Re: [Bug: 21.5-b28] Problem with dired (C-x d)

Hmm. Downloaded the dired package, version 1.17, again, unpacked it, byte-compiled dired.el, and so far, could not reproduce the problem anymore. The previous package only had .elc files in it.

thomas Mats Lidell schrieb: > Michael Sperber writes: > > >> Very odd: It seems it's trying to insert the directory list into >> the *Buffer List* buffer. >> >> > This sounds like the same problem I have been seeing for years: > > "http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/xemacs-beta/2006-May/009236.html" > > The idea that font locking could be involved let me then to go back to > good old slow font locking and by that I manage to keep the problem > away. But it resurfaced again a few months, maybe even half a year, ago. > So I guess the bug it is lurking inside somewhere. > > > >> Could you trace the `dired-find-buffer-nocreate' function when it >> happens, reproduce the problem, and post the output? I.e. >> >> M-x trace-function-backgroud RET >> dired-find-buffer-nocreate RET >> RET >> >> and then post the contents of *trace-output*? >> >> > I'll try this as well but from my experience when the problem occurs you > are smoked. Trying the operation again does not reveal that much since > the situation is different. And the dired buffer is definitely not right > so you need to look out for other errors caused by that fact. Maybe > deleting the dired buffer and retrying the operation is worth a try if > the other way doesn't work out right. > > Yours > -- > %% Mats > > > >