Description of problem: Emacs gives an error message when launching and will not read the .emacs file or the filename if you launch it with the command "emacs filename" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): emacs-23.3-7.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Try launching emacs, with or without a .emacs file present 2.Or try launching "emacs filename" with same results as above happening 3. Actual results: Cannot open load file: bmacs error message appears on bottom of window, filename is not open if one was specified, and .emacs file is ignored if it is present. Expected results: No error message should appear. Filename should open if present and .emacs should be implemented if present. Additional info: Xemacs works perfectly, and it transferred the .emacs file over and implemented it properly.
Hello, emacs-23.3-7.fc16.x86_64 works well here. Two ideas: 1) Try launching 'emacs -Q'. Does it show the error message? 2) Try removing emacs and emacs-common packages and installing them again. Does it help? Thanks.
1) emacs -Q removed the error message 2) after removing emacs and emacs-common (and all of their dependent rpm's), I discovered that the offending rpm is: emacs-bigloo-3.7a-1.fc16.noarch Everything works fine so long as emacs-bigloo is not installed.
Thank you. Reassigning to bigloo.
I have presumably the same setup: x86_64 Fedora 16, emacs and emacs-bigloo installed, but I don't see this problem. The bmacs.el file is loaded properly when I start emacs. Can you try reinstalling emacs-bigloo and see if the problem persists? I wonder if that package was damaged somehow; i.e., bmacs.el somehow got deleted.
The problem persists when the emacs-bigloo rpm is installed again. When doing a rpm -q -l on the installed rpm (emacs-bigloo-3.7a-1.fc16.noarch), it is clear that there is no bmacs.el present.
Aha! bmacs.el is not getting byte compiled, so there is no bmacs.elc. Therefore, you only get bmacs.el if you have the emacs-bigloo-el package installed (which I do). OK, now I know how to fix this. Thanks for the information, Ed.
bigloo-3.7a-2.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/bigloo-3.7a-2.fc16
Package bigloo-3.7a-2.fc16: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing bigloo-3.7a-2.fc16' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-16354/bigloo-3.7a-2.fc16 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
Ed, I saw your negative karma and comment. But this update does fix the problem for me, so I don't understand what is going on. Do you see /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bigloo/bmacs.elc after installing the updated emacs-bigloo package?
Ed, I've tried on 3 different computers now. I can reproduce the problem with bigloo-3.7a-1, but I cannot reproduce after installing bigloo-3.7a-2. I'm going to push this update to stable. If you still experience problems, please follow up here so we can determine what else needs to be done.
If you look at Comment 8, you will see that you only said to install the updated bigloo package. Once I installed the updated emacs-bigloo package as well, then everything worked fine.
bigloo-3.7a-2.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.