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This file describes various problems that have been encountered
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in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs. Try doing Ctl-C Ctl-t
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and browsing through the outline headers.
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* Emacs startup failures
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** Emacs fails to start, complaining about missing fonts.
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A typical error message might be something like
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No fonts match `-*-fixed-medium-r-*--6-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'
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This happens because some X resource specifies a bad font family for
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Emacs to use. The possible places where this specification might be
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are:
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- in your ~/.Xdefaults file
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- client-side X resource file, such as ~/Emacs or
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/usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults/Emacs or
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/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs
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One of these files might have bad or malformed specification of a
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fontset that Emacs should use. To fix the problem, you need to find
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the problematic line(s) and correct them.
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** Emacs aborts while starting up, only when run without X.
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This problem often results from compiling Emacs with GCC when GCC was
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installed incorrectly. The usual error in installing GCC is to
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specify --includedir=/usr/include. Installation of GCC makes
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corrected copies of the system header files. GCC is supposed to use
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the corrected copies in preference to the original system headers.
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Specifying --includedir=/usr/include causes the original system header
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files to be used. On some systems, the definition of ioctl in the
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original system header files is invalid for ANSI C and causes Emacs
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not to work.
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The fix is to reinstall GCC, and this time do not specify --includedir
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when you configure it. Then recompile Emacs. Specifying --includedir
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is appropriate only in very special cases and it should *never* be the
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same directory where system header files are kept.
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** Emacs does not start, complaining that it cannot open termcap database file.
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If your system uses Terminfo rather than termcap (most modern
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systems do), this could happen if the proper version of
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ncurses is not visible to the Emacs configure script (i.e. it
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cannot be found along the usual path the linker looks for
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libraries). It can happen because your version of ncurses is
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obsolete, or is available only in form of binaries.
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The solution is to install an up-to-date version of ncurses in
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the developer's form (header files, static libraries and
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symbolic links); in some GNU/Linux distributions (e.g. Debian)
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it constitutes a separate package.
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** Emacs 20 and later fails to load Lisp files at startup.
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The typical error message might be like this:
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"Cannot open load file: fontset"
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This could happen if you compress the file lisp/subdirs.el. That file
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tells Emacs what are the directories where it should look for Lisp
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files. Emacs cannot work with subdirs.el compressed, since the
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Auto-compress mode it needs for this will not be loaded until later,
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when your .emacs file is processed. (The package `fontset.el' is
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required to set up fonts used to display text on window systems, and
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it's loaded very early in the startup procedure.)
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Similarly, any other .el file for which there's no corresponding .elc
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file could fail to load if it is compressed.
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The solution is to uncompress all .el files which don't have a .elc
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file.
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Another possible reason for such failures is stale *.elc files
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lurking somewhere on your load-path. The following command will
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print any duplicate Lisp files that are present in load-path:
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emacs -q -batch -f list-load-path-shadows
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If this command prints any file names, some of these files are stale,
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and should be deleted or their directories removed from your
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load-path.
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** Emacs prints an error at startup after upgrading from an earlier version.
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An example of such an error is:
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x-complement-fontset-spec: "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil"
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This can be another symptom of stale *.elc files in your load-path.
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The following command will print any duplicate Lisp files that are
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present in load-path:
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emacs -q -batch -f list-load-path-shadows
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If this command prints any file names, some of these files are stale,
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and should be deleted or their directories removed from your
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load-path.
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** With X11R6.4, public-patch-3, Emacs crashes at startup.
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Reportedly this patch in X fixes the problem.
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--- xc/lib/X11/imInt.c~ Wed Jun 30 13:31:56 1999
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+++ xc/lib/X11/imInt.c Thu Jul 1 15:10:27 1999
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
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-/* $TOG: imInt.c /main/5 1998/05/30 21:11:16 kaleb $ */
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+/* $TOG: imInt.c /main/5 1998/05/30 21:11:16 kaleb $ */
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/******************************************************************
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Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 by FUJITSU LIMITED
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@@ -166,8 +166,8 @@
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_XimMakeImName(lcd)
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XLCd lcd;
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{
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- char* begin;
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- char* end;
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+ char* begin = NULL;
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+ char* end = NULL;
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char* ret;
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int i = 0;
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char* ximmodifier = XIMMODIFIER;
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@@ -182,7 +182,11 @@
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}
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ret = Xmalloc(end - begin + 2);
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if (ret != NULL) {
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- (void)strncpy(ret, begin, end - begin + 1);
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+ if (begin != NULL) {
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+ (void)strncpy(ret, begin, end - begin + 1);
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+ } else {
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+ ret[0] = '\0';
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+ }
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ret[end - begin + 1] = '\0';
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}
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return ret;
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* Crash bugs
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** Emacs crashes in x-popup-dialog.
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This can happen if the dialog widget cannot find the font it wants to
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use. You can work around the problem by specifying another font with
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an X resource--for example, `Emacs.dialog*.font: 9x15' (or any font that
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happens to exist on your X server).
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** Emacs crashes when you use Bibtex mode.
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This happens if your system puts a small limit on stack size. You can
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prevent the problem by using a suitable shell command (often `ulimit')
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to raise the stack size limit before you run Emacs.
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Patches to raise the stack size limit automatically in `main'
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(src/emacs.c) on various systems would be greatly appreciated.
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** Error message `Symbol's value as variable is void: x', followed by
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a segmentation fault and core dump.
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This has been tracked to a bug in tar! People report that tar erroneously
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added a line like this at the beginning of files of Lisp code:
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x FILENAME, N bytes, B tape blocks
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If your tar has this problem, install GNU tar--if you can manage to
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untar it :-).
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** Crashes when displaying GIF images in Emacs built with version
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libungif-4.1.0 are resolved by using version libungif-4.1.0b1.
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Configure checks for the correct version, but this problem could occur
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if a binary built against a shared libungif is run on a system with an
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older version.
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** Emacs aborts inside the function `tparam1'.
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This can happen if Emacs was built without terminfo support, but the
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terminal's capabilities use format that is only supported by terminfo.
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If your system has ncurses installed, this might happen if your
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version of ncurses is broken; upgrading to a newer version of ncurses
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and reconfiguring and rebuilding Emacs should solve this.
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All modern systems support terminfo, so even if ncurses is not the
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problem, you should look for a way to configure Emacs so that it uses
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terminfo when built.
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** Emacs crashes when using the Exceed 6.0 X server.
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If you are using Exceed 6.1, upgrade to a later version. This was
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reported to prevent the crashes.
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** Emacs crashes with SIGSEGV in XtInitializeWidgetClass.
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It crashes on X, but runs fine when called with option "-nw".
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This has been observed when Emacs is linked with GNU ld but without passing
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the -z nocombreloc flag. Emacs normally knows to pass the -z nocombreloc
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flag when needed, so if you come across a situation where the flag is
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necessary but missing, please report it via M-x report-emacs-bug.
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On platforms such as Solaris, you can also work around this problem by
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configuring your compiler to use the native linker instead of GNU ld.
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* General runtime problems
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** Lisp problems
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*** Changes made to .el files do not take effect.
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You may have forgotten to recompile them into .elc files.
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Then the old .elc files will be loaded, and your changes
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will not be seen. To fix this, do M-x byte-recompile-directory
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and specify the directory that contains the Lisp files.
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Emacs should print a warning when loading a .elc file which is older
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than the corresponding .el file.
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*** Watch out for .emacs files and EMACSLOADPATH environment vars.
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These control the actions of Emacs.
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~/.emacs is your Emacs init file.
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EMACSLOADPATH overrides which directories the function
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"load" will search.
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If you observe strange problems, check for these and get rid
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of them, then try again.
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*** Using epop3.el package causes Emacs to signal an error.
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The error message might be something like this:
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"Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth"
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This happens because epop3 redefines the function gethash, which is a
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built-in primitive beginning with Emacs 21.1. We don't have a patch
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for epop3 that fixes this, but perhaps a newer version of epop3
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corrects that.
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*** Buffers from `with-output-to-temp-buffer' get set up in Help mode.
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Changes in Emacs 20.4 to the hooks used by that function cause
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problems for some packages, specifically BBDB. See the function's
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documentation for the hooks involved. BBDB 2.00.06 fixes the problem.
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*** The Hyperbole package causes *Help* buffers not to be displayed in
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Help mode due to setting `temp-buffer-show-hook' rather than using
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`add-hook'. Using `(add-hook 'temp-buffer-show-hook
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'help-mode-maybe)' after loading Hyperbole should fix this.
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** Keyboard problems
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*** "Compose Character" key does strange things when used as a Meta key.
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If you define one key to serve as both Meta and Compose Character, you
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will get strange results. In previous Emacs versions, this "worked"
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in that the key acted as Meta--that's because the older Emacs versions
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did not try to support Compose Character. Now Emacs tries to do
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character composition in the standard X way. This means that you
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must pick one meaning or the other for any given key.
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You can use both functions (Meta, and Compose Character) if you assign
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them to two different keys.
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*** C-z just refreshes the screen instead of suspending Emacs.
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You are probably using a shell that doesn't support job control, even
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though the system itself is capable of it. Either use a different shell,
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or set the variable `cannot-suspend' to a non-nil value.
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*** With M-x enable-flow-control, you need to type C-\ twice
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to do incremental search--a single C-\ gets no response.
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This has been traced to communicating with your machine via kermit,
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with C-\ as the kermit escape character. One solution is to use
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another escape character in kermit. One user did
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set escape-character 17
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in his .kermrc file, to make C-q the kermit escape character.
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** Mailers and other helper programs
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*** movemail compiled with POP support can't connect to the POP server.
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Make sure that the `pop' entry in /etc/services, or in the services
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NIS map if your machine uses NIS, has the same port number as the
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entry on the POP server. A common error is for the POP server to be
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listening on port 110, the assigned port for the POP3 protocol, while
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the client is trying to connect on port 109, the assigned port for the
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old POP protocol.
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*** RMAIL gets error getting new mail.
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RMAIL gets new mail from /usr/spool/mail/$USER using a program
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called `movemail'. This program interlocks with /bin/mail using
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the protocol defined by /bin/mail.
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There are two different protocols in general use. One of them uses
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the `flock' system call. The other involves creating a lock file;
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`movemail' must be able to write in /usr/spool/mail in order to do
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this. You control which one is used by defining, or not defining,
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the macro MAIL_USE_FLOCK in config.h or the m- or s- file it includes.
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IF YOU DON'T USE THE FORM OF INTERLOCKING THAT IS NORMAL ON YOUR
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SYSTEM, YOU CAN LOSE MAIL!
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If your system uses the lock file protocol, and fascist restrictions
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prevent ordinary users from writing the lock files in /usr/spool/mail,
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you may need to make `movemail' setgid to a suitable group such as
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`mail'. You can use these commands (as root):
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chgrp mail movemail
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chmod 2755 movemail
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If your system uses the lock file protocol, and fascist restrictions
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prevent ordinary users from writing the lock files in /usr/spool/mail,
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you may need to make `movemail' setgid to a suitable group such as
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`mail'. To do this, use the following commands (as root) after doing the
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make install.
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chgrp mail movemail
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chmod 2755 movemail
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Installation normally copies movemail from the build directory to an
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installation directory which is usually under /usr/local/lib. The
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installed copy of movemail is usually in the directory
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/usr/local/lib/emacs/VERSION/TARGET. You must change the group and
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mode of the installed copy; changing the group and mode of the build
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directory copy is ineffective.
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*** rcs2log gives you the awk error message "too many fields".
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This is due to an arbitrary limit in certain versions of awk.
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The solution is to use gawk (GNU awk).
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** Problems with hostname resolution
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*** Emacs fails to understand most Internet host names, even though
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the names work properly with other programs on the same system.
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*** Emacs won't work with X-windows if the value of DISPLAY is HOSTNAME:0.
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*** GNUs can't make contact with the specified host for nntp.
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This typically happens on Suns and other systems that use shared
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libraries. The cause is that the site has installed a version of the
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shared library which uses a name server--but has not installed a
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similar version of the unshared library which Emacs uses.
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The result is that most programs, using the shared library, work with
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the nameserver, but Emacs does not.
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The fix is to install an unshared library that corresponds to what you
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installed in the shared library, and then relink Emacs.
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On SunOS 4.1, simply define HAVE_RES_INIT.
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If you have already installed the name resolver in the file libresolv.a,
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then you need to compile Emacs to use that library. The easiest way to
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do this is to add to config.h a definition of LIBS_SYSTEM, LIBS_MACHINE
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or LIB_STANDARD which uses -lresolv. Watch out! If you redefine a macro
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that is already in use in your configuration to supply some other libraries,
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be careful not to lose the others.
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Thus, you could start by adding this to config.h:
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#define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv
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Then if this gives you an error for redefining a macro, and you see that
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the s- file defines LIBS_SYSTEM as -lfoo -lbar, you could change config.h
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again to say this:
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#define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv -lfoo -lbar
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*** Emacs does not know your host's fully-qualified domain name.
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You need to configure your machine with a fully qualified domain name,
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either in /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, the NIS, or wherever your system
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calls for specifying this.
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If you cannot fix the configuration, you can set the Lisp variable
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mail-host-address to the value you want.
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** NFS and RFS
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*** Emacs says it has saved a file, but the file does not actually
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appear on disk.
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This can happen on certain systems when you are using NFS, if the
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remote disk is full. It is due to a bug in NFS (or certain NFS
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implementations), and there is apparently nothing Emacs can do to
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detect the problem. Emacs checks the failure codes of all the system
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calls involved in writing a file, including `close'; but in the case
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where the problem occurs, none of those system calls fails.
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*** Editing files through RFS gives spurious "file has changed" warnings.
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It is possible that a change in Emacs 18.37 gets around this problem,
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but in case not, here is a description of how to fix the RFS bug that
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causes it.
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There was a serious pair of bugs in the handling of the fsync() system
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call in the RFS server.
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The first is that the fsync() call is handled as another name for the
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close() system call (!!). It appears that fsync() is not used by very
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many programs; Emacs version 18 does an fsync() before closing files
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to make sure that the bits are on the disk.
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This is fixed by the enclosed patch to the RFS server.
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The second, more serious problem, is that fsync() is treated as a
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non-blocking system call (i.e., it's implemented as a message that
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gets sent to the remote system without waiting for a reply). Fsync is
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a useful tool for building atomic file transactions. Implementing it
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as a non-blocking RPC call (when the local call blocks until the sync
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is done) is a bad idea; unfortunately, changing it will break the RFS
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protocol. No fix was supplied for this problem.
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(as always, your line numbers may vary)
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% rcsdiff -c -r1.2 serversyscall.c
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RCS file: RCS/serversyscall.c,v
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retrieving revision 1.2
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diff -c -r1.2 serversyscall.c
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*** /tmp/,RCSt1003677 Wed Jan 28 15:15:02 1987
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--- serversyscall.c Wed Jan 28 15:14:48 1987
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***************
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*** 163,169 ****
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/*
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* No return sent for close or fsync!
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*/
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! if (syscall == RSYS_close || syscall == RSYS_fsync)
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proc->p_returnval = deallocate_fd(proc, msg->m_args[0]);
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else
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{
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--- 166,172 ----
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/*
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* No return sent for close or fsync!
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*/
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! if (syscall == RSYS_close)
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proc->p_returnval = deallocate_fd(proc, msg->m_args[0]);
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else
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{
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** PSGML
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*** Old versions of the PSGML package use the obsolete variables
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`before-change-function' and `after-change-function', which are no
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longer used by Emacs. Please use PSGML 1.2.3 or later.
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*** PSGML conflicts with sgml-mode.
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PSGML package uses the same names of some variables (like keymap)
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as built-in sgml-mode.el because it was created as a replacement
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of that package. The conflict will be shown if you load
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sgml-mode.el before psgml.el. E.g. this could happen if you edit
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HTML page and then start to work with SGML or XML file. html-mode
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(from sgml-mode.el) is used for HTML file and loading of psgml.el
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(for sgml-mode or xml-mode) will cause an error.
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*** Versions of the PSGML package earlier than 1.0.3 (stable) or 1.1.2
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(alpha) fail to parse DTD files correctly in Emacs 20.3 and later.
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Here is a patch for psgml-parse.el from PSGML 1.0.1 and, probably,
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earlier versions.
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--- psgml-parse.el 1998/08/21 19:18:18 1.1
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+++ psgml-parse.el 1998/08/21 19:20:00
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@@ -2383,7 +2383,7 @@ (defun sgml-push-to-entity (entity &opti
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(setq sgml-buffer-parse-state nil))
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(cond
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((stringp entity) ; a file name
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- (save-excursion (insert-file-contents entity))
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+ (insert-file-contents entity)
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(setq default-directory (file-name-directory entity)))
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((consp (sgml-entity-text entity)) ; external id?
