Package: emacs23 Version: 23.4+1-4 Followup-For: Bug #701944 Hi Sven,
I have discovered then when freshly installing the cat - <<EOF fails even at a shell bash prompt. I am include the strace from strace cat <<EOF >/tmp/strace.log. It is most peculiar because after installing packages and rebooting, the error goes away. So it is returning ENOENT, though that makes no sense. execve("/bin/cat", ["cat"], [/* 35 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x1556000 access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) mmap(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f9bfbb0a000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=111334, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 111334, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f9bfbaee000 close(3) = 0 access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0\300\357\1\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1595408, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 3709016, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7f9bfb563000 mprotect(0x7f9bfb6e3000, 2097152, PROT_NONE) = 0 mmap(0x7f9bfb8e3000, 20480, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x180000) = 0x7f9bfb8e3000 mmap(0x7f9bfb8e8000, 18520, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f9bfb8e8000 close(3) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f9bfbaed000 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f9bfbaec000 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f9bfbaeb000 arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x7f9bfbaec700) = 0 mprotect(0x7f9bfb8e3000, 16384, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x60b000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x7f9bfbb0c000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0x7f9bfbaee000, 111334) = 0 brk(0) = 0x1556000 brk(0x1577000) = 0x1577000 open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1534608, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 1534608, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f9bfb974000 close(3) = 0 fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2091, ...}) = 0 fstat(0, 0x7ffffa82e1a0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(2, "cat: ", 5cat: ) = 5 write(2, "-", 1-) = 1 open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2570, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f9bfbb09000 read(3, "# Locale name alias data base.\n#"..., 4096) = 2570 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x7f9bfbb09000, 4096) = 0 open("/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(2, ": No such file or directory", 27: No such file or directory) = 27 write(2, "\n", 1 ) = 1 close(0) = 0 close(1) = 0 close(2) = 0 exit_group(1) = ? -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages emacs23 depends on: ii emacs23-bin-common 23.4+1-4 ii gconf-service 3.2.5-1+build1 ii libasound2 1.0.25-4 ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2 ii libc6 2.13-38 ii libcairo2 1.12.2-3 ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.8-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-7.1 ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1.1 ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.5-1+build1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1 ii libgif4 4.1.6-10 ii libglib2.0-0 2.33.12+really2.32.4-5 ii libgpm2 1.20.4-6 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-2 ii libice6 2:1.0.8-2 ii libjpeg8 8d-1 ii libm17n-0 1.6.3-2 ii libncurses5 5.9-10 ii libotf0 0.9.12-2 ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1 ii libpng12-0 1.2.49-1 ii librsvg2-2 2.36.1-1 ii libsm6 2:1.2.1-2 ii libtiff4 3.9.6-11 ii libtinfo5 5.9-10 ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1 ii libxft2 2.3.1-1 ii libxpm4 1:3.5.10-1 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.7-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 emacs23 recommends no packages. Versions of packages emacs23 suggests: pn emacs23-common-non-dfsg <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org