Bug 1083141 - w3m-view-url-with-external-browser fails with "error in process sentinel"
Summary: w3m-view-url-with-external-browser fails with "error in process sentinel"
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: emacs-common-w3m
Version: 20
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Akira TAGOH
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-04-01 14:33 UTC by m.oliver
Modified: 2014-05-01 07:07 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: emacs-common-w3m-1.4.531-0.1.20140421cvs.fc20
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-05-01 07:01:21 UTC
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Description m.oliver 2014-04-01 14:33:56 UTC
Description of problem:
When trying to open a URL from a HTML email displayed with w3m (VM as email client), recently (after updates about 2 months ago?) this fails with error message like "w3m error in process sentinel: synmbol's function definition is void: --post-body--63118"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
emacs-common-w3m-1.4.435-0.5.20110225cvs.fc20

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
Example (similar error messages come up in other contexts as well)
1. Read HTML email with embedded URL in VM (which uses w3m for display)
2. Click middle-mouse on URL
3. Click yes on question "follow untrusted link"

Actual results:
Error message

Expected results:
Firefox will open new tab to browse selected URL

Additional info:
The problem seems to be known and is reported fixed upstream in Version 1.4.483, see
http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/ml/msg11934.html
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=677431

Would an upgrade in Fedora be possible?

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2014-04-21 10:19:45 UTC
emacs-common-w3m-1.4.531-0.1.20140421cvs.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/emacs-common-w3m-1.4.531-0.1.20140421cvs.fc20

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2014-04-21 10:20:26 UTC
emacs-common-w3m-1.4.531-0.1.20140421cvs.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/emacs-common-w3m-1.4.531-0.1.20140421cvs.fc19

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2014-04-22 04:00:12 UTC
Package emacs-common-w3m-1.4.531-0.1.20140421cvs.fc19:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing emacs-common-w3m-1.4.531-0.1.20140421cvs.fc19'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-5452/emacs-common-w3m-1.4.531-0.1.20140421cvs.fc19
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2014-05-01 07:01:21 UTC
emacs-common-w3m-1.4.531-0.1.20140421cvs.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2014-05-01 07:07:03 UTC
emacs-common-w3m-1.4.531-0.1.20140421cvs.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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