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(let* ((extid (sgml-entity-text entity))
|
||
|
||
** AUCTeX
|
||
|
||
You should not be using a version older than 11.52 if you can avoid
|
||
it.
|
||
|
||
*** Emacs 21 freezes when visiting a TeX file with AUCTeX installed.
|
||
|
||
Emacs 21 needs version 10 or later of AUCTeX; upgrading should solve
|
||
these problems.
|
||
|
||
*** No colors in AUCTeX with Emacs 21.
|
||
|
||
Upgrade to AUC TeX version 10 or later, and make sure it is
|
||
byte-compiled with Emacs 21.
|
||
|
||
** PCL-CVS
|
||
|
||
*** Lines are not updated or new lines are added in the buffer upon commit.
|
||
|
||
When committing files located higher in the hierarchy than the examined
|
||
directory, some versions of the CVS program return an ambiguous message
|
||
from which PCL-CVS cannot extract the full location of the committed
|
||
files. As a result, the corresponding lines in the PCL-CVS buffer are
|
||
not updated with the new revision of these files, and new lines are
|
||
added to the top-level directory.
|
||
|
||
This can happen with CVS versions 1.12.8 and 1.12.9. Upgrade to CVS
|
||
1.12.10 or newer to fix this problem.
|
||
|
||
** Miscellaneous problems
|
||
|
||
*** Self-documentation messages are garbled.
|
||
|
||
This means that the file `etc/DOC-...' doesn't properly correspond
|
||
with the Emacs executable. Redumping Emacs and then installing the
|
||
corresponding pair of files should fix the problem.
|
||
|
||
*** Programs running under terminal emulator do not recognize `emacs'
|
||
terminal type.
|
||
|
||
The cause of this is a shell startup file that sets the TERMCAP
|
||
environment variable. The terminal emulator uses that variable to
|
||
provide the information on the special terminal type that Emacs
|
||
emulates.
|
||
|
||
Rewrite your shell startup file so that it does not change TERMCAP
|
||
in such a case. You could use the following conditional which sets
|
||
it only if it is undefined.
|
||
|
||
if ( ! ${?TERMCAP} ) setenv TERMCAP ~/my-termcap-file
|
||
|
||
Or you could set TERMCAP only when you set TERM--which should not
|
||
happen in a non-login shell.
|
||
|
||
*** In Shell mode, you get a ^M at the end of every line.
|
||
|
||
This happens to people who use tcsh, because it is trying to be too
|
||
smart. It sees that the Shell uses terminal type `unknown' and turns
|
||
on the flag to output ^M at the end of each line. You can fix the
|
||
problem by adding this to your .cshrc file:
|
||
|
||
if ($?EMACS) then
|
||
if ($EMACS == "t") then
|
||
unset edit
|
||
stty -icrnl -onlcr -echo susp ^Z
|
||
endif
|
||
endif
|
||
|
||
*** Emacs startup on GNU/Linux systems (and possibly other systems) is slow.
|
||
|
||
This can happen if the system is misconfigured and Emacs can't get the
|
||
full qualified domain name, FQDN. You should have your FQDN in the
|
||
/etc/hosts file, something like this:
|
||
|
||
127.0.0.1 localhost
|
||
129.187.137.82 nuc04.t30.physik.tu-muenchen.de nuc04
|
||
|
||
The way to set this up may vary on non-GNU systems.
|
||
|
||
*** Attempting to visit remote files via ange-ftp fails.
|
||
|
||
If the error message is "ange-ftp-file-modtime: Specified time is not
|
||
representable", then this could happen when `lukemftp' is used as the
|
||
ftp client. This was reported to happen on Debian GNU/Linux, kernel
|
||
version 2.4.3, with `lukemftp' 1.5-5, but might happen on other
|
||
systems as well. To avoid this problem, switch to using the standard
|
||
ftp client. On a Debian system, type
|
||
|
||
update-alternatives --config ftp
|
||
|
||
and then choose /usr/bin/netkit-ftp.
|
||
|
||
*** JPEG images aren't displayed.
|
||
|
||
This has been reported when Emacs is built with jpeg-6a library.
|
||
Upgrading to jpeg-6b solves the problem. Configure checks for the
|
||
correct version, but this problem could occur if a binary built
|
||
against a shared libjpeg is run on a system with an older version.
|
||
|
||
*** Dired is very slow.
|
||
|
||
This could happen if invocation of the `df' program takes a long
|
||
time. Possible reasons for this include:
|
||
|
||
- ClearCase mounted filesystems (VOBs) that sometimes make `df'
|
||
response time extremely slow (dozens of seconds);
|
||
|
||
- slow automounters on some old versions of Unix;
|
||
|
||
- slow operation of some versions of `df'.
|
||
|
||
To work around the problem, you could either (a) set the variable
|
||
`directory-free-space-program' to nil, and thus prevent Emacs from
|
||
invoking `df'; (b) use `df' from the GNU Fileutils package; or
|
||
(c) use CVS, which is Free Software, instead of ClearCase.
|
||
|
||
*** Versions of the W3 package released before Emacs 21.1 don't run
|
||
under Emacs 21. This fixed in W3 version 4.0pre.47.
|
||
|
||
*** The LDAP support rely on ldapsearch program from OpenLDAP version 2.
|
||
|
||
It can fail to work with ldapsearch program from OpenLDAP version 1.
|
||
Version 1 of OpenLDAP is now deprecated. If you are still using it,
|
||
please upgrade to version 2. As a temporary workaround, remove
|
||
argument "-x" from the variable `ldap-ldapsearch-args'.
|
||
|
||
*** ps-print commands fail to find prologue files ps-prin*.ps.
|
||
|
||
This can happen if you use an old version of X-Symbol package: it
|
||
defines compatibility functions which trick ps-print into thinking it
|
||
runs in XEmacs, and look for the prologue files in a wrong directory.
|
||
|
||
The solution is to upgrade X-Symbol to a later version.
|
||
|
||
*** On systems with shared libraries you might encounter run-time errors
|
||
from the dynamic linker telling you that it is unable to find some
|
||
shared libraries, for instance those for Xaw3d or image support.
|
||
These errors mean Emacs has been linked with a library whose shared
|
||
library is not in the default search path of the dynamic linker.
|
||
|
||
Similar problems could prevent Emacs from building, since the build
|
||
process invokes Emacs several times.
|
||
|
||
On many systems, it is possible to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your
|
||
environment to specify additional directories where shared libraries
|
||
can be found.
|
||
|
||
Other systems allow to set LD_RUN_PATH in a similar way, but before
|
||
Emacs is linked. With LD_RUN_PATH set, the linker will include a
|
||
specified run-time search path in the executable.
|
||
|
||
On some systems, Emacs can crash due to problems with dynamic
|
||
linking. Specifically, on SGI Irix 6.5, crashes were reported with
|
||
backtraces like this:
|
||
|
||
(dbx) where
|
||
0 strcmp(0xf49239d, 0x4031184, 0x40302b4, 0x12, 0xf0000000, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2) ["/xlv22/ficus-jan23/work/irix/lib/libc/libc_n32_M3_ns/strings/strcmp.s":35, 0xfb7e480]
|
||
1 general_find_symbol(0xf49239d, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0xf0000000, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2)
|
||
["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld.c":2140, 0xfb65a98]
|
||
2 resolve_symbol(0xf49239d, 0x4031184, 0x0, 0xfbdd438, 0x0, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2)
|
||
["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld.c":1947, 0xfb657e4]
|
||
3 lazy_text_resolve(0xd18, 0x1a3, 0x40302b4, 0x12, 0xf0000000, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2)
|
||
["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld.c":997, 0xfb64d44]
|
||
4 _rld_text_resolve(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
|
||
["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld_bridge.s":175, 0xfb6032c]
|
||
|
||
(`rld' is the dynamic linker.) We don't know yet why this
|
||
happens, but setting the environment variable LD_BIND_NOW to 1 (which
|
||
forces the dynamic linker to bind all shared objects early on) seems
|
||
to work around the problem.
|
||
|
||
Please refer to the documentation of your dynamic linker for details.
|
||
|
||
*** You request inverse video, and the first Emacs frame is in inverse
|
||
video, but later frames are not in inverse video.
|
||
|
||
This can happen if you have an old version of the custom library in
|
||
your search path for Lisp packages. Use M-x list-load-path-shadows to
|
||
check whether this is true. If it is, delete the old custom library.
|
||
|
||
*** When you run Ispell from Emacs, it reports a "misalignment" error.
|
||
|
||
This can happen if you compiled the Ispell program to use ASCII
|
||
characters only and then try to use it from Emacs with non-ASCII
|
||
characters, like Latin-1. The solution is to recompile Ispell with
|
||
support for 8-bit characters.
|
||
|
||
To see whether your Ispell program supports 8-bit characters, type
|
||
this at your shell's prompt:
|
||
|
||
ispell -vv
|
||
|
||
and look in the output for the string "NO8BIT". If Ispell says
|
||
"!NO8BIT (8BIT)", your speller supports 8-bit characters; otherwise it
|
||
does not.
|
||
|
||
To rebuild Ispell with 8-bit character support, edit the local.h file
|
||
in the Ispell distribution and make sure it does _not_ define NO8BIT.
|
||
Then rebuild the speller.
|
||
|
||
Another possible cause for "misalignment" error messages is that the
|
||
version of Ispell installed on your machine is old. Upgrade.
|
||
|
||
Yet another possibility is that you are trying to spell-check a word
|
||
in a language that doesn't fit the dictionary you choose for use by
|
||
Ispell. (Ispell can only spell-check one language at a time, because
|
||
it uses a single dictionary.) Make sure that the text you are
|
||
spelling and the dictionary used by Ispell conform to each other.
|
||
|
||
If your spell-checking program is Aspell, it has been reported that if
|
||
you have a personal configuration file (normally ~/.aspell.conf), it
|
||
can cause this error. Remove that file, execute `ispell-kill-ispell'
|
||
in Emacs, and then try spell-checking again.
|
||
|
||
* Runtime problems related to font handling
|
||
|
||
** Under X11, some characters appear as hollow boxes.
|
||
|
||
Each X11 font covers just a fraction of the characters that Emacs
|
||
supports. To display the whole range of Emacs characters requires
|
||
many different fonts, collected into a fontset.
|
||
|
||
If some of the fonts called for in your fontset do not exist on your X
|
||
server, then the characters that have no font appear as hollow boxes.
|
||
You can remedy the problem by installing additional fonts.
|
||
|
||
The intlfonts distribution includes a full spectrum of fonts that can
|
||
display all the characters Emacs supports.
|
||
|
||
Another cause of this for specific characters is fonts which have a
|
||
missing glyph and no default character. This is known to occur for
|
||
character number 160 (no-break space) in some fonts, such as Lucida
|
||
but Emacs sets the display table for the unibyte and Latin-1 version
|
||
of this character to display a space.
|
||
|
||
** Under X11, some characters appear improperly aligned in their lines.
|
||
|
||
You may have bad X11 fonts; try installing the intlfonts distribution.
|
||
|
||
** Certain fonts make each line take one pixel more than it "should".
|
||
|
||
This is because these fonts contain characters a little taller
|
||
than the font's nominal height. Emacs needs to make sure that
|
||
lines do not overlap.
|
||
|
||
** Loading fonts is very slow.
|
||
|
||
You might be getting scalable fonts instead of precomputed bitmaps.
|
||
Known scalable font directories are "Type1" and "Speedo". A font
|
||
directory contains scalable fonts if it contains the file
|
||
"fonts.scale".
|
||
|
||
If this is so, re-order your X windows font path to put the scalable
|
||
font directories last. See the documentation of `xset' for details.
|
||
|
||
With some X servers, it may be necessary to take the scalable font
|
||
directories out of your path entirely, at least for Emacs 19.26.
|
||
Changes in the future may make this unnecessary.
|
||
|
||
** Font Lock displays portions of the buffer in incorrect faces.
|
||
|
||
By far the most frequent cause of this is a parenthesis `(' or a brace
|
||
`{' in column zero. Font Lock assumes that such a paren is outside of
|
||
any comment or string. This is of course not true in general, but the
|
||
vast majority of well-formatted program source files don't have such
|
||
parens, and therefore this assumption is used to allow optimizations
|
||
in Font Lock's syntactical analysis. These optimizations avoid some
|
||
pathological cases where jit-lock, the Just-in-Time fontification
|
||
introduced with Emacs 21.1, could significantly slow down scrolling
|
||
through the buffer, especially scrolling backwards, and also jumping
|
||
to the end of a very large buffer.
|
||
|
||
Beginning with version 22.1, a parenthesis or a brace in column zero
|
||
is highlighted in bold-red face if it is inside a string or a comment,
|
||
to indicate that it could interfere with Font Lock (and also with
|
||
indentation) and should be moved or escaped with a backslash.
|
||
|
||
If you don't use large buffers, or have a very fast machine which
|
||
makes the delays insignificant, you can avoid the incorrect
|
||
fontification by setting the variable
|
||
`font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function' to a nil value. (This must
|
||
be done _after_ turning on Font Lock.)
|
||
|
||
Another alternative is to avoid a paren in column zero. For example,
|
||
in a Lisp string you could precede the paren with a backslash.
|
||
|
||
** With certain fonts, when the cursor appears on a character, the
|
||
character doesn't appear--you get a solid box instead.
|
||
|
||
One user on a Linux-based GNU system reported that this problem went
|
||
away with installation of a new X server. The failing server was
|
||
XFree86 3.1.1. XFree86 3.1.2 works.
|
||
|
||
** Characters are displayed as empty boxes or with wrong font under X.
|
||
|
||
This can occur when two different versions of FontConfig are used.
|
||
For example, XFree86 4.3.0 has one version and Gnome usually comes
|
||
with a newer version. Emacs compiled with --with-gtk will then use
|
||
the newer version. In most cases the problem can be temporarily
|
||
fixed by stopping the application that has the error (it can be
|
||
Emacs or any other application), removing ~/.fonts.cache-1,
|
||
and then start the application again.
|
||
If removing ~/.fonts.cache-1 and restarting doesn't help, the
|
||
application with problem must be recompiled with the same version
|
||
of FontConfig as the rest of the system uses. For KDE, it is
|
||
sufficient to recompile Qt.
|
||
|
||
** Emacs pauses for several seconds when changing the default font.
|
||
|
||
This has been reported for fvwm 2.2.5 and the window manager of KDE
|
||
2.1. The reason for the pause is Xt waiting for a ConfigureNotify
|
||
event from the window manager, which the window manager doesn't send.
|
||
Xt stops waiting after a default timeout of usually 5 seconds.
|
||
|
||
A workaround for this is to add something like
|
||
|
||
emacs.waitForWM: false
|
||
|
||
to your X resources. Alternatively, add `(wait-for-wm . nil)' to a
|
||
frame's parameter list, like this:
|
||
|
||
(modify-frame-parameters nil '((wait-for-wm . nil)))
|
||
|
||
(this should go into your `.emacs' file).
|
||
|
||
** Underlines appear at the wrong position.
|
||
|
||
This is caused by fonts having a wrong UNDERLINE_POSITION property.
|
||
Examples are the font 7x13 on XFree prior to version 4.1, or the jmk
|
||
neep font from the Debian xfonts-jmk package. To circumvent this
|
||
problem, set x-use-underline-position-properties to nil in your
|
||
`.emacs'.
|
||
|
||
To see what is the value of UNDERLINE_POSITION defined by the font,
|
||
type `xlsfonts -lll FONT' and look at the font's UNDERLINE_POSITION
|
||
property.
|
||
|
||
** When using Exceed, fonts sometimes appear too tall.
|
||
|
||
When the display is set to an Exceed X-server and fonts are specified
|
||
(either explicitly with the -fn option or implicitly with X resources)
|
||
then the fonts may appear "too tall". The actual character sizes are
|
||
correct but there is too much vertical spacing between rows, which
|
||
gives the appearance of "double spacing".
|
||
|
||
To prevent this, turn off the Exceed's "automatic font substitution"
|
||
feature (in the font part of the configuration window).
|
||
|
||
* Internationalization problems
|
||
|
||
** Characters from the mule-unicode charsets aren't displayed under X.
|
||
|
||
XFree86 4 contains many fonts in iso10646-1 encoding which have
|
||
minimal character repertoires (whereas the encoding part of the font
|
||
name is meant to be a reasonable indication of the repertoire
|
||
according to the XLFD spec). Emacs may choose one of these to display
|
||
characters from the mule-unicode charsets and then typically won't be
|
||
able to find the glyphs to display many characters. (Check with C-u
|
||
C-x = .) To avoid this, you may need to use a fontset which sets the
|
||
font for the mule-unicode sets explicitly. E.g. to use GNU unifont,
|
||
include in the fontset spec:
|
||
|
||
mule-unicode-2500-33ff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1,\
|
||
mule-unicode-e000-ffff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1,\
|
||
mule-unicode-0100-24ff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1
|
||
|
||
** The UTF-8/16/7 coding systems don't encode CJK (Far Eastern) characters.
|
||
|
||
Emacs by default only supports the parts of the Unicode BMP whose code
|
||
points are in the ranges 0000-33ff and e000-ffff. This excludes: most
|
||
of CJK, Yi and Hangul, as well as everything outside the BMP.
|
||
|
||
If you read UTF-8 data with code points outside these ranges, the
|
||
characters appear in the buffer as raw bytes of the original UTF-8
|
||
(composed into a single quasi-character) and they will be written back
|
||
correctly as UTF-8, assuming you don't break the composed sequences.
|
||
If you read such characters from UTF-16 or UTF-7 data, they are
|
||
substituted with the Unicode `replacement character', and you lose
|
||
information.
|
||
|
||
To edit such UTF data, turn on Utf-Translate-Cjk mode, which makes
|
||
many common CJK characters available for encoding and decoding and can
|
||
be extended by updating the tables it uses. This also allows you to
|
||
save as UTF buffers containing characters decoded by the chinese-,
|
||
japanese- and korean- coding systems, e.g. cut and pasted from
|
||
elsewhere.
|
||
|
||
** Mule-UCS loads very slowly.
|
||
|
||
Changes to Emacs internals interact badly with Mule-UCS's `un-define'
|
||
library, which is the usual interface to Mule-UCS. Apply the
|
||
following patch to Mule-UCS 0.84 and rebuild it. That will help,
|
||
though loading will still be slower than in Emacs 20. (Some
|
||
distributions, such as Debian, may already have applied such a patch.)
|
||
|
||
--- lisp/un-define.el 6 Mar 2001 22:41:38 -0000 1.30
|
||
+++ lisp/un-define.el 19 Apr 2002 18:34:26 -0000
|
||
@@ -610,13 +624,21 @@ by calling post-read-conversion and pre-
|
||
|
||
(mapcar
|
||
(lambda (x)
|
||
- (mapcar
|
||
- (lambda (y)
|
||
- (mucs-define-coding-system
|
||
- (nth 0 y) (nth 1 y) (nth 2 y)
|
||
- (nth 3 y) (nth 4 y) (nth 5 y) (nth 6 y))
|
||
- (coding-system-put (car y) 'alias-coding-systems (list (car x))))
|
||
- (cdr x)))
|
||
+ (if (fboundp 'register-char-codings)
|
||
+ ;; Mule 5, where we don't need the eol-type specified and
|
||
+ ;; register-char-codings may be very slow for these coding
|
||
+ ;; system definitions.
|
||
+ (let ((y (cadr x)))
|
||
+ (mucs-define-coding-system
|
||
+ (car x) (nth 1 y) (nth 2 y)
|
||
+ (nth 3 y) (nth 4 y) (nth 5 y)))
|
||
+ (mapcar
|
||
+ (lambda (y)
|
||
+ (mucs-define-coding-system
|
||
+ (nth 0 y) (nth 1 y) (nth 2 y)
|
||
+ (nth 3 y) (nth 4 y) (nth 5 y) (nth 6 y))
|
||
+ (coding-system-put (car y) 'alias-coding-systems (list (car x)))))
|
||
+ (cdr x)))
|
||
`((utf-8
|
||
(utf-8-unix
|
||
?u "UTF-8 coding system"
|
||
|
||
Note that Emacs has native support for Unicode, roughly equivalent to
|
||
Mule-UCS's, so you may not need it.
|
||
|
||
** Accented ISO-8859-1 characters are displayed as | or _.
|
||
|
||
Try other font set sizes (S-mouse-1). If the problem persists with
|
||
other sizes as well, your text is corrupted, probably through software
|
||
that is not 8-bit clean. If the problem goes away with another font
|
||
size, it's probably because some fonts pretend to be ISO-8859-1 fonts
|
||
when they are really ASCII fonts. In particular the schumacher-clean
|
||
fonts have this bug in some versions of X.
|
||
|
||
To see what glyphs are included in a font, use `xfd', like this:
|
||
|
||
xfd -fn -schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
|
||
|
||
If this shows only ASCII glyphs, the font is indeed the source of the
|
||
problem.
|
||
|
||
The solution is to remove the corresponding lines from the appropriate
|
||
`fonts.alias' file, then run `mkfontdir' in that directory, and then run
|
||
`xset fp rehash'.
|
||
|
||
** The `oc-unicode' package doesn't work with Emacs 21.
|
||
|
||
This package tries to define more private charsets than there are free
|
||
slots now. The current built-in Unicode support is actually more
|
||
flexible. (Use option `utf-translate-cjk-mode' if you need CJK
|
||
support.) Files encoded as emacs-mule using oc-unicode aren't
|
||
generally read correctly by Emacs 21.
|
||
|
||
** After a while, Emacs slips into unibyte mode.
|
||
|
||
The VM mail package, which is not part of Emacs, sometimes does
|
||
(standard-display-european t)
|
||
That should be changed to
|
||
(standard-display-european 1 t)
|
||
|
||
* X runtime problems
|
||
|
||
** X keyboard problems
|
||
|
||
*** You "lose characters" after typing Compose Character key.
|
||
|
||
This is because the Compose Character key is defined as the keysym
|
||
Multi_key, and Emacs (seeing that) does the proper X11
|
||
character-composition processing. If you don't want your Compose key
|
||
to do that, you can redefine it with xmodmap.
