This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. Please describe as succinctly as possible: - 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. ================================================================ Dear Bug Team! When I open eshell, everything works fine. I can type "bzip2 --help" and I get the help as desired. When I open a dired buffer after that - but the sequence is not important; it could be the other way round - I cannot type "bzip2 --help" anymore - in fact I can, but there is no output. It seems that NO program is being run any more although M-x shell-command and dired are working. ls works in eshell, of course - but that's because it's coded in elisp. Oh, eshell begins - or rather: executing shell commands in eshell - to work again after I've killed ALL dired-buffers. Has anyone got a clue for me what might be going on here? Btw, I'm using bash as my shell, but it has nothing dto do with that, since I've tested it with cmd.exe, too. Bye. Adam. ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- OS version: Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] OS: Windows_NT XEmacs 21.5-b1 \"anise\" configured for `i586-pc-win32'. Building XEmacs in \"D:\\Source\\Gnu\\xemacs-21.5.2\\nt\". Using compiler \"cl -nologo -W3 -Oxsb2 -Oy- -G5rFs -Zi -Zp8 -ML\". Installing XEmacs in \"d:\\Local\\XEmacs\\XEmacs-21.2\". Package path is \"~\\.xemacs;;d:\\Local\\XEmacs\\site-packages;d:\\Local\\XEmacs\\xemacs-packages\". Compiling in support for Microsoft Windows native GUI. Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for GIF images. Compiling in support for PNG images. Compiling in support for TIFF images. Compiling in support for JPEG images. Compiling in support for X-Face message headers. Compiling in support for toolbars. Compiling in support for dialogs. Compiling in support for widgets. Compiling in support for native sounds. Compiling in fast dired implementation. Using minimal tagbits. Using indexed lrecord implementation. Using union type for Lisp object storage. Using portable dumper. Using system malloc. Installed XEmacs Packages: ------------------------- ((x-symbol :version 1.11 :type regular) (toolbar-fancy :version 0.06 :type regular) (pcomplete :version 1.1 :type regular) (eshell :version 2.1 :type regular) (dired :version 1.11 :type regular) (zenirc :version 1.11 :type regular) (xslt-process :version 1.04 :type regular) (xemacs-devel :version 1.37 :type single-file) (xemacs-base :version 1.55 :type regular) (w3 :version 1.2 :type regular) (vm :version 6.95 :type regular) (viper :version 1.26 :type regular) (view-process :version 1.11 :type regular) (vhdl :version 1.13 :type regular) (vc-cc :version 1.16 :type regular) (vc :version 1.28 :type regular) (tpu :version 1.12 :type regular) (tooltalk :version 1.13 :type regular) (tm :version 1.29 :type regular) (time :version 1.11 :type regular) (textools :version 1.12 :type regular) (text-modes :version 1.32 :type single-file) (texinfo :version 1.2 :type regular) (supercite :version 1.17 :type regular) (strokes :version 1.08 :type 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:version 1.16 :type regular) (calc :version 1.17 :type regular) (c-support :version 1.16 :type single-file) (build :version 1.02 :type regular) (bbdb :version 1.16 :type regular) (apel :version 1.2 :type regular) (ada :version 1.1 :type regular) (Sun :version 1.13 :type regular)) Features: -------- (mail-abbrevs xemacsbug dired-faces w32-shellex dired dired-xemacs em-unix term ehelp electric em-term em-script em-prompt em-ls em-pred em-hist em-glob em-dirs em-cmpl esh-opt em-basic em-banner em-alias ring esh-var esh-io esh-ext esh-proc esh-arg esh-cmd esh-module esh-mode pp esh-util eshell setnu whitespace-mode browse-url package-get package-admin config whitespace vm-virtual vm-delete vm-undo vm-minibuf vm-pop highlight-headers bbdb-gui smiley annotations messagexmas