reed@olympus.princeton.edu (01/19/90)
I recently made gnuemacs 18.55 for a Sparc station running Sun OS 4.0.3. Everything seems to run fine, except for one small problem. When I try to open the shell buffer with the M-x shell command, I receive the following error message: Process shell exited abnormally with code 1 The shell window opens fine, but for some reason, no shell process seems to be able to run. I took a look at the source code, but I really couldn't figure out what's going wrong. Does anybody out there have any ideas? Thanks in advance.
weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) (01/19/90)
In article <13065@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> reed@olympus.princeton.edu writes:
I recently made gnuemacs 18.55 for a Sparc station running Sun OS 4.0.3.
Everything seems to run fine, except for one small problem. When I
try to open the shell buffer with the M-x shell command, I receive
the following error message:
Process shell exited abnormally with code 1
I've seen this happen on a number of machines. The problem is usually
that Emacs is trying to use a pty for the shell buffer that is still
in use as some other process's controlling terminal. There's an easy
workaround: rename (don't kill) the shell buffer and type M-x shell
again. Try it several times (renaming each bad buffer to something
different) if it doesn't work the first time.
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Joe Weening Computer Science Dept.
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