Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 221321
XEmacs Advanced Options Menu Nonfunctional
Last modified: 2009-01-09 02:02:57 EST
Description of problem: Latest XEmacs from fc6 extras has a nonfunctional menu: Options -> Advanced -> Emacs which hinders customization and causes XEmacs to backtrace. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xemacs.x86_64 21.5.27-5.fc6 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install (with OUT sources xemacs*-el) xemacs.x86_64 21.5.27-5.fc6 installed xemacs-common.x86_64 21.5.27-5.fc6 installed xemacs-info.x86_64 21.5.27-5.fc6 installed xemacs-packages-base.noarch 20060510-3.fc6 installed xemacs-packages-extra.noarch 20060510-4.fc6 installed xemacs-packages-extra-info.noarch 20060510-4.fc6 installed 2. Run Xemacs 3. Select in menu Options -> Advanced -> Emacs Actual results: Get "No menu" and a lisp backtrace (see Novell Bugzilla) Expected results: Should see a very large list of things to customize (without a backtrace) Additional info: This was reported by the Novell SuSE bugzilla (see URL or reference below). Their suggestion to install the lisp sources (xemacs*-el) causes XEmacs to try to checkout something from CVS and then freeze. Novell has a link to an upstream report to the XEmacs developers, but their message-boards are down so I could not easily investigate further.
Reproduced, unfortunately this looks like something that will take some time to fix. The issue is in xemacs-packages-extra. In the meantime, one workaround is indeed to install xemacs-packages-extra-el and its dependencies. The CVS checkout issue is related but something different, caused by issues in the upstream "build" lisp package. It's not really useful for people not involved with XEmacs development, so it can be removed eg. with (one long command as root): xemacs -batch -vanilla -l package-admin -eval "(package-admin-delete-binary-package 'build \"/usr/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages\")"
Thanks, workaround confirmed: the menu does work now, albeit somewhat slowly as I guess it is using source vs compiled lisp. Thanks for the command to remove the cvs checkout call. I imagine the freeze I reported above was related to network or cvs issues.
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I'm still seeing this in fedora 8. (Bugzilla won't let me update this bug from f6 to f8) From the above discussion, it sounds like you've got a solution in mind. It would be nice to have this fixed in fedora 9... There's some info about this bug on the SUSE bugzilla: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=183805
Changing version from "6" to "8", as per comment #4.
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