Olivier> There is a window between the start-process-internal and Olivier> the set-process-sentinel where, depending on scheduling Olivier> and signals whims, the process can finish. Then the Olivier> sentinel is never called, and everything craps up. Olivier> It seems to be rare enough in normal use (even if afaik Olivier> the linux scheduler would make it more probable than Olivier> expected though) but it makes tracing completely Olivier> impossible. Olivier> I have no clue on how to fix it. My lisp skills are inexistant. Olivier> OG, trying to fix the package install on 21.5[1] Olivier> [1] The results of the gunzip -c |tar xvf - appear in the Olivier> *Package Output* buffer after the start-process-internal Olivier> but dissapear somewhere before the end of the function. I can confirm these problems in latest CVS: (emacs-version) "XEmacs 21.5 (beta6) \"bok choi\" [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32) of Thu Jun 27 2002 on D5DC120J" More later ... -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/