|
||
|
||
For example, here's one way to turn it into a Meta key:
|
||
|
||
xmodmap -e "keysym Multi_key = Meta_L"
|
||
|
||
If all users at your site of a particular keyboard prefer Meta to
|
||
Compose, you can make the remapping happen automatically by adding the
|
||
xmodmap command to the xdm setup script for that display.
|
||
|
||
*** Using X Windows, control-shift-leftbutton makes Emacs hang.
|
||
|
||
Use the shell command `xset bc' to make the old X Menu package work.
|
||
|
||
*** C-SPC fails to work on Fedora GNU/Linux.
|
||
|
||
Fedora Core 4 steals the C-SPC key by default for the `iiimx' program
|
||
which is the input method for some languages. It blocks Emacs users
|
||
from using the C-SPC key for `set-mark-command'.
|
||
|
||
One solutions is to remove the `<Ctrl>space' from the `Iiimx' file
|
||
which can be found in the `/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults' directory.
|
||
However, that requires root access.
|
||
|
||
Another is to specify `Emacs*useXIM: false' in your X resources.
|
||
|
||
Another is to build Emacs with the `--without-xim' configure option.
|
||
|
||
*** M-SPC seems to be ignored as input.
|
||
|
||
See if your X server is set up to use this as a command
|
||
for character composition.
|
||
|
||
*** The S-C-t key combination doesn't get passed to Emacs on X.
|
||
|
||
This happens because some X configurations assign the Ctrl-Shift-t
|
||
combination the same meaning as the Multi_key. The offending
|
||
definition is in the file `...lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose'; there
|
||
might be other similar combinations which are grabbed by X for similar
|
||
purposes.
|
||
|
||
We think that this can be countermanded with the `xmodmap' utility, if
|
||
you want to be able to bind one of these key sequences within Emacs.
|
||
|
||
*** Under X, C-v and/or other keys don't work.
|
||
|
||
These may have been intercepted by your window manager. In
|
||
particular, AfterStep 1.6 is reported to steal C-v in its default
|
||
configuration. Various Meta keys are also likely to be taken by the
|
||
configuration of the `feel'. See the WM's documentation for how to
|
||
change this.
|
||
|
||
*** Clicking C-mouse-2 in the scroll bar doesn't split the window.
|
||
|
||
This currently doesn't work with scroll-bar widgets (and we don't know
|
||
a good way of implementing it with widgets). If Emacs is configured
|
||
--without-toolkit-scroll-bars, C-mouse-2 on the scroll bar does work.
|
||
|
||
*** Inability to send an Alt-modified key, when Emacs is communicating
|
||
directly with an X server.
|
||
|
||
If you have tried to bind an Alt-modified key as a command, and it
|
||
does not work to type the command, the first thing you should check is
|
||
whether the key is getting through to Emacs. To do this, type C-h c
|
||
followed by the Alt-modified key. C-h c should say what kind of event
|
||
it read. If it says it read an Alt-modified key, then make sure you
|
||
have made the key binding correctly.
|
||
|
||
If C-h c reports an event that doesn't have the Alt modifier, it may
|
||
be because your X server has no key for the Alt modifier. The X
|
||
server that comes from MIT does not set up the Alt modifier by
|
||
default.
|
||
|
||
If your keyboard has keys named Alt, you can enable them as follows:
|
||
|
||
xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_L'
|
||
xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_R'
|
||
|
||
If the keyboard has just one key named Alt, then only one of those
|
||
commands is needed. The modifier `mod2' is a reasonable choice if you
|
||
are using an unmodified MIT version of X. Otherwise, choose any
|
||
modifier bit not otherwise used.
|
||
|
||
If your keyboard does not have keys named Alt, you can use some other
|
||
keys. Use the keysym command in xmodmap to turn a function key (or
|
||
some other 'spare' key) into Alt_L or into Alt_R, and then use the
|
||
commands show above to make them modifier keys.
|
||
|
||
Note that if you have Alt keys but no Meta keys, Emacs translates Alt
|
||
into Meta. This is because of the great importance of Meta in Emacs.
|
||
|
||
** Window-manager and toolkit-related problems
|
||
|
||
*** Gnome: Emacs' xterm-mouse-mode doesn't work on the Gnome terminal.
|
||
|
||
A symptom of this bug is that double-clicks insert a control sequence
|
||
into the buffer. The reason this happens is an apparent
|
||
incompatibility of the Gnome terminal with Xterm, which also affects
|
||
other programs using the Xterm mouse interface. A problem report has
|
||
been filed.
|
||
|
||
*** KDE: When running on KDE, colors or fonts are not as specified for Emacs,
|
||
or messed up.
|
||
|
||
For example, you could see background you set for Emacs only in the
|
||
empty portions of the Emacs display, while characters have some other
|
||
background.
|
||
|
||
This happens because KDE's defaults apply its color and font
|
||
definitions even to applications that weren't compiled for KDE. The
|
||
solution is to uncheck the "Apply fonts and colors to non-KDE apps"
|
||
option in Preferences->Look&Feel->Style (KDE 2). In KDE 3, this option
|
||
is in the "Colors" section, rather than "Style".
|
||
|
||
Alternatively, if you do want the KDE defaults to apply to other
|
||
applications, but not to Emacs, you could modify the file `Emacs.ad'
|
||
(should be in the `/usr/share/apps/kdisplay/app-defaults/' directory)
|
||
so that it doesn't set the default background and foreground only for
|
||
Emacs. For example, make sure the following resources are either not
|
||
present or commented out:
|
||
|
||
Emacs.default.attributeForeground
|
||
Emacs.default.attributeBackground
|
||
Emacs*Foreground
|
||
Emacs*Background
|
||
|
||
*** KDE: Emacs hangs on KDE when a large portion of text is killed.
|
||
|
||
This is caused by a bug in the KDE applet `klipper' which periodically
|
||
requests the X clipboard contents from applications. Early versions
|
||
of klipper don't implement the ICCM protocol for large selections,
|
||
which leads to Emacs being flooded with selection requests. After a
|
||
while, Emacs may print a message:
|
||
|
||
Timed out waiting for property-notify event
|
||
|
||
A workaround is to not use `klipper'. An upgrade to the `klipper' that
|
||
comes with KDE 3.3 or later also solves the problem.
|
||
|
||
*** CDE: Frames may cover dialogs they created when using CDE.
|
||
|
||
This can happen if you have "Allow Primary Windows On Top" enabled which
|
||
seems to be the default in the Common Desktop Environment.
|
||
To change, go in to "Desktop Controls" -> "Window Style Manager"
|
||
and uncheck "Allow Primary Windows On Top".
|
||
|
||
*** Xaw3d : When using Xaw3d scroll bars without arrows, the very first mouse
|
||
click in a scroll bar might be ignored by the scroll bar widget. This
|
||
is probably a bug in Xaw3d; when Xaw3d is compiled with arrows, the
|
||
problem disappears.
|
||
|
||
*** Xaw: There are known binary incompatibilities between Xaw, Xaw3d, neXtaw,
|
||
XawM and the few other derivatives of Xaw. So when you compile with
|
||
one of these, it may not work to dynamically link with another one.
|
||
For example, strange problems, such as Emacs exiting when you type
|
||
"C-x 1", were reported when Emacs compiled with Xaw3d and libXaw was
|
||
used with neXtaw at run time.
|
||
|
||
The solution is to rebuild Emacs with the toolkit version you actually
|
||
want to use, or set LD_PRELOAD to preload the same toolkit version you
|
||
built Emacs with.
|
||
|
||
*** Open Motif: Problems with file dialogs in Emacs built with Open Motif.
|
||
|
||
When Emacs 21 is built with Open Motif 2.1, it can happen that the
|
||
graphical file dialog boxes do not work properly. The "OK", "Filter"
|
||
and "Cancel" buttons do not respond to mouse clicks. Dragging the
|
||
file dialog window usually causes the buttons to work again.
|
||
|
||
The solution is to use LessTif instead. LessTif is a free replacement
|
||
for Motif. See the file INSTALL for information on how to do this.
|
||
|
||
Another workaround is not to use the mouse to trigger file prompts,
|
||
but to use the keyboard. This way, you will be prompted for a file in
|
||
the minibuffer instead of a graphical file dialog.
|
||
|
||
*** LessTif: Problems in Emacs built with LessTif.
|
||
|
||
The problems seem to depend on the version of LessTif and the Motif
|
||
emulation for which it is set up.
|
||
|
||
Only the Motif 1.2 emulation seems to be stable enough in LessTif.
|
||
Lesstif 0.92-17's Motif 1.2 emulation seems to work okay on FreeBSD.
|
||
On GNU/Linux systems, lesstif-0.92.6 configured with "./configure
|
||
--enable-build-12 --enable-default-12" is reported to be the most
|
||
successful. The binary GNU/Linux package
|
||
lesstif-devel-0.92.0-1.i386.rpm was reported to have problems with
|
||
menu placement.
|
||
|
||
On some systems, even with Motif 1.2 emulation, Emacs occasionally
|
||
locks up, grabbing all mouse and keyboard events. We still don't know
|
||
what causes these problems; they are not reproducible by Emacs
|
||
developers.
|
||
|
||
*** Motif: The Motif version of Emacs paints the screen a solid color.
|
||
|
||
This has been observed to result from the following X resource:
|
||
|
||
Emacs*default.attributeFont: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
|
||
|
||
That the resource has this effect indicates a bug in something, but we
|
||
do not yet know what. If it is an Emacs bug, we hope someone can
|
||
explain what the bug is so we can fix it. In the mean time, removing
|
||
the resource prevents the problem.
|
||
|
||
** General X problems
|
||
|
||
*** Redisplay using X11 is much slower than previous Emacs versions.
|
||
|
||
We've noticed that certain X servers draw the text much slower when
|
||
scroll bars are on the left. We don't know why this happens. If this
|
||
happens to you, you can work around it by putting the scroll bars
|
||
on the right (as they were in Emacs 19).
|
||
|
||
Here's how to do this:
|
||
|
||
(set-scroll-bar-mode 'right)
|
||
|
||
If you're not sure whether (or how much) this problem affects you,
|
||
try that and see how much difference it makes. To set things back
|
||
to normal, do
|
||
|
||
(set-scroll-bar-mode 'left)
|
||
|
||
*** Error messages about undefined colors on X.
|
||
|
||
The messages might say something like this:
|
||
|
||
Unable to load color "grey95"
|
||
|
||
(typically, in the `*Messages*' buffer), or something like this:
|
||
|
||
Error while displaying tooltip: (error Undefined color lightyellow)
|
||
|
||
These problems could happen if some other X program has used up too
|
||
many colors of the X palette, leaving Emacs with insufficient system
|
||
resources to load all the colors it needs.
|
||
|
||
A solution is to exit the offending X programs before starting Emacs.
|
||
|
||
*** Improving performance with slow X connections.
|
||
|
||
There are several ways to improve this performance, any subset of which can
|
||
be carried out at the same time:
|
||
|
||
1) If you don't need X Input Methods (XIM) for entering text in some
|
||
language you use, you can improve performance on WAN links by using
|
||
the X resource useXIM to turn off use of XIM. This does not affect
|
||
the use of Emacs' own input methods, which are part of the Leim
|
||
package.
|
||
|
||
2) If the connection is very slow, you might also want to consider
|
||
switching off scroll bars, menu bar, and tool bar.
|
||
|
||
3) Use ssh to forward the X connection, and enable compression on this
|
||
forwarded X connection (ssh -XC remotehostname emacs ...).
|
||
|
||
4) Use lbxproxy on the remote end of the connection. This is an interface
|
||
to the low bandwidth X extension in most modern X servers, which
|
||
improves performance dramatically, at the slight expense of correctness
|
||
of the X protocol. lbxproxy acheives the performance gain by grouping
|
||
several X requests in one TCP packet and sending them off together,
|
||
instead of requiring a round-trip for each X request in a seperate
|
||
packet. The switches that seem to work best for emacs are:
|
||
-noatomsfile -nowinattr -cheaterrors -cheatevents
|
||
Note that the -nograbcmap option is known to cause problems.
|
||
For more about lbxproxy, see:
|
||
http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/lbxproxy.1.html
|
||
|
||
*** Emacs gives the error, Couldn't find per display information.
|
||
|
||
This can result if the X server runs out of memory because Emacs uses
|
||
a large number of fonts. On systems where this happens, C-h h is
|
||
likely to cause it.
|
||
|
||
We do not know of a way to prevent the problem.
|
||
|
||
*** Emacs does not notice when you release the mouse.
|
||
|
||
There are reports that this happened with (some) Microsoft mice and
|
||
that replacing the mouse made it stop.
|
||
|
||
*** You can't select from submenus (in the X toolkit version).
|
||
|
||
On certain systems, mouse-tracking and selection in top-level menus
|
||
works properly with the X toolkit, but neither of them works when you
|
||
bring up a submenu (such as Bookmarks or Compare or Apply Patch, in
|
||
the Files menu).
|
||
|
||
This works on most systems. There is speculation that the failure is
|
||
due to bugs in old versions of X toolkit libraries, but no one really
|
||
knows. If someone debugs this and finds the precise cause, perhaps a
|
||
workaround can be found.
|
||
|
||
*** An error message such as `X protocol error: BadMatch (invalid
|
||
parameter attributes) on protocol request 93'.
|
||
|
||
This comes from having an invalid X resource, such as
|
||
emacs*Cursor: black
|
||
(which is invalid because it specifies a color name for something
|
||
that isn't a color.)
|
||
|
||
The fix is to correct your X resources.
|
||
|
||
*** Slow startup on X11R6 with X windows.
|
||
|
||
If Emacs takes two minutes to start up on X11R6, see if your X
|
||
resources specify any Adobe fonts. That causes the type-1 font
|
||
renderer to start up, even if the font you asked for is not a type-1
|
||
font.
|
||
|
||
One way to avoid this problem is to eliminate the type-1 fonts from
|
||
your font path, like this:
|
||
|
||
xset -fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
|
||
|
||
*** Pull-down menus appear in the wrong place, in the toolkit version of Emacs.
|
||
|
||
An X resource of this form can cause the problem:
|
||
|
||
Emacs*geometry: 80x55+0+0
|
||
|
||
This resource is supposed to apply, and does apply, to the menus
|
||
individually as well as to Emacs frames. If that is not what you
|
||
want, rewrite the resource.
|
||
|
||
To check thoroughly for such resource specifications, use `xrdb
|
||
-query' to see what resources the X server records, and also look at
|
||
the user's ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xdefaults-* files.
|
||
|
||
*** Emacs running under X Windows does not handle mouse clicks.
|
||
*** `emacs -geometry 80x20' finds a file named `80x20'.
|
||
|
||
One cause of such problems is having (setq term-file-prefix nil) in
|
||
your .emacs file. Another cause is a bad value of EMACSLOADPATH in
|
||
the environment.
|
||
|
||
*** Emacs fails to get default settings from X Windows server.
|
||
|
||
The X library in X11R4 has a bug; it interchanges the 2nd and 3rd
|
||
arguments to XGetDefaults. Define the macro XBACKWARDS in config.h to
|
||
tell Emacs to compensate for this.
|
||
|
||
I don't believe there is any way Emacs can determine for itself
|
||
whether this problem is present on a given system.
|
||
|
||
*** X Windows doesn't work if DISPLAY uses a hostname.
|
||
|
||
People have reported kernel bugs in certain systems that cause Emacs
|
||
not to work with X Windows if DISPLAY is set using a host name. But
|
||
the problem does not occur if DISPLAY is set to `unix:0.0'. I think
|
||
the bug has to do with SIGIO or FIONREAD.
|
||
|
||
You may be able to compensate for the bug by doing (set-input-mode nil nil).
|
||
However, that has the disadvantage of turning off interrupts, so that
|
||
you are unable to quit out of a Lisp program by typing C-g.
|
||
|
||
The easy way to do this is to put
|
||
|
||
(setq x-sigio-bug t)
|
||
|
||
in your site-init.el file.
|
||
|
||
* Runtime problems on character termunals
|
||
|
||
** Emacs spontaneously displays "I-search: " at the bottom of the screen.
|
||
|
||
This means that Control-S/Control-Q (XON/XOFF) "flow control" is being
|
||
used. C-s/C-q flow control is bad for Emacs editors because it takes
|
||
away C-s and C-q as user commands. Since editors do not output long
|
||
streams of text without user commands, there is no need for a
|
||
user-issuable "stop output" command in an editor; therefore, a
|
||
properly designed flow control mechanism would transmit all possible
|
||
input characters without interference. Designing such a mechanism is
|
||
easy, for a person with at least half a brain.
|
||
|
||
There are three possible reasons why flow control could be taking place:
|
||
|
||
1) Terminal has not been told to disable flow control
|
||
2) Insufficient padding for the terminal in use
|
||
3) Some sort of terminal concentrator or line switch is responsible
|
||
|
||
First of all, many terminals have a set-up mode which controls whether
|
||
they generate XON/XOFF flow control characters. This must be set to
|
||
"no XON/XOFF" in order for Emacs to work. Sometimes there is an
|
||
escape sequence that the computer can send to turn flow control off
|
||
and on. If so, perhaps the termcap `ti' string should turn flow
|
||
control off, and the `te' string should turn it on.
|
||
|
||
Once the terminal has been told "no flow control", you may find it
|
||
needs more padding. The amount of padding Emacs sends is controlled
|
||
by the termcap entry for the terminal in use, and by the output baud
|
||
rate as known by the kernel. The shell command `stty' will print
|
||
your output baud rate; `stty' with suitable arguments will set it if
|
||
it is wrong. Setting to a higher speed causes increased padding. If
|
||
the results are wrong for the correct speed, there is probably a
|
||
problem in the termcap entry. You must speak to a local Unix wizard
|
||
to fix this. Perhaps you are just using the wrong terminal type.
|
||
|
||
For terminals that lack a "no flow control" mode, sometimes just
|
||
giving lots of padding will prevent actual generation of flow control
|
||
codes. You might as well try it.
|
||
|
||
If you are really unlucky, your terminal is connected to the computer
|
||
through a concentrator which sends XON/XOFF flow control to the
|
||
computer, or it insists on sending flow control itself no matter how
|
||
much padding you give it. Unless you can figure out how to turn flow
|
||
control off on this concentrator (again, refer to your local wizard),
|
||
you are screwed! You should have the terminal or concentrator
|
||
replaced with a properly designed one. In the mean time, some drastic
|
||
measures can make Emacs semi-work.
|
||
|
||
You can make Emacs ignore C-s and C-q and let the operating system
|
||
handle them. To do this on a per-session basis, just type M-x
|
||
enable-flow-control RET. You will see a message that C-\ and C-^ are
|
||
now translated to C-s and C-q. (Use the same command M-x
|
||
enable-flow-control to turn *off* this special mode. It toggles flow
|
||
control handling.)
|
||
|
||
If C-\ and C-^ are inconvenient for you (for example, if one of them
|
||
is the escape character of your terminal concentrator), you can choose
|
||
other characters by setting the variables flow-control-c-s-replacement
|
||
and flow-control-c-q-replacement. But choose carefully, since all
|
||
other control characters are already used by emacs.
|
||
|
||
IMPORTANT: if you type C-s by accident while flow control is enabled,
|
||
Emacs output will freeze, and you will have to remember to type C-q in
|
||
order to continue.
|
||
|
||
If you work in an environment where a majority of terminals of a
|
||
certain type are flow control hobbled, you can use the function
|
||
`enable-flow-control-on' to turn on this flow control avoidance scheme
|
||
automatically. Here is an example:
|
||
|
||
(enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131")
|
||
|
||
If this isn't quite correct (e.g. you have a mixture of flow-control hobbled
|
||
and good vt200 terminals), you can still run enable-flow-control
|
||
manually.
