error with start-process-internal: "Opening pty or pipe: No such device or address"
In XEmacs 21.2 (beta28) "Hermes" [Lucid] (alphaev5-dec-osf4.0f) of Mon Feb 7
2000 on goedel1
configured using `configure --prefix=/scratch/palmieri
--site-includes=/scratch/palmieri/include --site-libraries=/scratch/palmieri/lib'
Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:
I've had this problem recently, and I don't know what to do about it.
I start xemacs with "xemacs -vanilla -q", then set debug-on-error to
t, then typed
C-x C-f /ftp(a)ftp.xemacs.org:
I get this:
Signaling: (file-error "Opening pty or pipe" "No such device or
address")
start-process-internal("*ftp ftp(a)ftp.xemacs.org*" #<buffer "*ftp
ftp(a)ftp.xemacs.org*"> "ftp" "-i" "-n" "-g"
"-v")
apply(start-process-internal "*ftp ftp(a)ftp.xemacs.org*" #<buffer "*ftp
ftp(a)ftp.xemacs.org*"> "ftp" ("-i" "-n"
"-g" "-v"))
start-process("*ftp ftp(a)ftp.xemacs.org*" #<buffer "*ftp
ftp(a)ftp.xemacs.org*"> "ftp" "-i" "-n" "-g"
"-v")
apply(start-process "*ftp ftp(a)ftp.xemacs.org*" #<buffer "*ftp
ftp(a)ftp.xemacs.org*"> "ftp" ("-i" "-n"
"-g" "-v"))
efs-start-process("ftp.xemacs.org" "ftp" "*ftp
ftp(a)ftp.xemacs.org*")
efs-get-process("ftp.xemacs.org" "ftp")
efs-host-type("ftp.xemacs.org" "ftp")
efs-expand-file-name("/ftp＠ftp.xemacs.org:" nil)
apply(efs-expand-file-name ("/ftp＠ftp.xemacs.org:" nil))
efs-file-handler-function(expand-file-name "/ftp＠ftp.xemacs.org:" nil)
expand-file-name("/ftp＠ftp.xemacs.org:")
find-file-noselect("/ftp＠ftp.xemacs.org:")
find-file("/ftp＠ftp.xemacs.org:" nil)
call-interactively(find-file)
Possibly irrelevant history:
Last week I installed XEmacs 21.1.8 and a sumo tarball, then did
Options->Manage Packages->Update Installed Packages
(after adding a download site and updating the package index). This
was working fine, but I needed to stop it, so I hit C-g at some point.
Later that day, I installed XEmacs 21.2.27 and then tried to continue
this procedure with that version; this is when I first got the
"Opening pty or pipe" error message. (So I don't know if it had to do
with installing 21.2.27 or with hitting C-g in the middle of updating
the packages or with something else.) From this point on, I've been
getting the message using 21.1.8 or 21.2.27 or 21.2.28, and I think I
get it whenever start-process runs. I've tried deleting and
reinstalling everything I can think of (like $prefix/lib/xemacs,
$prefix/lib/xemacs-${version}, everything relevant in $prefix/bin),
but nothing has been any help so far. Suggestions?
--
John H. Palmieri
Dept of Mathematics, Box 354350 palmieri(a)math.washington.edu
University of Washington http://www.math.washington.edu/~palmieri
Seattle, WA 98195-4350