Package: emacs23 Version: 23.2+1-7 Severity: normal I fired up `M-x info' for the first time in a long while, but got the error, "Can't find the Info directory node." This problem persists with `emacs -Q'. I've appended a stack trace.
Info-directory-list contains: ("/home/wohler/lib/emacs/info" "/usr/share/info") Both directories exist. Info-default-directory-list contains: ("/usr/local/share/info/" "/usr/local/info/" "/usr/local/gnu/info/" "/usr/local/gnu/lib/info/" "/usr/local/gnu/lib/emacs/info/" "/usr/local/emacs/info/" "/usr/local/lib/info/" "/usr/local/lib/emacs/info/" "/usr/share/info/emacs-23" "/usr/share/info/" "/usr/share/info/") Of this list, both /usr/share/info/emacs-23 and /usr/share/info/ have files. /usr/share/info/dir.gz exists. The stand-alone info program finds dir.gz just fine. Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Can't find the Info directory node") signal(error ("Can't find the Info directory node")) error("Can't find the Info directory node") Info-insert-dir() Info-directory-find-node("dir" "top" nil) apply(Info-directory-find-node ("dir" "top" nil)) Info-virtual-call(Info-directory-find-node "dir" "top" nil) Info-find-node-2("dir" "top" nil) Info-find-node("dir" "top") Info-directory() info(nil nil) call-interactively(info nil nil) -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (600, 'stable'), (90, 'testing'), (80, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages emacs23 depends on: ii emacs23-bin-common 23.2+1-7 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc ii libasound2 1.0.23-2.1 shared library for ALSA applicatio ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.11.3-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcairo2 1.8.10-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-4+squeeze1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1+squeeze4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgif4 4.1.6-9 library for GIF images (library) ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgpm2 1.20.4-3.3 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 2:1.0.6-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b1-1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libm17n-0 1.6.1-1 a multilingual text processing lib ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libotf0 0.9.11-1 A Library for handling OpenType Fo ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1+squeeze2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-1+squeeze2 PNG library - runtime ii librsvg2-2 2.26.3-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library ii libtiff4 3.9.4-5+squeeze3 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library ii libxft2 2.1.14-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxpm4 1:3.5.8-1 X11 pixmap library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime emacs23 recommends no packages. Versions of packages emacs23 suggests: ii emacs23-common-non-dfsg 23.2+1-1 GNU Emacs shared, architecture ind -- no debconf information -- Bill Wohler <woh...@newt.com> aka <bill.woh...@nasa.gov> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org