|
||
|
||
I have no intention of ever redesigning the Emacs command set for the
|
||
assumption that terminals use C-s/C-q flow control. XON/XOFF flow
|
||
control technique is a bad design, and terminals that need it are bad
|
||
merchandise and should not be purchased. Now that X is becoming
|
||
widespread, XON/XOFF seems to be on the way out. If you can get some
|
||
use out of GNU Emacs on inferior terminals, more power to you, but I
|
||
will not make Emacs worse for properly designed systems for the sake
|
||
of inferior systems.
|
||
|
||
** Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely.
|
||
|
||
For some reason, your system is using brain-damaged C-s/C-q flow
|
||
control despite Emacs's attempts to turn it off. Perhaps your
|
||
terminal is connected to the computer through a concentrator
|
||
that wants to use flow control.
|
||
|
||
You should first try to tell the concentrator not to use flow control.
|
||
If you succeed in this, try making the terminal work without
|
||
flow control, as described in the preceding section.
|
||
|
||
If that line of approach is not successful, map some other characters
|
||
into C-s and C-q using keyboard-translate-table. The example above
|
||
shows how to do this with C-^ and C-\.
|
||
|
||
** Screen is updated wrong, but only on one kind of terminal.
|
||
|
||
This could mean that the termcap entry you are using for that
|
||
terminal is wrong, or it could mean that Emacs has a bug handing
|
||
the combination of features specified for that terminal.
|
||
|
||
The first step in tracking this down is to record what characters
|
||
Emacs is sending to the terminal. Execute the Lisp expression
|
||
(open-termscript "./emacs-script") to make Emacs write all
|
||
terminal output into the file ~/emacs-script as well; then do
|
||
what makes the screen update wrong, and look at the file
|
||
and decode the characters using the manual for the terminal.
|
||
There are several possibilities:
|
||
|
||
1) The characters sent are correct, according to the terminal manual.
|
||
|
||
In this case, there is no obvious bug in Emacs, and most likely you
|
||
need more padding, or possibly the terminal manual is wrong.
|
||
|
||
2) The characters sent are incorrect, due to an obscure aspect
|
||
of the terminal behavior not described in an obvious way
|
||
by termcap.
|
||
|
||
This case is hard. It will be necessary to think of a way for
|
||
Emacs to distinguish between terminals with this kind of behavior
|
||
and other terminals that behave subtly differently but are
|
||
classified the same by termcap; or else find an algorithm for
|
||
Emacs to use that avoids the difference. Such changes must be
|
||
tested on many kinds of terminals.
|
||
|
||
3) The termcap entry is wrong.
|
||
|
||
See the file etc/TERMS for information on changes
|
||
that are known to be needed in commonly used termcap entries
|
||
for certain terminals.
|
||
|
||
4) The characters sent are incorrect, and clearly cannot be
|
||
right for any terminal with the termcap entry you were using.
|
||
|
||
This is unambiguously an Emacs bug, and can probably be fixed
|
||
in termcap.c, tparam.c, term.c, scroll.c, cm.c or dispnew.c.
|
||
|
||
** Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely on a net connection.
|
||
|
||
Some versions of rlogin (and possibly telnet) do not pass flow
|
||
control characters to the remote system to which they connect.
|
||
On such systems, emacs on the remote system cannot disable flow
|
||
control on the local system.
|
||
|
||
One way to cure this is to disable flow control on the local host
|
||
(the one running rlogin, not the one running rlogind) using the
|
||
stty command, before starting the rlogin process. On many systems,
|
||
"stty start u stop u" will do this.
|
||
|
||
Some versions of tcsh will prevent even this from working. One way
|
||
around this is to start another shell before starting rlogin, and
|
||
issue the stty command to disable flow control from that shell.
|
||
|
||
If none of these methods work, the best solution is to type
|
||
M-x enable-flow-control at the beginning of your emacs session, or
|
||
if you expect the problem to continue, add a line such as the
|
||
following to your .emacs (on the host running rlogind):
|
||
|
||
(enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131")
|
||
|
||
See the entry about spontaneous display of I-search (above) for more
|
||
info.
|
||
|
||
** Output from Control-V is slow.
|
||
|
||
On many bit-map terminals, scrolling operations are fairly slow.
|
||
Often the termcap entry for the type of terminal in use fails
|
||
to inform Emacs of this. The two lines at the bottom of the screen
|
||
before a Control-V command are supposed to appear at the top after
|
||
the Control-V command. If Emacs thinks scrolling the lines is fast,
|
||
it will scroll them to the top of the screen.
|
||
|
||
If scrolling is slow but Emacs thinks it is fast, the usual reason is
|
||
that the termcap entry for the terminal you are using does not
|
||
specify any padding time for the `al' and `dl' strings. Emacs
|
||
concludes that these operations take only as much time as it takes to
|
||
send the commands at whatever line speed you are using. You must
|
||
fix the termcap entry to specify, for the `al' and `dl', as much
|
||
time as the operations really take.
|
||
|
||
Currently Emacs thinks in terms of serial lines which send characters
|
||
at a fixed rate, so that any operation which takes time for the
|
||
terminal to execute must also be padded. With bit-map terminals
|
||
operated across networks, often the network provides some sort of
|
||
flow control so that padding is never needed no matter how slow
|
||
an operation is. You must still specify a padding time if you want
|
||
Emacs to realize that the operation takes a long time. This will
|
||
cause padding characters to be sent unnecessarily, but they do
|
||
not really cost much. They will be transmitted while the scrolling
|
||
is happening and then discarded quickly by the terminal.
|
||
|
||
Most bit-map terminals provide commands for inserting or deleting
|
||
multiple lines at once. Define the `AL' and `DL' strings in the
|
||
termcap entry to say how to do these things, and you will have
|
||
fast output without wasted padding characters. These strings should
|
||
each contain a single %-spec saying how to send the number of lines
|
||
to be scrolled. These %-specs are like those in the termcap
|
||
`cm' string.
|
||
|
||
You should also define the `IC' and `DC' strings if your terminal
|
||
has a command to insert or delete multiple characters. These
|
||
take the number of positions to insert or delete as an argument.
|
||
|
||
A `cs' string to set the scrolling region will reduce the amount
|
||
of motion you see on the screen when part of the screen is scrolled.
|
||
|
||
** You type Control-H (Backspace) expecting to delete characters.
|
||
|
||
Put `stty dec' in your .login file and your problems will disappear
|
||
after a day or two.
|
||
|
||
The choice of Backspace for erasure was based on confusion, caused by
|
||
the fact that backspacing causes erasure (later, when you type another
|
||
character) on most display terminals. But it is a mistake. Deletion
|
||
of text is not the same thing as backspacing followed by failure to
|
||
overprint. I do not wish to propagate this confusion by conforming
|
||
to it.
|
||
|
||
For this reason, I believe `stty dec' is the right mode to use,
|
||
and I have designed Emacs to go with that. If there were a thousand
|
||
other control characters, I would define Control-h to delete as well;
|
||
but there are not very many other control characters, and I think
|
||
that providing the most mnemonic possible Help character is more
|
||
important than adapting to people who don't use `stty dec'.
|
||
|
||
If you are obstinate about confusing buggy overprinting with deletion,
|
||
you can redefine Backspace in your .emacs file:
|
||
(global-set-key "\b" 'delete-backward-char)
|
||
You can probably access help-command via f1.
|
||
|
||
** Colors are not available on a tty or in xterm.
|
||
|
||
Emacs 21 supports colors on character terminals and terminal
|
||
emulators, but this support relies on the terminfo or termcap database
|
||
entry to specify that the display supports color. Emacs looks at the
|
||
"Co" capability for the terminal to find out how many colors are
|
||
supported; it should be non-zero to activate the color support within
|
||
Emacs. (Most color terminals support 8 or 16 colors.) If your system
|
||
uses terminfo, the name of the capability equivalent to "Co" is
|
||
"colors".
|
||
|
||
In addition to the "Co" capability, Emacs needs the "op" (for
|
||
``original pair'') capability, which tells how to switch the terminal
|
||
back to the default foreground and background colors. Emacs will not
|
||
use colors if this capability is not defined. If your terminal entry
|
||
doesn't provide such a capability, try using the ANSI standard escape
|
||
sequence \E[00m (that is, define a new termcap/terminfo entry and make
|
||
it use your current terminal's entry plus \E[00m for the "op"
|
||
capability).
|
||
|
||
Finally, the "NC" capability (terminfo name: "ncv") tells Emacs which
|
||
attributes cannot be used with colors. Setting this capability
|
||
incorrectly might have the effect of disabling colors; try setting
|
||
this capability to `0' (zero) and see if that helps.
|
||
|
||
Emacs uses the database entry for the terminal whose name is the value
|
||
of the environment variable TERM. With `xterm', a common terminal
|
||
entry that supports color is `xterm-color', so setting TERM's value to
|
||
`xterm-color' might activate the color support on an xterm-compatible
|
||
emulator.
|
||
|
||
Beginning with version 22.1, Emacs supports the --color command-line
|
||
option which may be used to force Emacs to use one of a few popular
|
||
modes for getting colors on a tty. For example, --color=ansi8 sets up
|
||
for using the ANSI-standard escape sequences that support 8 colors.
|
||
|
||
Some modes do not use colors unless you turn on the Font-lock mode.
|
||
Some people have long ago set their `~/.emacs' files to turn on
|
||
Font-lock on X only, so they won't see colors on a tty. The
|
||
recommended way of turning on Font-lock is by typing "M-x
|
||
global-font-lock-mode RET" or by customizing the variable
|
||
`global-font-lock-mode'.
|
||
|
||
* Runtime problems specific to individual Unix variants
|
||
|
||
** GNU/Linux
|
||
|
||
*** GNU/Linux: Process output is corrupted.
|
||
|
||
There is a bug in Linux kernel 2.6.10 PTYs that can cause emacs to
|
||
read corrupted process output.
|
||
|
||
*** GNU/Linux: Remote access to CVS with SSH causes file corruption.
|
||
|
||
If you access a remote CVS repository via SSH, files may be corrupted
|
||
due to bad interaction between CVS, SSH, and libc.
|
||
|
||
To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it
|
||
executable, and set CVS_RSH environment variable to the file name of
|
||
the script:
|
||
|
||
#!/bin/bash
|
||
exec 2> >(exec cat >&2 2>/dev/null)
|
||
exec ssh "$@"
|
||
|
||
*** GNU/Linux: On Linux-based GNU systems using libc versions 5.4.19 through
|
||
5.4.22, Emacs crashes at startup with a segmentation fault.
|
||
|
||
This problem happens if libc defines the symbol __malloc_initialized.
|
||
One known solution is to upgrade to a newer libc version. 5.4.33 is
|
||
known to work.
|
||
|
||
*** GNU/Linux: After upgrading to a newer version of Emacs,
|
||
the Meta key stops working.
|
||
|
||
This was reported to happen on a GNU/Linux system distributed by
|
||
Mandrake. The reason is that the previous version of Emacs was
|
||
modified by Mandrake to make the Alt key act as the Meta key, on a
|
||
keyboard where the Windows key is the one which produces the Meta
|
||
modifier. A user who started using a newer version of Emacs, which
|
||
was not hacked by Mandrake, expected the Alt key to continue to act as
|
||
Meta, and was astonished when that didn't happen.
|
||
|
||
The solution is to find out what key on your keyboard produces the Meta
|
||
modifier, and use that key instead. Try all of the keys to the left
|
||
and to the right of the space bar, together with the `x' key, and see
|
||
which combination produces "M-x" in the echo area. You can also use
|
||
the `xmodmap' utility to show all the keys which produce a Meta
|
||
modifier:
|
||
|
||
xmodmap -pk | egrep -i "meta|alt"
|
||
|
||
A more convenient way of finding out which keys produce a Meta modifier
|
||
is to use the `xkbprint' utility, if it's available on your system:
|
||
|
||
xkbprint 0:0 /tmp/k.ps
|
||
|
||
This produces a PostScript file `/tmp/k.ps' with a picture of your
|
||
keyboard; printing that file on a PostScript printer will show what
|
||
keys can serve as Meta.
|
||
|
||
The `xkeycaps' also shows a visual representation of the current
|
||
keyboard settings. It also allows to modify them.
|
||
|
||
*** GNU/Linux: low startup on Linux-based GNU systems.
|
||
|
||
People using systems based on the Linux kernel sometimes report that
|
||
startup takes 10 to 15 seconds longer than `usual'.
|
||
|
||
This is because Emacs looks up the host name when it starts.
|
||
Normally, this takes negligible time; the extra delay is due to
|
||
improper system configuration. This problem can occur for both
|
||
networked and non-networked machines.
|
||
|
||
Here is how to fix the configuration. It requires being root.
|
||
|
||
**** Networked Case.
|
||
|
||
First, make sure the files `/etc/hosts' and `/etc/host.conf' both
|
||
exist. The first line in the `/etc/hosts' file should look like this
|
||
(replace HOSTNAME with your host name):
|
||
|
||
127.0.0.1 HOSTNAME
|
||
|
||
Also make sure that the `/etc/host.conf' files contains the following
|
||
lines:
|
||
|
||
order hosts, bind
|
||
multi on
|
||
|
||
Any changes, permanent and temporary, to the host name should be
|
||
indicated in the `/etc/hosts' file, since it acts a limited local
|
||
database of addresses and names (e.g., some SLIP connections
|
||
dynamically allocate ip addresses).
|
||
|
||
**** Non-Networked Case.
|
||
|
||
The solution described in the networked case applies here as well.
|
||
However, if you never intend to network your machine, you can use a
|
||
simpler solution: create an empty `/etc/host.conf' file. The command
|
||
`touch /etc/host.conf' suffices to create the file. The `/etc/hosts'
|
||
file is not necessary with this approach.
|
||
|
||
*** GNU/Linux: Emacs on a tty switches the cursor to large blinking block.
|
||
|
||
This was reported to happen on some GNU/Linux systems which use
|
||
ncurses version 5.0, but could be relevant for other versions as well.
|
||
These versions of ncurses come with a `linux' terminfo entry, where
|
||
the "cvvis" capability (termcap "vs") is defined as "\E[?25h\E[?8c"
|
||
(show cursor, change size). This escape sequence switches on a
|
||
blinking hardware text-mode cursor whose size is a full character
|
||
cell. This blinking cannot be stopped, since a hardware cursor
|
||
always blinks.
|
||
|
||
A work-around is to redefine the "cvvis" capability so that it
|
||
enables a *software* cursor. The software cursor works by inverting
|
||
the colors of the character at point, so what you see is a block
|
||
cursor that doesn't blink. For this to work, you need to redefine
|
||
the "cnorm" capability as well, so that it operates on the software
|
||
cursor instead of the hardware cursor.
|
||
|
||
To this end, run "infocmp linux > linux-term", edit the file
|
||
`linux-term' to make both the "cnorm" and "cvvis" capabilities send
|
||
the sequence "\E[?25h\E[?17;0;64c", and then run "tic linux-term" to
|
||
produce a modified terminfo entry.
|
||
|
||
Alternatively, if you want a blinking underscore as your Emacs cursor,
|
||
change the "cvvis" capability to send the "\E[?25h\E[?0c" command.
|
||
|
||
*** GNU/Linux: Error messages `internal facep []' happen on GNU/Linux systems.
|
||
|
||
There is a report that replacing libc.so.5.0.9 with libc.so.5.2.16
|
||
caused this to start happening. People are not sure why, but the
|
||
problem seems unlikely to be in Emacs itself. Some suspect that it
|
||
is actually Xlib which won't work with libc.so.5.2.16.
|
||
|
||
Using the old library version is a workaround.
|
||
|
||
** Mac OS X
|
||
|
||
*** Mac OS X (Carbon): Environment Variables from dotfiles are ignored.
|
||
|
||
When starting Emacs from the Dock or the Finder on Mac OS X, the
|
||
environment variables that are set up in dotfiles, such as .cshrc or
|
||
.profile, are ignored. This is because the Finder and Dock are not
|
||
started from a shell, but instead from the Window Manager itself.
|
||
|
||
The workaround for this is to create a .MacOSX/environment.plist file to
|
||
setup these environment variables. These environment variables will
|
||
apply to all processes regardless of where they are started.
|
||
For me information, see http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html.
|
||
|
||
*** Mac OS X (Carbon): Process output truncated when using ptys.
|
||
|
||
There appears to be a problem with the implementation of pty's on the
|
||
Mac OS X that causes process output to be truncated. To avoid this,
|
||
leave process-connection-type set to its default value of nil.
|
||
|
||
** FreeBSD
|
||
|
||
*** FreeBSD 2.1.5: useless symbolic links remain in /tmp or other
|
||
directories that have the +t bit.
|
||
|
||
This is because of a kernel bug in FreeBSD 2.1.5 (fixed in 2.2).
|
||
Emacs uses symbolic links to implement file locks. In a directory
|
||
with +t bit, the directory owner becomes the owner of the symbolic
|
||
link, so that it cannot be removed by anyone else.
|
||
|
||
If you don't like those useless links, you can let Emacs not to using
|
||
file lock by adding #undef CLASH_DETECTION to config.h.
|
||
|
||
*** FreeBSD: Getting a Meta key on the console.
|
||
|
||
By default, neither Alt nor any other key acts as a Meta key on
|
||
FreeBSD, but this can be changed using kbdcontrol(1). Dump the
|
||
current keymap to a file with the command
|
||
|
||
$ kbdcontrol -d >emacs.kbd
|
||
|
||
Edit emacs.kbd, and give the key you want to be the Meta key the
|
||
definition `meta'. For instance, if your keyboard has a ``Windows''
|
||
key with scan code 105, change the line for scan code 105 in emacs.kbd
|
||
to look like this
|
||
|
||
105 meta meta meta meta meta meta meta meta O
|
||
|
||
to make the Windows key the Meta key. Load the new keymap with
|
||
|
||
$ kbdcontrol -l emacs.kbd
|
||
|
||
** HP-UX
|
||
|
||
*** HP/UX : Shell mode gives the message, "`tty`: Ambiguous".
|
||
|
||
christos@theory.tn.cornell.edu says:
|
||
|
||
The problem is that in your .cshrc you have something that tries to
|
||
execute `tty`. If you are not running the shell on a real tty then
|
||
tty will print "not a tty". Csh expects one word in some places,
|
||
but tty is giving it back 3.
|
||
|
||
The solution is to add a pair of quotes around `tty` to make it a single
|
||
word:
|
||
|
||
if (`tty` == "/dev/console")
|
||
|
||
should be changed to:
|
||
|
||
if ("`tty`" == "/dev/console")
|
||
|
||
Even better, move things that set up terminal sections out of .cshrc
|
||
and into .login.
|
||
|
||
*** HP/UX: `Pid xxx killed due to text modification or page I/O error'.
|
||
|
||
On HP/UX, you can get that error when the Emacs executable is on an NFS
|
||
file system. HP/UX responds this way if it tries to swap in a page and
|
||
does not get a response from the server within a timeout whose default
|
||
value is just ten seconds.
|
||
|
||
If this happens to you, extend the timeout period.
|
||
|
||
*** HP/UX: The right Alt key works wrong on German HP keyboards (and perhaps
|
||
other non-English HP keyboards too).