nnheader nnheaderxm mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils vm-page vm-mime vm-summary tapestry vm-motion vm-message vm-menu vm-folder efs-cu vm-misc vm-mouse vm-window supercite mail-extr regi bbdb-vm bbdb-snarf bbdb-com random-sig smtpmail rfc2104 starttls sendmail vm-autoload vm-vars vm-version vm vm-startup lazy-lock eldoc time icomplete jka-compr pending-del live-mode assoc timer time-stamp tex-toolbar out-xtra outline tex-site tex-mik bbdb timezone boxquote rect generic-extras generic-mode session defaultcontent env pc-keys paren blink-paren func-menu font-lock cus-face crypt crypt++ rsz-minibuf completer gnuserv x-symbol-autoloads toolbar-fancy-autoloads pcmpl-auto eshell-auto dired-autoloads zenirc-autoloads xslt-process-autoloads xemacs-devel-autoloads xemacs-base-autoloads w3-autoloads vm-autoloads viper-autoloads view-process-autoloads vhdl-autoloads vc-cc-autoloads vc-autoloads tpu-autoloads tooltalk-autoloads tm-autoloads time-autoloads textools-autoloads text-modes-autoloads texinfo-autoloads supercite-autoloads strokes-autoloads sounds-wav-autoloads sounds-au-autoloads slider-autoloads sh-script-autoloads sgml-autoloads scheme-autoloads rmail-autoloads reftex-autoloads psgml-autoloads ps-print-nomule-autoloads prog-modes-autoloads pcl-cvs-autoloads pc-autoloads os-utils-autoloads net-utils-autoloads mule-base-autoloads misc-games-autoloads mine-autoloads mh-e-autoloads mew-autoloads mailcrypt-autoloads mail-lib-autoloads locale-autoloads leim-autoloads ispell-autoloads ilisp-autoloads igrep-autoloads idlwave-autoloads hm--html-menus-autoloads gnus-autoloads gnats-autoloads games-autoloads fsf-compat-autoloads frame-icon-autoloads forms-autoloads footnote-autoloads eudc-autoloads eterm-autoloads emerge-autoloads elib-autoloads eieio-autoloads egg-its-autoloads efs-autoloads edt-autoloads edit-utils-autoloads ediff-autoloads edict-autoloads edebug-autoloads debug-autoloads crisp-autoloads cookie-autoloads cc-mode-autoloads calendar-autoloads calc-autoloads c-support-autoloads build-autoloads bbdb-autoloads apel-autoloads ada-autoloads Sun-autoloads -autoloads loadhist auto-show fontl-hooks code-cmds gutter-items menubar-items x-menubar dragdrop mode-motion mouse itimer auto-save lisp-mode easymenu iso8859-1 page buff-menu lib-complete help-nomule cus-file derived frame text-props obsolete cus-start custom widget cl-extra mini-cl cl cl-19 packages backquote very-early-lisp file-coding mswindows-scrollbars mswindows toolbar native-sound scrollbar network-streams subprocesses menu-accelerator-support menubar md5 xemacs gutter tiff png gif jpeg xface xpm xbm lisp-float-type windows-nt dragdrop-api dialog devices window-system base64) Recent keystrokes: ----------------- - - h e l p RET M-x p u i TAB s e BS BS BS BS BS BS s e n TAB b u BS BS BS BS BS BS BS x e , m BS BS m TAB s e BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS e m TAB a TAB s e TAB BS BS TAB BS BS BS BS BS BS x e m TAB TAB BS BS BS BS BS BS BS b u g TAB BS TAB BS BS - - b u g TAB TAB r e TAB RET Recent messages (most recent first): ----------------------------------- Loading mail-abbrevs... C-x C-left not defined. Loading xemacsbug...done Loading xemacsbug... Making completion list... Making completion list... Making completion list... Making completion list... Reading directory c:/Program Files/txt - win/Emacs/XEmacs-21.5b1/i586-pc-win32/...done Reading directory c:/Program Files/txt - win/Emacs/XEmacs-21.5b1/i586-pc-win32/... Loading dired-xemacs...done Loading dired-xemacs... Loading em-unix...done Loading em-unix... Loading em-term...done Loading em-term... Loading em-script...done Loading em-script... Loading em-prompt...done Loading em-prompt... -- Adam Duck (duck(a)cs.uni-frankfurt.de) Bockenheimer Landstr. 135 / Zi. 211 60325 Frankfurt/Main ______________________________________ I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.