Hi John, please report this bug via M-x report-emacs-bug if that's functional. Just copy/paste in this information again. report-emacs-bug has gotten pretty good about collecting everything we need to know. Best regards, Adrian John> Either I'm being stupid or XEmacs is. I'm using John> "21.4 (patch 6) \"Common Lisp (candidate 1)\" XEmacs Lucid" John> on an `alpha-dec-osf5.0' system. A while ago, I downloaded a sumo John> tarball, so I have old versions of the packages installed. I want to John> update my packages, so I choose a download site from Tools -> Packages -> Add download site. Then I go to Tools -> Packages -> List and John> install. After a second or two, I get this: John> *ftp anonymous(a)ftp.xemacs.org* seems not a pty. Kill? John> First problem: this is meaningless to me, and probably meaningless to John> some other people. Could someone rewrite this error message in John> English? John> Anyway, my three options are "Yes", "No", and "Cancel", and I haven't John> been able to detect any differences in their behaviors. I figure John> there's something wrong with the ftp connection, so I select another John> download site. (First I choose the one I started with, to unmark that John> box, then I choose a new one.) When I try "List and install" again, I John> immediately get this: John> Process not open for writing: #<process "*ftp John> anonymous(a)ftp.sunsite.utk.edu*&quot; pid 480165 state:exit> John> This is my second problem: once there is one failure with a download John> site to get the package listing, I can't switch to another site and John> try again. As far as I can tell, it's not even trying to open the ftp John> connection; it just gives an error right away and quits. John> -- John> J. H. Palmieri John> Dept of Mathematics, Box 354350 mailto:palmieri＠math.washington.edu John> University of Washington http://www.math.washington.edu/~palmieri/ John> Seattle, WA 98195-4350 -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/

John> *ftp anonymous(a)ftp.xemacs.org* seems not a pty. Kill? Stephen> We've seen this before. I don't know what it is. This one is probably not an EFS bug, but rather a core problem with subprocesses. EFS essentially prints it when it's unable to talk with the underlying ftp process. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla

On 04 Dec 2001, nbecker(a)fred.net muttered drunkenly: It can also be caused by a simple timeout :) -- `The situation is completely under control. All of them were killed.' --- Alim Razim, for the Northern Alliance, demonstrating fine command of traditional Afghan prisoner control techniques.