|
||
|
||
This is because HP-UX defines the modifiers wrong in X. Here is a
|
||
shell script to fix the problem; be sure that it is run after VUE
|
||
configures the X server.
|
||
|
||
xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF
|
||
keysym Alt_L = Meta_L
|
||
keysym Alt_R = Meta_R
|
||
EOF
|
||
|
||
xmodmap - << EOF
|
||
clear mod1
|
||
keysym Mode_switch = NoSymbol
|
||
add mod1 = Meta_L
|
||
keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch
|
||
add mod2 = Mode_switch
|
||
EOF
|
||
|
||
*** HP/UX: "Cannot find callback list" messages from dialog boxes in
|
||
Emacs built with Motif.
|
||
|
||
This problem resulted from a bug in GCC 2.4.5. Newer GCC versions
|
||
such as 2.7.0 fix the problem.
|
||
|
||
*** HP/UX: Emacs does not recognize the AltGr key.
|
||
|
||
To fix this, set up a file ~/.dt/sessions/sessionetc with executable
|
||
rights, containing this text:
|
||
|
||
--------------------------------
|
||
xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF
|
||
keysym Alt_L = Meta_L
|
||
keysym Alt_R = Meta_R
|
||
EOF
|
||
|
||
xmodmap - << EOF
|
||
clear mod1
|
||
keysym Mode_switch = NoSymbol
|
||
add mod1 = Meta_L
|
||
keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch
|
||
add mod2 = Mode_switch
|
||
EOF
|
||
--------------------------------
|
||
|
||
*** HP/UX 11.0: Emacs makes HP/UX 11.0 crash.
|
||
|
||
This is a bug in HPUX; HPUX patch PHKL_16260 is said to fix it.
|
||
|
||
** AIX
|
||
|
||
*** AIX: Trouble using ptys.
|
||
|
||
People often install the pty devices on AIX incorrectly.
|
||
Use `smit pty' to reinstall them properly.
|
||
|
||
*** AIXterm: Your Delete key sends a Backspace to the terminal.
|
||
|
||
The solution is to include in your .Xdefaults the lines:
|
||
|
||
*aixterm.Translations: #override <Key>BackSpace: string(0x7f)
|
||
aixterm*ttyModes: erase ^?
|
||
|
||
This makes your Backspace key send DEL (ASCII 127).
|
||
|
||
*** AIX: If linking fails because libXbsd isn't found, check if you
|
||
are compiling with the system's `cc' and CFLAGS containing `-O5'. If
|
||
so, you have hit a compiler bug. Please make sure to re-configure
|
||
Emacs so that it isn't compiled with `-O5'.
|
||
|
||
*** AIX 4.3.x or 4.4: Compiling fails.
|
||
|
||
This could happen if you use /bin/c89 as your compiler, instead of
|
||
the default `cc'. /bin/c89 treats certain warnings, such as benign
|
||
redefinitions of macros, as errors, and fails the build. A solution
|
||
is to use the default compiler `cc'.
|
||
|
||
*** AIX 4: Some programs fail when run in a Shell buffer
|
||
with an error message like No terminfo entry for "unknown".
|
||
|
||
On AIX, many terminal type definitions are not installed by default.
|
||
`unknown' is one of them. Install the "Special Generic Terminal
|
||
Definitions" to make them defined.
|
||
|
||
** Solaris
|
||
|
||
We list bugs in current versions here. Solaris 2.x and 4.x are covered in the
|
||
section on legacy systems.
|
||
|
||
*** On Solaris, C-x doesn't get through to Emacs when you use the console.
|
||
|
||
This is a Solaris feature (at least on Intel x86 cpus). Type C-r
|
||
C-r C-t, to toggle whether C-x gets through to Emacs.
|
||
|
||
*** Problem with remote X server on Suns.
|
||
|
||
On a Sun, running Emacs on one machine with the X server on another
|
||
may not work if you have used the unshared system libraries. This
|
||
is because the unshared libraries fail to use YP for host name lookup.
|
||
As a result, the host name you specify may not be recognized.
|
||
|
||
*** Solaris 2,6: Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV on Solaris after you delete a frame.
|
||
|
||
We suspect that this is a bug in the X libraries provided by
|
||
Sun. There is a report that one of these patches fixes the bug and
|
||
makes the problem stop:
|
||
|
||
105216-01 105393-01 105518-01 105621-01 105665-01 105615-02 105216-02
|
||
105667-01 105401-08 105615-03 105621-02 105686-02 105736-01 105755-03
|
||
106033-01 105379-01 105786-01 105181-04 105379-03 105786-04 105845-01
|
||
105284-05 105669-02 105837-01 105837-02 105558-01 106125-02 105407-01
|
||
|
||
Another person using a newer system (kernel patch level Generic_105181-06)
|
||
suspects that the bug was fixed by one of these more recent patches:
|
||
|
||
106040-07 SunOS 5.6: X Input & Output Method patch
|
||
106222-01 OpenWindows 3.6: filemgr (ff.core) fixes
|
||
105284-12 Motif 1.2.7: sparc Runtime library patch
|
||
|
||
*** Solaris 7 or 8: Emacs reports a BadAtom error (from X)
|
||
|
||
This happens when Emacs was built on some other version of Solaris.
|
||
Rebuild it on Solaris 8.
|
||
|
||
*** When using M-x dbx with the SparcWorks debugger, the `up' and `down'
|
||
commands do not move the arrow in Emacs.
|
||
|
||
You can fix this by adding the following line to `~/.dbxinit':
|
||
|
||
dbxenv output_short_file_name off
|
||
|
||
*** On Solaris, CTRL-t is ignored by Emacs when you use
|
||
the fr.ISO-8859-15 locale (and maybe other related locales).
|
||
|
||
You can fix this by editing the file:
|
||
|
||
/usr/openwin/lib/locale/iso8859-15/Compose
|
||
|
||
Near the bottom there is a line that reads:
|
||
|
||
Ctrl<t> <quotedbl> <Y> : "\276" threequarters
|
||
|
||
that should read:
|
||
|
||
Ctrl<T> <quotedbl> <Y> : "\276" threequarters
|
||
|
||
Note the lower case <t>. Changing this line should make C-t work.
|
||
|
||
** Irix
|
||
|
||
*** Irix 6.5: Emacs crashes on the SGI R10K, when compiled with GCC.
|
||
|
||
This seems to be fixed in GCC 2.95.
|
||
|
||
*** Irix: Trouble using ptys, or running out of ptys.
|
||
|
||
The program mkpts (which may be in `/usr/adm' or `/usr/sbin') needs to
|
||
be set-UID to root, or non-root programs like Emacs will not be able
|
||
to allocate ptys reliably.
|
||
|
||
* Runtime problems specific to MS-Windows
|
||
|
||
** Emacs exits with "X protocol error" when run with an X server for MS-Windows.
|
||
|
||
A certain X server for Windows had a bug which caused this.
|
||
Supposedly the newer 32-bit version of this server doesn't have the
|
||
problem.
|
||
|
||
** Known problems with the MS-Windows port of Emacs 21.2.
|
||
|
||
Frames are not refreshed while the File or Font dialog or a pop-up menu
|
||
is displayed. This also means help text for pop-up menus is not
|
||
displayed at all. This is because message handling under Windows is
|
||
synchronous, so we cannot handle repaint (or any other) messages while
|
||
waiting for a system function to return the result of the dialog or
|
||
pop-up menu interaction.
|
||
|
||
Windows 95 and Windows NT up to version 4.0 do not support help text
|
||
for menus. Help text is only available in later versions of Windows.
|
||
|
||
There are problems with display if mouse-tracking is enabled and the
|
||
mouse is moved off a frame, over another frame then back over the first
|
||
frame. A workaround is to click the left mouse button inside the frame
|
||
after moving back into it.
|
||
|
||
Some minor flickering still persists during mouse-tracking, although
|
||
not as severely as in 21.1.
|
||
|
||
Emacs can sometimes abort when non-ASCII text, possibly with null
|
||
characters, is copied and pasted into a buffer.
|
||
|
||
An inactive cursor remains in an active window after the Windows
|
||
Manager driven switch of the focus, until a key is pressed.
|
||
|
||
Windows input methods are not recognized by Emacs (as of v21.2). Some
|
||
of these input methods cause the keyboard to send characters encoded
|
||
in the appropriate coding system (e.g., ISO 8859-1 for Latin-1
|
||
characters, ISO 8859-8 for Hebrew characters, etc.). To make this
|
||
work, set the keyboard coding system to the appropriate value after
|
||
you activate the Windows input method. For example, if you activate
|
||
the Hebrew input method, type "C-x RET k iso-8859-8 RET". (Emacs
|
||
ought to recognize the Windows language-change event and set up the
|
||
appropriate keyboard encoding automatically, but it doesn't do that
|
||
yet.)
|
||
|
||
The %b specifier for format-time-string does not produce abbreviated
|
||
month names with consistent widths for some locales on some versions
|
||
of Windows. This is caused by a deficiency in the underlying system
|
||
library function.
|
||
|
||
** Typing Alt-Shift has strange effects on MS-Windows.
|
||
|
||
This combination of keys is a command to change keyboard layout. If
|
||
you proceed to type another non-modifier key before you let go of Alt
|
||
and Shift, the Alt and Shift act as modifiers in the usual way. A
|
||
more permanent work around is to change it to another key combination,
|
||
or disable it in the keyboard control panel.
|
||
|
||
** Interrupting Cygwin port of Bash from Emacs doesn't work.
|
||
|
||
Cygwin 1.x builds of the ported Bash cannot be interrupted from the
|
||
MS-Windows version of Emacs. This is due to some change in the Bash
|
||
port or in the Cygwin library which apparently make Bash ignore the
|
||
keyboard interrupt event sent by Emacs to Bash. (Older Cygwin ports
|
||
of Bash, up to b20.1, did receive SIGINT from Emacs.)
|
||
|
||
** Accessing remote files with ange-ftp hangs the MS-Windows version of Emacs.
|
||
|
||
If the FTP client is the Cygwin port of GNU `ftp', this appears to be
|
||
due to some bug in the Cygwin DLL or some incompatibility between it
|
||
and the implementation of asynchronous subprocesses in the Windows
|
||
port of Emacs. Specifically, some parts of the FTP server responses
|
||
are not flushed out, apparently due to buffering issues, which
|
||
confuses ange-ftp.
|
||
|
||
The solution is to downgrade to an older version of the Cygwin DLL
|
||
(version 1.3.2 was reported to solve the problem), or use the stock
|
||
Windows FTP client, usually found in the `C:\WINDOWS' or 'C:\WINNT'
|
||
directory. To force ange-ftp use the stock Windows client, set the
|
||
variable `ange-ftp-ftp-program-name' to the absolute file name of the
|
||
client's executable. For example:
|
||
|
||
(setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-name "c:/windows/ftp.exe")
|
||
|
||
If you want to stick with the Cygwin FTP client, you can work around
|
||
this problem by putting this in your `.emacs' file:
|
||
|
||
(setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v" "--prompt" "")
|
||
|
||
** lpr commands don't work on MS-Windows with some cheap printers.
|
||
|
||
This problem may also strike other platforms, but the solution is
|
||
likely to be a global one, and not Emacs specific.
|
||
|
||
Many cheap inkjet, and even some cheap laser printers, do not
|
||
print plain text anymore, they will only print through graphical
|
||
printer drivers. A workaround on MS-Windows is to use Windows' basic
|
||
built in editor to print (this is possibly the only useful purpose it
|
||
has):
|
||
|
||
(setq printer-name "") ;; notepad takes the default
|
||
(setq lpr-command "notepad") ;; notepad
|
||
(setq lpr-switches nil) ;; not needed
|
||
(setq lpr-printer-switch "/P") ;; run notepad as batch printer
|
||
|
||
** Antivirus software interacts badly with the MS-Windows version of Emacs.
|
||
|
||
The usual manifestation of these problems is that subprocesses don't
|
||
work or even wedge the entire system. In particular, "M-x shell RET"
|
||
was reported to fail to work. But other commands also sometimes don't
|
||
work when an antivirus package is installed.
|
||
|
||
The solution is to switch the antivirus software to a less aggressive
|
||
mode (e.g., disable the ``auto-protect'' feature), or even uninstall
|
||
or disable it entirely.
|
||
|
||
** Pressing the mouse button on MS-Windows does not give a mouse-2 event.
|
||
|
||
This is usually a problem with the mouse driver. Because most Windows
|
||
programs do not do anything useful with the middle mouse button, many
|
||
mouse drivers allow you to define the wheel press to do something
|
||
different. Some drivers do not even have the option to generate a
|
||
middle button press. In such cases, setting the wheel press to
|
||
"scroll" sometimes works if you press the button twice. Trying a
|
||
generic mouse driver might help.
|
||
|
||
** Scrolling the mouse wheel on MS-Windows always scrolls the top window.
|
||
|
||
This is another common problem with mouse drivers. Instead of
|
||
generating scroll events, some mouse drivers try to fake scroll bar
|
||
movement. But they are not intelligent enough to handle multiple
|
||
scroll bars within a frame. Trying a generic mouse driver might help.
|
||
|
||
** Mail sent through Microsoft Exchange in some encodings appears to be
|
||
mangled and is not seen correctly in Rmail or Gnus. We don't know
|
||
exactly what happens, but it isn't an Emacs problem in cases we've
|
||
seen.
|
||
|
||
** On MS-Windows, you cannot use the right-hand ALT key and the left-hand
|
||
CTRL key together to type a Control-Meta character.
|
||
|
||
This is a consequence of a misfeature beyond Emacs's control.
|
||
|
||
Under Windows, the AltGr key on international keyboards generates key
|
||
events with the modifiers Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl. Since Emacs cannot
|
||
distinguish AltGr from an explicit Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl
|
||
combination, whenever it sees Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl it assumes that
|
||
AltGr has been pressed. The variable `w32-recognize-altgr' can be set
|
||
to nil to tell Emacs that AltGr is really Ctrl and Alt.
|
||
|
||
** Under some X-servers running on MS-Windows, Emacs' display is incorrect.
|
||
|
||
The symptoms are that Emacs does not completely erase blank areas of the
|
||
screen during scrolling or some other screen operations (e.g., selective
|
||
display or when killing a region). M-x recenter will cause the screen
|
||
to be completely redisplayed and the "extra" characters will disappear.
|
||
|
||
This is known to occur under Exceed 6, and possibly earlier versions
|
||
as well; it is reportedly solved in version 6.2.0.16 and later. The
|
||
problem lies in the X-server settings.
|
||
|
||
There are reports that you can solve the problem with Exceed by
|
||
running `Xconfig' from within NT, choosing "X selection", then
|
||
un-checking the boxes "auto-copy X selection" and "auto-paste to X
|
||
selection".
|
||
|
||
Of this does not work, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. Then
|
||
please call support for your X-server and see if you can get a fix.
|
||
If you do, please send it to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org so we can list it
|
||
here.
|
||
|
||
* Build-time problems
|
||
|
||
** Configuration
|
||
|
||
*** The `configure' script doesn't find the jpeg library.
|
||
|
||
There are reports that this happens on some systems because the linker
|
||
by default only looks for shared libraries, but jpeg distribution by
|
||
default only installs a nonshared version of the library, `libjpeg.a'.
|
||
|
||
If this is the problem, you can configure the jpeg library with the
|
||
`--enable-shared' option and then rebuild libjpeg. This produces a
|
||
shared version of libjpeg, which you need to install. Finally, rerun
|
||
the Emacs configure script, which should now find the jpeg library.
|
||
Alternatively, modify the generated src/Makefile to link the .a file
|
||
explicitly, and edit src/config.h to define HAVE_JPEG.
|
||
|
||
** Compilation
|
||
|
||
*** Building Emacs over NFS fails with ``Text file busy''.
|
||
|
||
This was reported to happen when building Emacs on a GNU/Linux system
|
||
(RedHat Linux 6.2) using a build directory automounted from Solaris
|
||
(SunOS 5.6) file server, but it might not be limited to that
|
||
configuration alone. Presumably, the NFS server doesn't commit the
|
||
files' data to disk quickly enough, and the Emacs executable file is
|
||
left ``busy'' for several seconds after Emacs has finished dumping
|
||
itself. This causes the subsequent commands which invoke the dumped
|
||
Emacs executable to fail with the above message.
|
||
|
||
In some of these cases, a time skew between the NFS server and the
|
||
machine where Emacs is built is detected and reported by GNU Make
|
||
(it says that some of the files have modification time in the future).
|
||
This might be a symptom of NFS-related problems.
|
||
|
||
If the NFS server runs on Solaris, apply the Solaris patch 105379-05
|
||
(Sunos 5.6: /kernel/misc/nfssrv patch). If that doesn't work, or if
|
||
you have a different version of the OS or the NFS server, you can
|
||
force the NFS server to use 1KB blocks, which was reported to fix the
|
||
problem albeit at a price of slowing down file I/O. You can force 1KB
|
||
blocks by specifying the "-o rsize=1024,wsize=1024" options to the
|
||
`mount' command, or by adding ",rsize=1024,wsize=1024" to the mount
|
||
options in the appropriate system configuration file, such as
|
||
`/etc/auto.home'.
|
||
|
||
Alternatively, when Make fails due to this problem, you could wait for
|
||
a few seconds and then invoke Make again. In one particular case,
|
||
waiting for 10 or more seconds between the two Make invocations seemed
|
||
to work around the problem.
|
||
|
||
Similar problems can happen if your machine NFS-mounts a directory
|
||
onto itself. Suppose the Emacs sources live in `/usr/local/src' and
|
||
you are working on the host called `marvin'. Then an entry in the
|
||
`/etc/fstab' file like the following is asking for trouble:
|
||
|
||
marvin:/usr/local/src /usr/local/src ...options.omitted...
|
||
|
||
The solution is to remove this line from `etc/fstab'.
|
||
|
||
*** Building Emacs with GCC 2.9x fails in the `src' directory.
|
||
|
||
This may happen if you use a development version of GNU `cpp' from one
|
||
of the GCC snapshots between Oct 2000 and Feb 2001, or from a released
|
||
version of GCC newer than 2.95.2 which was prepared around those
|
||
dates; similar problems were reported with some snapshots of GCC 3.1
|
||
around Sep 30 2001. The preprocessor in those versions is
|
||
incompatible with a traditional Unix cpp (e.g., it expands ".." into
|
||
". .", which breaks relative file names that reference the parent
|
||
directory; or inserts TAB characters before lines that set Make
|
||
variables).
|
||
|
||
The solution is to make sure the preprocessor is run with the
|
||
`-traditional' option. The `configure' script does that automatically
|
||
when it detects the known problems in your cpp, but you might hit some
|
||
unknown ones. To force the `configure' script to use `-traditional',
|
||
run the script like this:
|
||
|
||
CPP='gcc -E -traditional' ./configure ...
|
||
|
||
(replace the ellipsis "..." with any additional arguments you pass to
|
||
the script).
|
||
|
||
Note that this problem does not pertain to the MS-Windows port of
|
||
Emacs, since it doesn't use the preprocessor to generate Makefiles.
|
||
|
||
*** src/Makefile and lib-src/Makefile are truncated--most of the file missing.
|
||
*** Compiling wakeup, in lib-src, says it can't make wakeup.c.
|
||
|
||
This can happen if configure uses GNU sed version 2.03. That version
|
||
had a bug. GNU sed version 2.05 works properly.To solve the
|
||
problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun Emacs's
|
||
configure script.
