes:
Vaclav> ad 1] Actually I've just seen it when closing XEmacs after
Vaclav> creating a bookmark. Strange failure mode:
Vaclav> save-buffers-kill-emacs tried to save .emacs.bmk, and
Vaclav> since that failed, XEmacs refused to end, *even when I
Vaclav> answered No to the Save? question*. I had to use
Vaclav> xkill... That XEmacs instance again had a dired buffer.
Urk. This is starting to sound more like latin-unity breakage (since
it hooks in way down in the file internals).
Try M-x latin-unity-uninstall RET. This will cost you some protection
against saving in the wrong coding-system, but most people have few
problems with that, while you're having consistent problems with
saving. I won't cry if that doesn't fix anything, less work for me,
but for you.... ;-)
--
Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp
University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN
Ask not how you can "do" free software business;
ask what your business can "do for" free software.
6:25 p.m.
On Tuesday 07 October 2003 09:42 am, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Urk. This is starting to sound more like latin-unity breakage
(since
it hooks in way down in the file internals).
Try M-x latin-unity-uninstall RET. This will cost you some protection
OK, I did.
The reproducible dired problem persists; if I see the
irreproducible one again I'll let you know.
against saving in the wrong coding-system, but most people have few
problems with that, while you're having consistent problems with
I'm
regularly getting burned by XEmacs choosing the wrong coding
system. Perhaps I have excentric preferences - for example I don't
really care if accented characters in a web page source show right in
XEmacs, I just want them to *stay the same*, to agree with the coding
declaration - but I'm certainly glad to hear it's possible to disable the
feature...:-)
Bye
Vasek
1:11 p.m.
On Tuesday 07 October 2003 07:25 pm, I wrote:
On Tuesday 07 October 2003 09:42 am, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Try M-x latin-unity-uninstall RET. This will cost you some protection
OK, I did. The reproducible dired problem persists; if I see the
irreproducible one again I'll let you know.
Here we go... :-( C-x C-s failed
again after removing the file from the disk,
with the message No file on this line. The problematic file is again a Perl
script (I can send it if somebody's interested, but I don't think there's
anything unusual in these files). latin-unity is disabled (incidentally, how
do I make sure it's disabled?). I don't have any dired buffers opened right
now, but I'm pretty sure I did have some in the same XEmacs session.
So, where do I go from here? Is there a way I can see how XEmacs got
to signalling the error (what Java calls exception stack)?
Bye
Vasek
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