Bug#562695: emacs23: visiting a .gz file fails

2009-12-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-12-27 19:37 +0100, John Martin wrote: > Previously you asked: >> So busybox is not installed as /bin/gzip, but somewhere else on your >> PATH. > > Indeed. Not only in /bin/busybox but also ~/bin/busybox with, I > think, the default PATH. > > ,[ printenv PATH ] > /home/jam/bin:/usr/lo

Bug#562695: emacs23: visiting a .gz file fails

2009-12-27 Thread John Martin
FWIW the extraneous ~/bin/busybox must have come from opening an initrd.img. I still do not understand how that should have confused emacs? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#562695: emacs23: visiting a .gz file fails

2009-12-27 Thread John Martin
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-12-27 17:49 +0100, John Martin wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> >>> What does "readlink -f $(/usr/bin/which gzip)" print? >> >> ,[ sudo readlink -f $(/usr/bin/which gzip) ] >>  /bin/gzip >> `--

Bug#562695: emacs23: visiting a .gz file fails

2009-12-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-12-27 17:49 +0100, John Martin wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> What does "readlink -f $(/usr/bin/which gzip)" print? > > ,[ sudo readlink -f $(/usr/bin/which gzip) ] > /bin/gzip > ` And what does Emacs print when you evaluate (executable-fin

Bug#562695: emacs23: visiting a .gz file fails

2009-12-27 Thread John Martin
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-12-27 16:06 +0100, John Martin wrote: > >> Not what I want and not what I intended. >> >> ,[ debsums gzip | grep /bin/gzip ] >>  /bin/gzip >>         OK > > So busybox is not installed as /bin/gzip, but somewhere else on your > PA

Bug#562695: emacs23: visiting a .gz file fails

2009-12-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-12-27 16:06 +0100, John Martin wrote: > Not what I want and not what I intended. > > ,[ debsums gzip | grep /bin/gzip ] > /bin/gzip > OK So busybox is not installed as /bin/gzip, but somewhere else on your PATH. > This is a fairly new installation (10 days) with very little

Bug#562695: emacs23: visiting a .gz file fails

2009-12-27 Thread John Martin
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-12-27 02:55 +0100, John Martin wrote: > >> Package: emacs23 >> Version: 23.1+1-5 >> Severity: normal >> >> Attempting to visit a gzipped file fails with something like the >> following in a window "*jka-compr-error*". >> >> , >>  E

Bug#562695: emacs23: visiting a .gz file fails

2009-12-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-12-27 02:55 +0100, John Martin wrote: > Package: emacs23 > Version: 23.1+1-5 > Severity: normal > > Attempting to visit a gzipped file fails with something like the > following in a window "*jka-compr-error*". > > , > Error while executing "gzip -c -q -d < > /usr/share/doc/debian-refe

Bug#562695: emacs23: visiting a .gz file fails

2009-12-26 Thread John Martin
Package: emacs23 Version: 23.1+1-5 Severity: normal Attempting to visit a gzipped file fails with something like the following in a window "*jka-compr-error*". , Error while executing "gzip -c -q -d < /usr/share/doc/debian-reference-common/html/debian-reference.en.txt.gz" gzip: invalid opt