> Now that you mention it, there's a message concerning bbdb-vm in your > error. I'll look into it this evening.
Purging the packages that generate error messages in "emacs -batch" (bbdb and mh-e) cured the problem on my system: # apt-get install vm-bonus-el Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: vm-bonus-el 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded. Need to get 55,2kB of archives. After unpacking 254kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.fr.debian.org sid/main vm-bonus-el 26.4-1 [55,2kB] Fetched 55,2kB in 0s (542kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package vm-bonus-el. (Reading database ... 1089718 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking vm-bonus-el (from .../vm-bonus-el_26.4-1_all.deb) ... Setting up vm-bonus-el (26.4-1) ... install/vm: Ignoring emacsen flavor emacs. install/vm: Byte-compiling for emacs-snapshot...vm files already compiled in /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/vm. install/vm: Byte-compiling for emacs21...vm files already compiled in /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/vm. install/vm: Byte-compiling for xemacs21...vm files already compiled in /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/vm. install/vm-bonus-el: Handling emacs-snapshot, logged in /tmp/elc_3LZkbc.log install/vm-bonus-el: Deleting /tmp/elc_3LZkbc.log install/vm-bonus-el: Handling emacs21, logged in /tmp/elc_q9FYec.log install/vm-bonus-el: Deleting /tmp/elc_q9FYec.log install/vm-bonus-el: Handling xemacs21, logged in /tmp/elc_XjcVam.log install/vm-bonus-el: Deleting /tmp/elc_XjcVam.log -- Laurent Bonnaud. http://www.lis.inpg.fr/pages_perso/bonnaud/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]