|
||
|
||
*** Compiling lib-src says there is no rule to make test-distrib.c.
|
||
|
||
This results from a bug in a VERY old version of GNU Sed. To solve
|
||
the problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun
|
||
Emacs's configure script.
|
||
|
||
*** Building the MS-Windows port with Cygwin GCC can fail.
|
||
|
||
Emacs may not build using recent Cygwin builds of GCC, such as Cygwin
|
||
version 1.1.8, using the default configure settings. It appears to be
|
||
necessary to specify the -mwin32 flag when compiling, and define
|
||
__MSVCRT__, like so:
|
||
|
||
configure --with-gcc --cflags -mwin32 --cflags -D__MSVCRT__
|
||
|
||
*** Building the MS-Windows port fails with a CreateProcess failure.
|
||
|
||
Some versions of mingw32 make on some versions of Windows do not seem
|
||
to detect the shell correctly. Try "make SHELL=cmd.exe", or if that
|
||
fails, try running make from Cygwin bash instead.
|
||
|
||
*** Building the MS-Windows port with Leim fails in the `leim' directory.
|
||
|
||
The error message might be something like this:
|
||
|
||
Converting d:/emacs-21.3/leim/CXTERM-DIC/4Corner.tit to quail-package...
|
||
Invalid ENCODE: value in TIT dictionary
|
||
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"../src/obj-spd/i386/emacs.exe"' : return code
|
||
'0xffffffff'
|
||
Stop.
|
||
|
||
This can happen if the Leim distribution is unpacked with a program
|
||
which converts the `*.tit' files to DOS-style CR-LF text format. The
|
||
`*.tit' files in the leim/CXTERM-DIC directory require Unix-style line
|
||
endings to compile properly, because Emacs reads them without any code
|
||
or EOL conversions.
|
||
|
||
The solution is to make sure the program used to unpack Leim does not
|
||
change the files' line endings behind your back. The GNU FTP site has
|
||
in the `/gnu/emacs/windows' directory a program called `djtarnt.exe'
|
||
which can be used to unpack `.tar.gz' and `.zip' archives without
|
||
mangling them.
|
||
|
||
*** Building `ctags' for MS-Windows with the MinGW port of GCC fails.
|
||
|
||
This might happen due to a bug in the MinGW header assert.h, which
|
||
defines the `assert' macro with a trailing semi-colon. The following
|
||
patch to assert.h should solve this:
|
||
|
||
*** include/assert.h.orig Sun Nov 7 02:41:36 1999
|
||
--- include/assert.h Mon Jan 29 11:49:10 2001
|
||
***************
|
||
*** 41,47 ****
|
||
/*
|
||
* If not debugging, assert does nothing.
|
||
*/
|
||
! #define assert(x) ((void)0);
|
||
|
||
#else /* debugging enabled */
|
||
|
||
--- 41,47 ----
|
||
/*
|
||
* If not debugging, assert does nothing.
|
||
*/
|
||
! #define assert(x) ((void)0)
|
||
|
||
#else /* debugging enabled */
|
||
|
||
|
||
** Linking
|
||
|
||
*** Building Emacs with a system compiler fails to link because of an
|
||
undefined symbol such as __eprintf which does not appear in Emacs.
|
||
|
||
This can happen if some of the libraries linked into Emacs were built
|
||
with GCC, but Emacs itself is being linked with a compiler other than
|
||
GCC. Object files compiled with GCC might need some helper functions
|
||
from libgcc.a, the library which comes with GCC, but the system
|
||
compiler does not instruct the linker to search libgcc.a during the
|
||
link stage.
|
||
|
||
A solution is to link with GCC, like this:
|
||
|
||
make CC=gcc
|
||
|
||
Since the .o object files already exist, this will not recompile Emacs
|
||
with GCC, but just restart by trying again to link temacs.
|
||
|
||
*** AIX 1.3 ptf 0013: Link failure.
|
||
|
||
There is a real duplicate definition of the function `_slibc_free' in
|
||
the library /lib/libc_s.a (just do nm on it to verify). The
|
||
workaround/fix is:
|
||
|
||
cd /lib
|
||
ar xv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o
|
||
ar dv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o
|
||
|
||
*** AIX 4.1.2: Linker error messages such as
|
||
ld: 0711-212 SEVERE ERROR: Symbol .__quous, found in the global symbol table
|
||
of archive /usr/lib/libIM.a, was not defined in archive member shr.o.
|
||
|
||
This is a problem in libIM.a. You can work around it by executing
|
||
these shell commands in the src subdirectory of the directory where
|
||
you build Emacs:
|
||
|
||
cp /usr/lib/libIM.a .
|
||
chmod 664 libIM.a
|
||
ranlib libIM.a
|
||
|
||
Then change -lIM to ./libIM.a in the command to link temacs (in
|
||
Makefile).
|
||
|
||
*** Sun with acc: Link failure when using acc on a Sun.
|
||
|
||
To use acc, you need additional options just before the libraries, such as
|
||
|
||
/usr/lang/SC2.0.1/values-Xt.o -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1/cg87 -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1
|
||
|
||
and you need to add -lansi just before -lc.
|
||
|
||
The precise file names depend on the compiler version, so we
|
||
cannot easily arrange to supply them.
|
||
|
||
*** Linking says that the functions insque and remque are undefined.
|
||
|
||
Change oldXMenu/Makefile by adding insque.o to the variable OBJS.
|
||
|
||
*** `tparam' reported as a multiply-defined symbol when linking with ncurses.
|
||
|
||
This problem results from an incompatible change in ncurses, in
|
||
version 1.9.9e approximately. This version is unable to provide a
|
||
definition of tparm without also defining tparam. This is also
|
||
incompatible with Terminfo; as a result, the Emacs Terminfo support
|
||
does not work with this version of ncurses.
|
||
|
||
The fix is to install a newer version of ncurses, such as version 4.2.
|
||
|
||
** Dumping
|
||
|
||
*** Linux: Segfault during `make bootstrap' under certain recent versions of the Linux kernel.
|
||
|
||
With certain recent Linux kernels (like the one of Redhat Fedora Core
|
||
1 and 2), the new "Exec-shield" functionality is enabled by default, which
|
||
creates a different memory layout that breaks the emacs dumper.
|
||
The work-around explained here is not enough on Fedora Core 4. Read the
|
||
next item.
|
||
|
||
Configure can overcome the problem of exec-shield if the architecture is
|
||
x86 and the program setarch is present. On other architectures no
|
||
workaround is known.
|
||
|
||
You can check the Exec-shield state like this:
|
||
|
||
cat /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield
|
||
|
||
It returns non-zero when Exec-shield is enabled, 0 otherwise. Please
|
||
read your system documentation for more details on Exec-shield and
|
||
associated commands. Exec-shield can be turned off with this command:
|
||
|
||
echo "0" > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield
|
||
|
||
When Exec-shield is enabled, building Emacs will segfault during the
|
||
execution of this command:
|
||
|
||
./temacs --batch --load loadup [dump|bootstrap]
|
||
|
||
To work around this problem, it is necessary to temporarily disable
|
||
Exec-shield while building Emacs, or, on x86, by using the `setarch'
|
||
command when running temacs like this:
|
||
|
||
setarch i386 ./temacs --batch --load loadup [dump|bootstrap]
|
||
|
||
*** Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping.
|
||
|
||
In addition to exec-shield explained above "Linux: Segfault during
|
||
`make bootstrap' under certain recent versions of the Linux kernel"
|
||
item, Linux kernel shipped with Fedora Core 4 randomizes the virtual
|
||
address space of a process. As the result dumping is failed even if
|
||
you turn off the exec-shield. In such case use -R option of setarch
|
||
command:
|
||
|
||
setarch -R i386 ./temacs --batch --load loadup [dump|bootstrap]
|
||
|
||
or
|
||
|
||
setarch -R i386 make bootstrap
|
||
|
||
*** Fatal signal in the command temacs -l loadup inc dump.
|
||
|
||
This command is the final stage of building Emacs. It is run by the
|
||
Makefile in the src subdirectory, or by build.com on VMS.
|
||
|
||
It has been known to get fatal errors due to insufficient swapping
|
||
space available on the machine.
|
||
|
||
On 68000s, it has also happened because of bugs in the
|
||
subroutine `alloca'. Verify that `alloca' works right, even
|
||
for large blocks (many pages).
|
||
|
||
*** test-distrib says that the distribution has been clobbered.
|
||
*** or, temacs prints "Command key out of range 0-127".
|
||
*** or, temacs runs and dumps emacs, but emacs totally fails to work.
|
||
*** or, temacs gets errors dumping emacs.
|
||
|
||
This can be because the .elc files have been garbled. Do not be
|
||
fooled by the fact that most of a .elc file is text: these are
|
||
binary files and can contain all 256 byte values.
|
||
|
||
In particular `shar' cannot be used for transmitting GNU Emacs.
|
||
It typically truncates "lines". What appear to be "lines" in
|
||
a binary file can of course be of any length. Even once `shar'
|
||
itself is made to work correctly, `sh' discards null characters
|
||
when unpacking the shell archive.
|
||
|
||
I have also seen character \177 changed into \377. I do not know
|
||
what transfer means caused this problem. Various network
|
||
file transfer programs are suspected of clobbering the high bit.
|
||
|
||
If you have a copy of Emacs that has been damaged in its
|
||
nonprinting characters, you can fix them:
|
||
|
||
1) Record the names of all the .elc files.
|
||
2) Delete all the .elc files.
|
||
3) Recompile alloc.c with a value of PURESIZE twice as large.
|
||
(See puresize.h.) You might as well save the old alloc.o.
|
||
4) Remake emacs. It should work now.
|
||
5) Running emacs, do Meta-x byte-compile-file repeatedly
|
||
to recreate all the .elc files that used to exist.
|
||
You may need to increase the value of the variable
|
||
max-lisp-eval-depth to succeed in running the compiler interpreted
|
||
on certain .el files. 400 was sufficient as of last report.
|
||
6) Reinstall the old alloc.o (undoing changes to alloc.c if any)
|
||
and remake temacs.
|
||
7) Remake emacs. It should work now, with valid .elc files.
|
||
|
||
*** temacs prints "Pure Lisp storage exhausted".
|
||
|
||
This means that the Lisp code loaded from the .elc and .el
|
||
files during temacs -l loadup inc dump took up more
|
||
space than was allocated.
|
||
|
||
This could be caused by
|
||
1) adding code to the preloaded Lisp files
|
||
2) adding more preloaded files in loadup.el
|
||
3) having a site-init.el or site-load.el which loads files.
|
||
Note that ANY site-init.el or site-load.el is nonstandard;
|
||
if you have received Emacs from some other site
|
||
and it contains a site-init.el or site-load.el file, consider
|
||
deleting that file.
|
||
4) getting the wrong .el or .elc files
|
||
(not from the directory you expected).
|
||
5) deleting some .elc files that are supposed to exist.
|
||
This would cause the source files (.el files) to be
|
||
loaded instead. They take up more room, so you lose.
|
||
6) a bug in the Emacs distribution which underestimates
|
||
the space required.
|
||
|
||
If the need for more space is legitimate, change the definition
|
||
of PURESIZE in puresize.h.
|
||
|
||
But in some of the cases listed above, this problem is a consequence
|
||
of something else that is wrong. Be sure to check and fix the real
|
||
problem.
|
||
|
||
*** Linux: Emacs crashes when dumping itself on Mac PPC running Yellow Dog GNU/Linux.
|
||
|
||
The crashes happen inside the function Fmake_symbol; here's a typical
|
||
C backtrace printed by GDB:
|
||
|
||
0x190c0c0 in Fmake_symbol ()
|
||
(gdb) where
|
||
#0 0x190c0c0 in Fmake_symbol ()
|
||
#1 0x1942ca4 in init_obarray ()
|
||
#2 0x18b3500 in main ()
|
||
#3 0x114371c in __libc_start_main (argc=5, argv=0x7ffff5b4, envp=0x7ffff5cc,
|
||
|
||
This could happen because GCC version 2.95 and later changed the base
|
||
of the load address to 0x10000000. Emacs needs to be told about this,
|
||
but we currently cannot do that automatically, because that breaks
|
||
other versions of GNU/Linux on the MacPPC. Until we find a way to
|
||
distinguish between the Yellow Dog and the other varieties of
|
||
GNU/Linux systems on the PPC, you will have to manually uncomment the
|
||
following section near the end of the file src/m/macppc.h in the Emacs
|
||
distribution:
|
||
|
||
#if 0 /* This breaks things on PPC GNU/Linux except for Yellowdog,
|
||
even with identical GCC, as, ld. Let's take it out until we
|
||
know what's really going on here. */
|
||
/* GCC 2.95 and newer on GNU/Linux PPC changed the load address to
|
||
0x10000000. */
|
||
#if defined __linux__
|
||
#if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 95)
|
||
#define DATA_SEG_BITS 0x10000000
|
||
#endif
|
||
#endif
|
||
#endif /* 0 */
|
||
|
||
Remove the "#if 0" and "#endif" directives which surround this, save
|
||
the file, and then reconfigure and rebuild Emacs. The dumping process
|
||
should now succeed.
|
||
|
||
** Installation
|
||
|
||
*** Installing Emacs gets an error running `install-info'.
|
||
|
||
You need to install a recent version of Texinfo; that package
|
||
supplies the `install-info' command.
|
||
|
||
** First execution
|
||
|
||
*** Emacs binary is not in executable format, and cannot be run.
|
||
|
||
This was reported to happen when Emacs is built in a directory mounted
|
||
via NFS, for some combinations of NFS client and NFS server.
|
||
Usually, the file `emacs' produced in these cases is full of
|
||
binary null characters, and the `file' utility says:
|
||
|
||
emacs: ASCII text, with no line terminators
|
||
|
||
We don't know what exactly causes this failure. A work-around is to
|
||
build Emacs in a directory on a local disk.
|
||
|
||
*** The dumped Emacs crashes when run, trying to write pure data.
|
||
|
||
Two causes have been seen for such problems.
|
||
|
||
1) On a system where getpagesize is not a system call, it is defined
|
||
as a macro. If the definition (in both unexec.c and malloc.c) is wrong,
|
||
it can cause problems like this. You might be able to find the correct
|
||
value in the man page for a.out (5).
|
||
|
||
2) Some systems allocate variables declared static among the
|
||
initialized variables. Emacs makes all initialized variables in most
|
||
of its files pure after dumping, but the variables declared static and
|
||
not initialized are not supposed to be pure. On these systems you
|
||
may need to add "#define static" to the m- or the s- file.
|
||
|
||
* Emacs 19 problems
|
||
|
||
** Error messages `Wrong number of arguments: #<subr where-is-internal>, 5'.
|
||
|
||
This typically results from having the powerkey library loaded.
|
||
Powerkey was designed for Emacs 19.22. It is obsolete now because
|
||
Emacs 19 now has this feature built in; and powerkey also calls
|
||
where-is-internal in an obsolete way.
|
||
|
||
So the fix is to arrange not to load powerkey.
|
||
|
||
* Runtime problems on legacy systems
|
||
|
||
This section covers bugs reported on very old hardware or software.
|
||
If you are using hardware and an operating system shipped after 2000,
|
||
it is unlikely you will see any of these.
|
||
|
||
** Ancient operating systems
|
||
|
||
AIX 4.2 was end-of-lifed on Dec 31st, 1999.
|
||
|
||
*** AIX: You get this compiler error message:
|
||
|
||
Processing include file ./XMenuInt.h
|
||
1501-106: (S) Include file X11/Xlib.h not found.
|
||
|
||
This means your system was installed with only the X11 runtime i.d
|
||
libraries. You have to find your sipo (bootable tape) and install
|
||
X11Dev... with smit.
|
||
|
||
(This report must be ancient. Bootable tapes are long dead.)
|
||
|
||
*** AIX 3.2.4: Releasing Ctrl/Act key has no effect, if Shift is down.
|
||
|
||
Due to a feature of AIX, pressing or releasing the Ctrl/Act key is
|
||
ignored when the Shift, Alt or AltGr keys are held down. This can
|
||
lead to the keyboard being "control-locked"--ordinary letters are
|
||
treated as control characters.
|
||
|
||
You can get out of this "control-locked" state by pressing and
|
||
releasing Ctrl/Act while not pressing or holding any other keys.
|
||
|
||
*** AIX 3.2.5: You get this message when running Emacs:
|
||
|
||
Could not load program emacs
|
||
Symbol smtcheckinit in csh is undefined
|
||
Error was: Exec format error
|
||
|
||
or this one:
|
||
|
||
Could not load program .emacs
|
||
Symbol _system_con in csh is undefined
|
||
Symbol _fp_trapsta in csh is undefined
|
||
Error was: Exec format error
|
||
|
||
These can happen when you try to run on AIX 3.2.5 a program that was
|
||
compiled with 3.2.4. The fix is to recompile.
|
||
|
||
*** AIX 4.2: Emacs gets a segmentation fault at startup.
|
||
|
||
If you are using IBM's xlc compiler, compile emacs.c
|
||
without optimization; that should avoid the problem.
|
||
|
||
*** ISC Unix
|
||
|
||
**** ISC: display-time causes kernel problems on ISC systems.
|
||
|
||
Under Interactive Unix versions 3.0.1 and 4.0 (and probably other
|
||
versions), display-time causes the loss of large numbers of STREVENT
|
||
cells. Eventually the kernel's supply of these cells is exhausted.
|
||
This makes emacs and the whole system run slow, and can make other
|
||
processes die, in particular pcnfsd.
|
||
|
||
Other emacs functions that communicate with remote processes may have
|
||
the same problem. Display-time seems to be far the worst.
|
||
|
||
The only known fix: Don't run display-time.
|
||
|
||
*** SunOS
|
||
|
||
SunOS 4.1.4 stopped shipping on Sep 30 1998.
|
||
|
||
**** SunOS: You get linker errors
|
||
ld: Undefined symbol
|
||
_get_wmShellWidgetClass
|
||
_get_applicationShellWidgetClass
|
||
|
||
**** Sun 4.0.x: M-x shell persistently reports "Process shell exited abnormally with code 1".
|
||
|
||
This happened on Suns as a result of what is said to be a bug in Sunos
|
||
version 4.0.x. The only fix was to reboot the machine.
|
||
|
||
**** SunOS4.1.1 and SunOS4.1.3: Mail is lost when sent to local aliases.
|
||
|
||
Many emacs mail user agents (VM and rmail, for instance) use the
|
||
sendmail.el library. This library can arrange for mail to be
|
||
delivered by passing messages to the /usr/lib/sendmail (usually)
|
||
program . In doing so, it passes the '-t' flag to sendmail, which
|
||
means that the name of the recipient of the message is not on the
|
||
command line and, therefore, that sendmail must parse the message to
|
||
obtain the destination address.
|
||
|
||
There is a bug in the SunOS4.1.1 and SunOS4.1.3 versions of sendmail.
|
||
In short, when given the -t flag, the SunOS sendmail won't recognize
|
||
non-local (i.e. NIS) aliases. It has been reported that the Solaris
|
||
2.x versions of sendmail do not have this bug. For those using SunOS
|
||
4.1, the best fix is to install sendmail V8 or IDA sendmail (which
|
||
have other advantages over the regular sendmail as well). At the time
|
||
of this writing, these official versions are available:
|
||
|
||
Sendmail V8 on ftp.cs.berkeley.edu in /ucb/sendmail:
|
||
sendmail.8.6.9.base.tar.Z (the base system source & documentation)
|
||
sendmail.8.6.9.cf.tar.Z (configuration files)
|
||
sendmail.8.6.9.misc.tar.Z (miscellaneous support programs)
|
||
sendmail.8.6.9.xdoc.tar.Z (extended documentation, with postscript)
|
||
|
||
IDA sendmail on vixen.cso.uiuc.edu in /pub:
|
||
sendmail-5.67b+IDA-1.5.tar.gz
|
||
|
||
**** Sunos 4: You get the error ld: Undefined symbol __lib_version.
|
||
|
||
This is the result of using cc or gcc with the shared library meant
|
||
for acc (the Sunpro compiler). Check your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and delete
|
||
/usr/lang/SC2.0.1 or some similar directory.
