[18765] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.4.19: xemacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jered Floyd)
Fri Feb 9 16:35:41 2001
To: Edward Kogan <ekogan@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: Jered Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
Date: 09 Feb 2001 16:35:38 -0500
In-Reply-To: Edward Kogan's message of "Tue, 06 Feb 2001 13:08:38 -0500"
Message-ID: <s56ofwbo7yt.fsf@vice-grips.mit.edu>
This problem should be fixed now.
--Jered
(for xemacs@mit.edu)
<daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> (Edward Kogan) writes:
> System name: w20-575-72.mit.edu
> Type and version: SPARC/5 8.4.19
> Display type: cgsix
>
> Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
> Window manager: mwm
>
> What were you trying to do?
> Send email from XEmacs
>
> Sequence of actions:
> add xemacs
> xemacs &
> in xemacs:
> M-x mh-rmail
> m (in +inbox buffer)
>
>
> What's wrong:
> Error message:
> Can't find components file "/usr/athena/libexec/components"
>
>
> What should have happened:
> A new mail message window should have appeared
>
> Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> A quick look at the Lisp source code seems to indicate that
> the code is looking for a skeleton message file in
> /usr/athena/libexec/components, which is not there.
> That file is instead located in /usr/athena/etc.
>
>
> Lisp backtrace:
> Signaling: (error "Can't find components file \"/usr/athena/libexec/components\"")
> signal(error ("Can't find components file \"/usr/athena/libexec/components\""))
> cerror("Can't find components file \"/usr/athena/libexec/components\"")
> apply(cerror "Can't find components file \"/usr/athena/libexec/components\"")
> error("Can't find components file \"/usr/athena/libexec/components\"")
> mh-send-sub("" "" "" #<window-configuration 0x2d7d>)
> #<compiled-function (to cc subject) "...(15)" [current-window-configuration config delete-other-windows mh-send-sub to cc subject] 5 ("/mit/xemacs/arch/sun4x_56/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/mh-e/mh-comp.elc" . 14638) (list (mh-read-address "To: ") (mh-read-address "Cc: ") (read-string "Subject: "))>("" "" "")
> call-interactively(mh-send)
