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- What happened.
- What you thought should have happened.
- Precisely what you were doing at the time.
Please also include any C or lisp back-traces that you may have.
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Dear Bug Team!
I recently installed the cygwin version of Xemacs on my Windows ME
system. Xemacs seems to work fine, but is unable to start a shell.
When I select Tools->Shell->Shell, I get the error message:
Opening pty or pipe: Bad file number
This happens if I try to run anything that requires a separate
process. For example, it will also give that error message if I try
to run the perl debugger using perldb.
What I think should happen? I think that Xemacs should create a new
shell process and display the prompt in an emacs buffer. Or, if I do
perldb, it should start up the perl process, display the debugger
prompt in an emacs buffer, and sync with my perl source in a separate
buffer.
When I run with debug mode, I get the following backtrace
Signaling: (file-error "Opening pty or pipe" "Bad file number")
start-process-internal("shell" #<buffer "*shell*">
"/usr/bin/bash" "-i")
apply(start-process-internal "shell" #<buffer "*shell*">
"/usr/bin/bash" "-i")
start-process("shell" #<buffer "*shell*">
"/usr/bin/bash" "-i")
apply(start-process "shell" #<buffer "*shell*">
"/usr/bin/bash" "-i")
comint-exec-1("shell" #<buffer "*shell*">
"/usr/bin/bash" ("-i"))
comint-exec(#<buffer "*shell*"> "shell"
"/usr/bin/bash" nil ("-i"))
make-comint("shell" "/usr/bin/bash" nil "-i")
apply(make-comint "shell" "/usr/bin/bash" nil "-i")
#<compiled-function nil "...(101)" [startfile name prog
shell-multiple-shells xargs-name buffer "*shell*" "shell"
comint-check-proc getenv "ESHELL" "SHELL" "/bin/sh"
file-name-nondirectory "~/.emacs_" intern-soft "explicit-"
"-args" apply make-comint file-exists-p boundp ("-i") shell-mode
pop-to-buffer rename-buffer generate-new-buffer-name buffer-name explicit-shell-file-name
shell-file-name] 7
("/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/xemacs-base/shell.elc" . 14747)
nil>()
call-interactively(shell)
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System Info to help track down your bug:
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uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 TSUNAMI 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) 2001-05-20 23:28 i686 unknown
./configure '--with-dragndrop' '--with-postgresql=no'
'--with-x=no' '--bindir=/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-cygwin'
'--with-site-lisp=yes' '--with-ipv6-cname=no' '--with-netinstall'
XEmacs 21.4.5 "Civil Service" configured for `i686-pc-cygwin'.
Compilation / Installation:
Source code location: /development/xemacs/xemacs-21.4
Installation prefix: /usr/local
Operating system description file: `s/cygwin32.h'
Machine description file: `m/intel386.h'
Compiler: gcc -I/usr/lib/../include/noX
-I/usr/lib/../include/noX -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wsign-compare -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith
Relocating allocator for buffers: no
GNU version of malloc: yes
Window System:
Compiling in support for the Microsoft window system.
Using MS-Windows menubars.
Using MS-Windows scrollbars.
Using MS-Windows dialog boxes.
Using MS-Windows native widgets.
Compiling in support for Drag'n'Drop (EXPERIMENTAL).
- Drag'n'Drop prototype: msw.
TTY:
Compiling in support for ncurses.
Images:
Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin).
Compiling in support for XPM images.
Compiling in support for PNG images.
Compiling in support for JPEG images.
Compiling in support for TIFF images.
Sound:
Compiling in support for sound (native).
Databases:
Compiling in support for GNU DBM.
Internationalization:
Compiling in support for file coding.
Mail:
Compiling in support for POP mail retrieval.
Other Features:
Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules.
Load-Path Lisp Shadows:
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nil
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Recent keystrokes:
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misc-user misc-user
Recent messages (most recent first):
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