|
||
|
||
**** SunOS 4.1.3: Emacs unpredictably crashes in _yp_dobind_soft.
|
||
|
||
This happens if you configure Emacs specifying just `sparc-sun-sunos4'
|
||
on a system that is version 4.1.3. You must specify the precise
|
||
version number (or let configure figure out the configuration, which
|
||
it can do perfectly well for SunOS).
|
||
|
||
**** Sunos 4.1.3: Emacs gets hung shortly after startup.
|
||
|
||
We think this is due to a bug in Sunos. The word is that
|
||
one of these Sunos patches fixes the bug:
|
||
|
||
100075-11 100224-06 100347-03 100482-05 100557-02 100623-03 100804-03 101080-01
|
||
100103-12 100249-09 100496-02 100564-07 100630-02 100891-10 101134-01
|
||
100170-09 100296-04 100377-09 100507-04 100567-04 100650-02 101070-01 101145-01
|
||
100173-10 100305-15 100383-06 100513-04 100570-05 100689-01 101071-03 101200-02
|
||
100178-09 100338-05 100421-03 100536-02 100584-05 100784-01 101072-01 101207-01
|
||
|
||
We don't know which of these patches really matter. If you find out
|
||
which ones, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
|
||
|
||
**** SunOS 4: Emacs processes keep going after you kill the X server
|
||
(or log out, if you logged in using X).
|
||
|
||
Someone reported that recompiling with GCC 2.7.0 fixed this problem.
|
||
|
||
The fix to this is to install patch 100573 for OpenWindows 3.0
|
||
or link libXmu statically.
|
||
|
||
**** Sunos 5.3: Subprocesses remain, hanging but not zombies.
|
||
|
||
A bug in Sunos 5.3 causes Emacs subprocesses to remain after Emacs
|
||
exits. Sun patch # 101415-02 is part of the fix for this, but it only
|
||
applies to ptys, and doesn't fix the problem with subprocesses
|
||
communicating through pipes.
|
||
|
||
*** Apollo Domain
|
||
|
||
**** Shell mode ignores interrupts on Apollo Domain.
|
||
|
||
You may find that M-x shell prints the following message:
|
||
|
||
Warning: no access to tty; thus no job control in this shell...
|
||
|
||
This can happen if there are not enough ptys on your system.
|
||
Here is how to make more of them.
|
||
|
||
% cd /dev
|
||
% ls pty*
|
||
# shows how many pty's you have. I had 8, named pty0 to pty7)
|
||
% /etc/crpty 8
|
||
# creates eight new pty's
|
||
|
||
*** Irix
|
||
|
||
*** Irix 6.2: No visible display on mips-sgi-irix6.2 when compiling with GCC 2.8.1.
|
||
|
||
This problem went away after installing the latest IRIX patches
|
||
as of 8 Dec 1998.
|
||
|
||
The same problem has been reported on Irix 6.3.
|
||
|
||
*** Irix 6.3: substituting environment variables in file names
|
||
in the minibuffer gives peculiar error messages such as
|
||
|
||
Substituting nonexistent environment variable ""
|
||
|
||
This is not an Emacs bug; it is caused by something in SGI patch
|
||
003082 August 11, 1998.
|
||
|
||
*** OPENSTEP
|
||
|
||
**** OPENSTEP 4.2: Compiling syntax.c with gcc 2.7.2.1 fails.
|
||
|
||
The compiler was reported to crash while compiling syntax.c with the
|
||
following message:
|
||
|
||
cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1obj got fatal signal 11
|
||
|
||
To work around this, replace the macros UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD,
|
||
INC_BOTH, and INC_FROM with functions. To this end, first define 3
|
||
functions, one each for every macro. Here's an example:
|
||
|
||
static int update_syntax_table_forward(int from)
|
||
{
|
||
return(UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD(from));
|
||
}/*update_syntax_table_forward*/
|
||
|
||
Then replace all references to UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD in syntax.c
|
||
with a call to the function update_syntax_table_forward.
|
||
|
||
*** Solaris 2.x
|
||
|
||
**** Strange results from format %d in a few cases, on a Sun.
|
||
|
||
Sun compiler version SC3.0 has been found to miscompile part of
|
||
editfns.c. The workaround is to compile with some other compiler such
|
||
as GCC.
|
||
|
||
**** On Solaris, Emacs dumps core if lisp-complete-symbol is called.
|
||
|
||
If you compile Emacs with the -fast or -xO4 option with version 3.0.2
|
||
of the Sun C compiler, Emacs dumps core when lisp-complete-symbol is
|
||
called. The problem does not happen if you compile with GCC.
|
||
|
||
**** On Solaris, Emacs crashes if you use (display-time).
|
||
|
||
This can happen if you configure Emacs without specifying the precise
|
||
version of Solaris that you are using.
|
||
|
||
**** Solaris 2.3 and 2.4: Unpredictable segmentation faults.
|
||
|
||
A user reported that this happened in 19.29 when it was compiled with
|
||
the Sun compiler, but not when he recompiled with GCC 2.7.0.
|
||
|
||
We do not know whether something in Emacs is partly to blame for this.
|
||
|
||
**** Solaris 2.4: Emacs dumps core on startup.
|
||
|
||
Bill Sebok says that the cause of this is Solaris 2.4 vendor patch
|
||
102303-05, which extends the Solaris linker to deal with the Solaris
|
||
Common Desktop Environment's linking needs. You can fix the problem
|
||
by removing this patch and installing patch 102049-02 instead.
|
||
However, that linker version won't work with CDE.
|
||
|
||
Solaris 2.5 comes with a linker that has this bug. It is reported that if
|
||
you install all the latest patches (as of June 1996), the bug is fixed.
|
||
We suspect the crucial patch is one of these, but we don't know
|
||
for certain.
|
||
|
||
103093-03: [README] SunOS 5.5: kernel patch (2140557 bytes)
|
||
102832-01: [README] OpenWindows 3.5: Xview Jumbo Patch (4181613 bytes)
|
||
103242-04: [README] SunOS 5.5: linker patch (595363 bytes)
|
||
|
||
(One user reports that the bug was fixed by those patches together
|
||
with patches 102980-04, 103279-01, 103300-02, and 103468-01.)
|
||
|
||
If you can determine which patch does fix the bug, please tell
|
||
bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
|
||
|
||
Meanwhile, the GNU linker links Emacs properly on both Solaris 2.4 and
|
||
Solaris 2.5.
|
||
|
||
**** Solaris 2.4: Dired hangs and C-g does not work. Or Emacs hangs
|
||
forever waiting for termination of a subprocess that is a zombie.
|
||
|
||
casper@fwi.uva.nl says the problem is in X11R6. Rebuild libX11.so
|
||
after changing the file xc/config/cf/sunLib.tmpl. Change the lines
|
||
|
||
#if ThreadedX
|
||
#define SharedX11Reqs -lthread
|
||
#endif
|
||
|
||
to:
|
||
|
||
#if OSMinorVersion < 4
|
||
#if ThreadedX
|
||
#define SharedX11Reqs -lthread
|
||
#endif
|
||
#endif
|
||
|
||
Be sure also to edit x/config/cf/sun.cf so that OSMinorVersion is 4
|
||
(as it should be for Solaris 2.4). The file has three definitions for
|
||
OSMinorVersion: the first is for x86, the second for SPARC under
|
||
Solaris, and the third for SunOS 4. Make sure to update the
|
||
definition for your type of machine and system.
|
||
|
||
Then do `make Everything' in the top directory of X11R6, to rebuild
|
||
the makefiles and rebuild X. The X built this way work only on
|
||
Solaris 2.4, not on 2.3.
|
||
|
||
For multithreaded X to work it is necessary to install patch
|
||
101925-02 to fix problems in header files [2.4]. You need
|
||
to reinstall gcc or re-run just-fixinc after installing that
|
||
patch.
|
||
|
||
However, Frank Rust <frust@iti.cs.tu-bs.de> used a simpler solution:
|
||
he changed
|
||
#define ThreadedX YES
|
||
to
|
||
#define ThreadedX NO
|
||
in sun.cf and did `make World' to rebuild X11R6. Removing all
|
||
`-DXTHREAD*' flags and `-lthread' entries from lib/X11/Makefile and
|
||
typing 'make install' in that directory also seemed to work.
|
||
|
||
**** Solaris 2.x: GCC complains "64 bit integer types not supported".
|
||
|
||
This suggests that GCC is not installed correctly. Most likely you
|
||
are using GCC 2.7.2.3 (or earlier) on Solaris 2.6 (or later); this
|
||
does not work without patching. To run GCC 2.7.2.3 on Solaris 2.6 or
|
||
later, you must patch fixinc.svr4 and reinstall GCC from scratch as
|
||
described in the Solaris FAQ
|
||
<http://www.wins.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html>. A better fix is
|
||
to upgrade to GCC 2.8.1 or later.
|
||
|
||
**** Solaris 2.7: Building Emacs with WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15
|
||
C 5.0 failed, apparently with non-default CFLAGS, most probably due to
|
||
compiler bugs. Using Sun Solaris 2.7 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C
|
||
release was reported to work without problems. It worked OK on
|
||
another system with Solaris 8 using apparently the same 5.0 compiler
|
||
and the default CFLAGS.
|
||
|
||
**** Solaris 2.x: Emacs dumps core when built with Motif.
|
||
|
||
The Solaris Motif libraries are buggy, at least up through Solaris 2.5.1.
|
||
Install the current Motif runtime library patch appropriate for your host.
|
||
(Make sure the patch is current; some older patch versions still have the bug.)
|
||
You should install the other patches recommended by Sun for your host, too.
|
||
You can obtain Sun patches from ftp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub/patches/;
|
||
look for files with names ending in `.PatchReport' to see which patches
|
||
are currently recommended for your host.
|
||
|
||
On Solaris 2.6, Emacs is said to work with Motif when Solaris patch
|
||
105284-12 is installed, but fail when 105284-15 is installed.
|
||
105284-18 might fix it again.
|
||
|
||
**** Solaris 2.6 and 7: the Compose key does not work.
|
||
|
||
This is a bug in Motif in Solaris. Supposedly it has been fixed for
|
||
the next major release of Solaris. However, if someone with Sun
|
||
support complains to Sun about the bug, they may release a patch.
|
||
If you do this, mention Sun bug #4188711.
|
||
|
||
One workaround is to use a locale that allows non-ASCII characters.
|
||
For example, before invoking emacs, set the LC_ALL environment
|
||
variable to "en_US" (American English). The directory /usr/lib/locale
|
||
lists the supported locales; any locale other than "C" or "POSIX"
|
||
should do.
|
||
|
||
pen@lysator.liu.se says (Feb 1998) that the Compose key does work
|
||
if you link with the MIT X11 libraries instead of the Solaris X11
|
||
libraries.
|
||
|
||
*** HP/UX versions before 11.0
|
||
|
||
HP/UX 9 was end-of-lifed in December 1998.
|
||
HP/UX 10 was end-of-lifed in May 1999.
|
||
|
||
**** HP/UX 9: Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV after you delete a frame.
|
||
|
||
We think this is due to a bug in the X libraries provided by HP. With
|
||
the alternative X libraries in /usr/contrib/mitX11R5/lib, the problem
|
||
does not happen.
|
||
|
||
*** HP/UX 10: Large file support is disabled.
|
||
|
||
See the comments in src/s/hpux10.h.
|
||
|
||
*** HP/UX: Emacs is slow using X11R5.
|
||
|
||
This happens if you use the MIT versions of the X libraries--it
|
||
doesn't run as fast as HP's version. People sometimes use the version
|
||
because they see the HP version doesn't have the libraries libXaw.a,
|
||
libXmu.a, libXext.a and others. HP/UX normally doesn't come with
|
||
those libraries installed. To get good performance, you need to
|
||
install them and rebuild Emacs.
|
||
|
||
*** Ultrix and Digital Unix
|
||
|
||
**** Ultrix 4.2: `make install' fails on install-doc with `Error 141'.
|
||
|
||
This happens on Ultrix 4.2 due to failure of a pipeline of tar
|
||
commands. We don't know why they fail, but the bug seems not to be in
|
||
Emacs. The workaround is to run the shell command in install-doc by
|
||
hand.
|
||
|
||
**** Digital Unix 4.0: Garbled display on non-X terminals when Emacs runs.
|
||
|
||
So far it appears that running `tset' triggers this problem (when TERM
|
||
is vt100, at least). If you do not run `tset', then Emacs displays
|
||
properly. If someone can tell us precisely which effect of running
|
||
`tset' actually causes the problem, we may be able to implement a fix
|
||
in Emacs.
|
||
|
||
**** Ultrix: `expand-file-name' fails to work on any but the machine you dumped Emacs on.
|
||
|
||
On Ultrix, if you use any of the functions which look up information
|
||
in the passwd database before dumping Emacs (say, by using
|
||
expand-file-name in site-init.el), then those functions will not work
|
||
in the dumped Emacs on any host but the one Emacs was dumped on.
|
||
|
||
The solution? Don't use expand-file-name in site-init.el, or in
|
||
anything it loads. Yuck - some solution.
|
||
|
||
I'm not sure why this happens; if you can find out exactly what is
|
||
going on, and perhaps find a fix or a workaround, please let us know.
|
||
Perhaps the YP functions cache some information, the cache is included
|
||
in the dumped Emacs, and is then inaccurate on any other host.
|
||
|
||
*** SVr4
|
||
|
||
**** SVr4: On some variants of SVR4, Emacs does not work at all with X.
|
||
|
||
Try defining BROKEN_FIONREAD in your config.h file. If this solves
|
||
the problem, please send a bug report to tell us this is needed; be
|
||
sure to say exactly what type of machine and system you are using.
|
||
|
||
**** SVr4: After running emacs once, subsequent invocations crash.
|
||
|
||
Some versions of SVR4 have a serious bug in the implementation of the
|
||
mmap () system call in the kernel; this causes emacs to run correctly
|
||
the first time, and then crash when run a second time.
|
||
|
||
Contact your vendor and ask for the mmap bug fix; in the mean time,
|
||
you may be able to work around the problem by adding a line to your
|
||
operating system description file (whose name is reported by the
|
||
configure script) that reads:
|
||
#define SYSTEM_MALLOC
|
||
This makes Emacs use memory less efficiently, but seems to work around
|
||
the kernel bug.
|
||
|
||
*** Irix 5 and earlier
|
||
|
||
Exactly when Irix-5 end-of-lifed is obscure. But since Irix 6.0
|
||
shipped in 1994, it has been some years.
|
||
|
||
**** Irix 5.2: unexelfsgi.c can't find cmplrs/stsupport.h.
|
||
|
||
The file cmplrs/stsupport.h was included in the wrong file set in the
|
||
Irix 5.2 distribution. You can find it in the optional fileset
|
||
compiler_dev, or copy it from some other Irix 5.2 system. A kludgy
|
||
workaround is to change unexelfsgi.c to include sym.h instead of
|
||
syms.h.
|
||
|
||
**** Irix 5.3: "out of virtual swap space".
|
||
|
||
This message occurs when the system runs out of swap space due to too
|
||
many large programs running. The solution is either to provide more
|
||
swap space or to reduce the number of large programs being run. You
|
||
can check the current status of the swap space by executing the
|
||
command `swap -l'.
|
||
|
||
You can increase swap space by changing the file /etc/fstab. Adding a
|
||
line like this:
|
||
|
||
/usr/swap/swap.more swap swap pri=3 0 0
|
||
|
||
where /usr/swap/swap.more is a file previously created (for instance
|
||
by using /etc/mkfile), will increase the swap space by the size of
|
||
that file. Execute `swap -m' or reboot the machine to activate the
|
||
new swap area. See the manpages for `swap' and `fstab' for further
|
||
information.
|
||
|
||
The objectserver daemon can use up lots of memory because it can be
|
||
swamped with NIS information. It collects information about all users
|
||
on the network that can log on to the host.
|
||
|
||
If you want to disable the objectserver completely, you can execute
|
||
the command `chkconfig objectserver off' and reboot. That may disable
|
||
some of the window system functionality, such as responding CDROM
|
||
icons.
|
||
|
||
You can also remove NIS support from the objectserver. The SGI `admin'
|
||
FAQ has a detailed description on how to do that; see question 35
|
||
("Why isn't the objectserver working?"). The admin FAQ can be found at
|
||
ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/faq/.
|
||
|
||
**** Irix 5.3: Emacs crashes in utmpname.
|
||
|
||
This problem is fixed in Patch 3175 for Irix 5.3.
|
||
It is also fixed in Irix versions 6.2 and up.
|
||
|
||
**** Irix 6.0: Make tries (and fails) to build a program named unexelfsgi.
|
||
|
||
A compiler bug inserts spaces into the string "unexelfsgi . o"
|
||
in src/Makefile. Edit src/Makefile, after configure is run,
|
||
find that string, and take out the spaces.
|
||
|
||
Compiler fixes in Irix 6.0.1 should eliminate this problem.
|
||
|
||
*** SCO Unix and UnixWare
|
||
|
||
**** SCO 3.2v4: Unusable default font.
|
||
|
||
The Open Desktop environment comes with default X resource settings
|
||
that tell Emacs to use a variable-width font. Emacs cannot use such
|
||
fonts, so it does not work.
|
||
|
||
This is caused by the file /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/ScoTerm, which is
|
||
the application-specific resource file for the `scoterm' terminal
|
||
emulator program. It contains several extremely general X resources
|
||
that affect other programs besides `scoterm'. In particular, these
|
||
resources affect Emacs also:
|
||
|
||
*Font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--12-*-p-*
|
||
*Background: scoBackground
|
||
*Foreground: scoForeground
|
||
|
||
The best solution is to create an application-specific resource file for
|
||
Emacs, /usr/lib/X11/sco/startup/Emacs, with the following contents:
|
||
|
||
Emacs*Font: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
|
||
Emacs*Background: white
|
||
Emacs*Foreground: black
|
||
|
||
(These settings mimic the Emacs defaults, but you can change them to
|
||
suit your needs.) This resource file is only read when the X server
|
||
starts up, so you should restart it by logging out of the Open Desktop
|
||
environment or by running `scologin stop; scologin start` from the shell
|
||
as root. Alternatively, you can put these settings in the
|
||
/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs resource file and simply restart Emacs,
|
||
but then they will not affect remote invocations of Emacs that use the
|
||
Open Desktop display.
|
||
|
||
These resource files are not normally shared across a network of SCO
|
||
machines; you must create the file on each machine individually.
|
||
|
||
**** SCO 4.2.0: Regular expressions matching bugs on SCO systems.
|
||
|
||
On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled
|
||
with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C
|
||
version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93; Quick
|
||
C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile with
|
||
GCC.
