autosave

[Peter Blicher]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-04-08 on porky.devel.redhat.com
configured using `configure  i386-redhat-linux --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr 
--bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share 
--includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec 
--localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man 
--infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gcc --with-pop --with-sound'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.iso885915
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

When unable to create (or write to?) some autosave dir .emacs.d or below,
retries forever.  This occurred when I was running with a home dir that I
couldn't write to (because I was root on a different machine).  Never had
this problem in versions 20.4 and before.  Since nothing stops the constant
error repeats, it is difficult to check the exact state.

--peter

ignore recent input; this is a different invocation.

Recent input:
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <up> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> M-x 
m a n <return> s u <return> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> <switch-frame> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <switch-frame> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <switch-frame> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <re
port-emacs-bug>

Recent messages:
Reading directory /etc/...done
Fontifying etc... (regexps.......)
Reading directory /etc/...done
Note: file is write protected
Loading man...done
Invoking man su in the background
Please wait: making up the su man page...
su man page made up
Loading tabify...done
Loading emacsbug...done


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A. Peter Blicher        NEC Research Institute
609-951-2716            4 Independence Way
609-951-2488 fax        Princeton, NJ  08540-6634  USA
blicher@research.nj.nec.com