|
||
|
||
**** UnixWare 2.1: Error 12 (virtual memory exceeded) when dumping Emacs.
|
||
|
||
Paul Abrahams (abrahams@acm.org) reports that with the installed
|
||
virtual memory settings for UnixWare 2.1.2, an Error 12 occurs during
|
||
the "make" that builds Emacs, when running temacs to dump emacs. That
|
||
error indicates that the per-process virtual memory limit has been
|
||
exceeded. The default limit is probably 32MB. Raising the virtual
|
||
memory limit to 40MB should make it possible to finish building Emacs.
|
||
|
||
You can do this with the command `ulimit' (sh) or `limit' (csh).
|
||
But you have to be root to do it.
|
||
|
||
According to Martin Sohnius, you can also retune this in the kernel:
|
||
|
||
# /etc/conf/bin/idtune SDATLIM 33554432 ## soft data size limit
|
||
# /etc/conf/bin/idtune HDATLIM 33554432 ## hard "
|
||
# /etc/conf/bin/idtune SVMMSIZE unlimited ## soft process size limit
|
||
# /etc/conf/bin/idtune HVMMSIZE unlimited ## hard "
|
||
# /etc/conf/bin/idbuild -B
|
||
|
||
(He recommends you not change the stack limit, though.)
|
||
These changes take effect when you reboot.
|
||
|
||
*** Linux 1.x
|
||
|
||
**** Linux 1.0-1.04: Typing C-c C-c in Shell mode kills your X server.
|
||
|
||
This happens with Linux kernel 1.0 thru 1.04, approximately. The workaround is
|
||
to define SIGNALS_VIA_CHARACTERS in config.h and recompile Emacs.
|
||
Newer Linux kernel versions don't have this problem.
|
||
|
||
**** Linux 1.3: Output from subprocess (such as man or diff) is randomly
|
||
truncated on GNU/Linux systems.
|
||
|
||
This is due to a kernel bug which seems to be fixed in Linux version
|
||
1.3.75.
|
||
|
||
** Windows 3.1, 95, 98, and ME
|
||
|
||
*** MS-Windows NT/95: Problems running Perl under Emacs
|
||
|
||
`perl -de 0' just hangs when executed in an Emacs subshell.
|
||
The fault lies with Perl (indirectly with Windows NT/95).
|
||
|
||
The problem is that the Perl debugger explicitly opens a connection to
|
||
"CON", which is the DOS/NT equivalent of "/dev/tty", for interacting
|
||
with the user.
|
||
|
||
On Unix, this is okay, because Emacs (or the shell?) creates a
|
||
pseudo-tty so that /dev/tty is really the pipe Emacs is using to
|
||
communicate with the subprocess.
|
||
|
||
On NT, this fails because CON always refers to the handle for the
|
||
relevant console (approximately equivalent to a tty), and cannot be
|
||
redirected to refer to the pipe Emacs assigned to the subprocess as
|
||
stdin.
|
||
|
||
A workaround is to modify perldb.pl to use STDIN/STDOUT instead of CON.
|
||
|
||
For Perl 4:
|
||
|
||
*** PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL.orig Wed May 26 08:24:18 1993
|
||
--- PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL Mon Jul 01 15:28:16 1996
|
||
***************
|
||
*** 68,74 ****
|
||
$rcfile=".perldb";
|
||
}
|
||
else {
|
||
! $console = "con";
|
||
$rcfile="perldb.ini";
|
||
}
|
||
|
||
--- 68,74 ----
|
||
$rcfile=".perldb";
|
||
}
|
||
else {
|
||
! $console = "";
|
||
$rcfile="perldb.ini";
|
||
}
|
||
|
||
|
||
For Perl 5:
|
||
*** perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl.orig Sun Jun 04 21:13:40 1995
|
||
--- perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl Mon Jul 01 17:00:08 1996
|
||
***************
|
||
*** 22,28 ****
|
||
$rcfile=".perldb";
|
||
}
|
||
elsif (-e "con") {
|
||
! $console = "con";
|
||
$rcfile="perldb.ini";
|
||
}
|
||
else {
|
||
--- 22,28 ----
|
||
$rcfile=".perldb";
|
||
}
|
||
elsif (-e "con") {
|
||
! $console = "";
|
||
$rcfile="perldb.ini";
|
||
}
|
||
else {
|
||
|
||
*** MS-Windows 95: Alt-f6 does not get through to Emacs.
|
||
|
||
This character seems to be trapped by the kernel in Windows 95.
|
||
You can enter M-f6 by typing ESC f6.
|
||
|
||
*** MS-Windows 95/98/ME: subprocesses do not terminate properly.
|
||
|
||
This is a limitation of the Operating System, and can cause problems
|
||
when shutting down Windows. Ensure that all subprocesses are exited
|
||
cleanly before exiting Emacs. For more details, see the FAQ at
|
||
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/.
|
||
|
||
*** MS-Windows 95/98/ME: crashes when Emacs invokes non-existent programs.
|
||
|
||
When a program you are trying to run is not found on the PATH,
|
||
Windows might respond by crashing or locking up your system. In
|
||
particular, this has been reported when trying to compile a Java
|
||
program in JDEE when javac.exe is installed, but not on the system
|
||
PATH.
|
||
|
||
** MS-DOS
|
||
|
||
*** When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows NT, "config msdos" fails.
|
||
|
||
If the error message is "VDM has been already loaded", this is because
|
||
Windows has a program called `redir.exe' that is incompatible with a
|
||
program by the same name supplied with DJGPP, which is used by
|
||
config.bat. To resolve this, move the DJGPP's `bin' subdirectory to
|
||
the front of your PATH environment variable.
|
||
|
||
*** When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows 95, Make fails for some targets
|
||
like make-docfile.
|
||
|
||
This can happen if long file name support (the setting of environment
|
||
variable LFN) when Emacs distribution was unpacked and during
|
||
compilation are not the same. See the MSDOG section of INSTALL for
|
||
the explanation of how to avoid this problem.
|
||
|
||
*** Emacs compiled with DJGPP complains at startup:
|
||
|
||
"Wrong type of argument: internal-facep, msdos-menu-active-face"
|
||
|
||
This can happen if you define an environment variable `TERM'. Emacs
|
||
on MSDOS uses an internal terminal emulator which is disabled if the
|
||
value of `TERM' is anything but the string "internal". Emacs then
|
||
works as if its terminal were a dumb glass teletype that doesn't
|
||
support faces. To work around this, arrange for `TERM' to be
|
||
undefined when Emacs runs. The best way to do that is to add an
|
||
[emacs] section to the DJGPP.ENV file which defines an empty value for
|
||
`TERM'; this way, only Emacs gets the empty value, while the rest of
|
||
your system works as before.
|
||
|
||
*** MS-DOS: Emacs crashes at startup.
|
||
|
||
Some users report that Emacs 19.29 requires dpmi memory management,
|
||
and crashes on startup if the system does not have it. We don't yet
|
||
know why this happens--perhaps these machines don't have enough real
|
||
memory, or perhaps something is wrong in Emacs or the compiler.
|
||
However, arranging to use dpmi support is a workaround.
|
||
|
||
You can find out if you have a dpmi host by running go32 without
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arguments; it will tell you if it uses dpmi memory. For more
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information about dpmi memory, consult the djgpp FAQ. (djgpp
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is the GNU C compiler as packaged for MSDOS.)
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Compiling Emacs under MSDOS is extremely sensitive for proper memory
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configuration. If you experience problems during compilation, consider
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removing some or all memory resident programs (notably disk caches)
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and make sure that your memory managers are properly configured. See
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the djgpp faq for configuration hints.
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*** Emacs compiled with DJGPP for MS-DOS/MS-Windows cannot access files
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in the directory with the special name `dev' under the root of any
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drive, e.g. `c:/dev'.
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This is an unfortunate side-effect of the support for Unix-style
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device names such as /dev/null in the DJGPP runtime library. A
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work-around is to rename the problem directory to another name.
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*** MS-DOS+DJGPP: Problems on MS-DOG if DJGPP v2.0 is used to compile Emacs.
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There are two DJGPP library bugs which cause problems:
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* Running `shell-command' (or `compile', or `grep') you get
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`Searching for program: permission denied (EACCES), c:/command.com';
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* After you shell to DOS, Ctrl-Break kills Emacs.
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To work around these bugs, you can use two files in the msdos
|
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subdirectory: `is_exec.c' and `sigaction.c'. Compile them and link
|
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them into the Emacs executable `temacs'; then they will replace the
|
||
incorrect library functions.
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||
|
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*** MS-DOS: Emacs compiled for MSDOS cannot find some Lisp files, or other
|
||
run-time support files, when long filename support is enabled.
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|
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Usually, this problem will manifest itself when Emacs exits
|
||
immediately after flashing the startup screen, because it cannot find
|
||
the Lisp files it needs to load at startup. Redirect Emacs stdout
|
||
and stderr to a file to see the error message printed by Emacs.
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||
|
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Another manifestation of this problem is that Emacs is unable to load
|
||
the support for editing program sources in languages such as C and
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||
Lisp.
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|
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This can happen if the Emacs distribution was unzipped without LFN
|
||
support, thus causing long filenames to be truncated to the first 6
|
||
characters and a numeric tail that Windows 95 normally attaches to it.
|
||
You should unzip the files again with a utility that supports long
|
||
filenames (such as djtar from DJGPP or InfoZip's UnZip program
|
||
compiled with DJGPP v2). The MSDOG section of the file INSTALL
|
||
explains this issue in more detail.
|
||
|
||
Another possible reason for such failures is that Emacs compiled for
|
||
MSDOS is used on Windows NT, where long file names are not supported
|
||
by this version of Emacs, but the distribution was unpacked by an
|
||
unzip program that preserved the long file names instead of truncating
|
||
them to DOS 8+3 limits. To be useful on NT, the MSDOS port of Emacs
|
||
must be unzipped by a DOS utility, so that long file names are
|
||
properly truncated.
|
||
|
||
** Archaic window managers and toolkits
|
||
|
||
*** OpenLook: Under OpenLook, the Emacs window disappears when you type M-q.
|
||
|
||
Some versions of the Open Look window manager interpret M-q as a quit
|
||
command for whatever window you are typing at. If you want to use
|
||
Emacs with that window manager, you should try to configure the window
|
||
manager to use some other command. You can disable the
|
||
shortcut keys entirely by adding this line to ~/.OWdefaults:
|
||
|
||
OpenWindows.WindowMenuAccelerators: False
|
||
|
||
**** twm: A position you specified in .Xdefaults is ignored, using twm.
|
||
|
||
twm normally ignores "program-specified" positions.
|
||
You can tell it to obey them with this command in your `.twmrc' file:
|
||
|
||
UsePPosition "on" #allow clients to request a position
|
||
|
||
** Bugs related to old DEC hardware
|
||
|
||
*** The Compose key on a DEC keyboard does not work as Meta key.
|
||
|
||
This shell command should fix it:
|
||
|
||
xmodmap -e 'keycode 0xb1 = Meta_L'
|
||
|
||
*** Keyboard input gets confused after a beep when using a DECserver
|
||
as a concentrator.
|
||
|
||
This problem seems to be a matter of configuring the DECserver to use
|
||
7 bit characters rather than 8 bit characters.
|
||
|
||
* Build problems on legacy systems
|
||
|
||
** BSD/386 1.0: --with-x-toolkit option configures wrong.
|
||
|
||
This problem is due to bugs in the shell in version 1.0 of BSD/386.
|
||
The workaround is to edit the configure file to use some other shell,
|
||
such as bash.
|
||
|
||
** Digital Unix 4.0: Emacs fails to build, giving error message
|
||
Invalid dimension for the charset-ID 160
|
||
|
||
This is due to a bug or an installation problem in GCC 2.8.0.
|
||
Installing a more recent version of GCC fixes the problem.
|
||
|
||
** Digital Unix 4.0: Failure in unexec while dumping emacs.
|
||
|
||
This problem manifests itself as an error message
|
||
|
||
unexec: Bad address, writing data section to ...
|
||
|
||
The user suspects that this happened because his X libraries
|
||
were built for an older system version,
|
||
|
||
./configure --x-includes=/usr/include --x-libraries=/usr/shlib
|
||
|
||
made the problem go away.
|
||
|
||
** Sunos 4.1.1: there are errors compiling sysdep.c.
|
||
|
||
If you get errors such as
|
||
|
||
"sysdep.c", line 2017: undefined structure or union
|
||
"sysdep.c", line 2017: undefined structure or union
|
||
"sysdep.c", line 2019: nodename undefined
|
||
|
||
This can result from defining LD_LIBRARY_PATH. It is very tricky
|
||
to use that environment variable with Emacs. The Emacs configure
|
||
script links many test programs with the system libraries; you must
|
||
make sure that the libraries available to configure are the same
|
||
ones available when you build Emacs.
|
||
|
||
** SunOS 4.1.1: You get this error message from GNU ld:
|
||
|
||
/lib/libc.a(_Q_sub.o): Undefined symbol __Q_get_rp_rd referenced from text segment
|
||
|
||
The problem is in the Sun shared C library, not in GNU ld.
|
||
|
||
The solution is to install Patch-ID# 100267-03 from Sun.
|
||
|
||
** Sunos 4.1: Undefined symbols when linking using --with-x-toolkit.
|
||
|
||
If you get the undefined symbols _atowc _wcslen, _iswprint, _iswspace,
|
||
_iswcntrl, _wcscpy, and _wcsncpy, then you need to add -lXwchar after
|
||
-lXaw in the command that links temacs.
|
||
|
||
This problem seems to arise only when the international language
|
||
extensions to X11R5 are installed.
|
||
|
||
** SunOS: Emacs gets error message from linker on Sun.
|
||
|
||
If the error message says that a symbol such as `f68881_used' or
|
||
`ffpa_used' or `start_float' is undefined, this probably indicates
|
||
that you have compiled some libraries, such as the X libraries,
|
||
with a floating point option other than the default.
|
||
|
||
It's not terribly hard to make this work with small changes in
|
||
crt0.c together with linking with Fcrt1.o, Wcrt1.o or Mcrt1.o.
|
||
However, the easiest approach is to build Xlib with the default
|
||
floating point option: -fsoft.
|
||
|
||
** SunOS: Undefined symbols _dlopen, _dlsym and/or _dlclose.
|
||
|
||
If you see undefined symbols _dlopen, _dlsym, or _dlclose when linking
|
||
with -lX11, compile and link against the file mit/util/misc/dlsym.c in
|
||
the MIT X11R5 distribution. Alternatively, link temacs using shared
|
||
libraries with s/sunos4shr.h. (This doesn't work if you use the X
|
||
toolkit.)
|
||
|
||
If you get the additional error that the linker could not find
|
||
lib_version.o, try extracting it from X11/usr/lib/X11/libvim.a in
|
||
X11R4, then use it in the link.
|
||
|
||
** SunOS4, DGUX 5.4.2: --with-x-toolkit version crashes when used with shared libraries.
|
||
|
||
On some systems, including Sunos 4 and DGUX 5.4.2 and perhaps others,
|
||
unexec doesn't work properly with the shared library for the X
|
||
toolkit. You might be able to work around this by using a nonshared
|
||
libXt.a library. The real fix is to upgrade the various versions of
|
||
unexec and/or ralloc. We think this has been fixed on Sunos 4
|
||
and Solaris in version 19.29.
|
||
|
||
** HPUX 10.20: Emacs crashes during dumping on the HPPA machine.
|
||
|
||
This seems to be due to a GCC bug; it is fixed in GCC 2.8.1.
|
||
|
||
** VMS: Compilation errors on VMS.
|
||
|
||
You will get warnings when compiling on VMS because there are
|
||
variable names longer than 32 (or whatever it is) characters.
|
||
This is not an error. Ignore it.
|
||
|
||
VAX C does not support #if defined(foo). Uses of this construct
|
||
were removed, but some may have crept back in. They must be rewritten.
|
||
|
||
There is a bug in the C compiler which fails to sign extend characters
|
||
in conditional expressions. The bug is:
|
||
char c = -1, d = 1;
|
||
int i;
|
||
|
||
i = d ? c : d;
|
||
The result is i == 255; the fix is to typecast the char in the
|
||
conditional expression as an (int). Known occurrences of such
|
||
constructs in Emacs have been fixed.
|
||
|
||
** Vax C compiler bugs affecting Emacs.
|
||
|
||
You may get one of these problems compiling Emacs:
|
||
|
||
foo.c line nnn: compiler error: no table entry for op STASG
|
||
foo.c: fatal error in /lib/ccom
|
||
|
||
These are due to bugs in the C compiler; the code is valid C.
|
||
Unfortunately, the bugs are unpredictable: the same construct
|
||
may compile properly or trigger one of these bugs, depending
|
||
on what else is in the source file being compiled. Even changes
|
||
in header files that should not affect the file being compiled
|
||
can affect whether the bug happens. In addition, sometimes files
|
||
that compile correctly on one machine get this bug on another machine.
|
||
|
||
As a result, it is hard for me to make sure this bug will not affect
|
||
you. I have attempted to find and alter these constructs, but more
|
||
can always appear. However, I can tell you how to deal with it if it
|
||
should happen. The bug comes from having an indexed reference to an
|
||
array of Lisp_Objects, as an argument in a function call:
|
||
Lisp_Object *args;
|
||
...
|
||
... foo (5, args[i], ...)...
|
||
putting the argument into a temporary variable first, as in
|
||
Lisp_Object *args;
|
||
Lisp_Object tem;
|
||
...
|
||
tem = args[i];
|
||
... foo (r, tem, ...)...
|
||
causes the problem to go away.
|
||
The `contents' field of a Lisp vector is an array of Lisp_Objects,
|
||
so you may see the problem happening with indexed references to that.
|
||
|
||
** 68000 C compiler problems
|
||
|
||
Various 68000 compilers have different problems.
|
||
These are some that have been observed.
|
||
|
||
*** Using value of assignment expression on union type loses.
|
||
This means that x = y = z; or foo (x = z); does not work
|
||
if x is of type Lisp_Object.
|
||
|
||
*** "cannot reclaim" error.
|
||
|
||
This means that an expression is too complicated. You get the correct
|
||
line number in the error message. The code must be rewritten with
|
||
simpler expressions.
|
||
|
||
*** XCONS, XSTRING, etc macros produce incorrect code.
|
||
|
||
If temacs fails to run at all, this may be the cause.
|
||
Compile this test program and look at the assembler code:
|
||
|
||
struct foo { char x; unsigned int y : 24; };
|
||
|
||
lose (arg)
|
||
struct foo arg;
|
||
{
|
||
test ((int *) arg.y);
|
||
}
|
||
|
||
If the code is incorrect, your compiler has this problem.
|
||
In the XCONS, etc., macros in lisp.h you must replace (a).u.val with
|
||
((a).u.val + coercedummy) where coercedummy is declared as int.
|
||
|
||
This problem will not happen if the m-...h file for your type
|
||
of machine defines NO_UNION_TYPE. That is the recommended setting now.
|
||
|
||
*** C compilers lose on returning unions.
|
||
|
||
I hear that some C compilers cannot handle returning a union type.
|
||
Most of the functions in GNU Emacs return type Lisp_Object, which is
|
||
defined as a union on some rare architectures.
|
||
|
||
This problem will not happen if the m-...h file for your type
|
||
of machine defines NO_UNION_TYPE.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Copyright 1987,88,89,93,94,95,96,97,98,1999,2001,2002,2004
|
||
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
|
||
|
||
Copying and redistribution of this file with or without modification
|
||
are permitted without royalty provided this notice is preserved.
|
||
|
||
Local variables:
|
||
mode: outline
|
||
paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$"
|
||
end:
|
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