From a8fddb6eadf40e6f2b256e8b2e79027accb08fa3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:11:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document problems with dumping on an NFS-mounted filesystem. --- etc/PROBLEMS | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 050ee208b24..8c06817d383 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -372,6 +372,17 @@ you are working on the host called `marvin'. Then an entry in the The solution is to remove this line from `etc/fstab'. +* Emacs binary is not in executable format, and cannot be run. + +This was reported to happen when Emacs is built in a directory mounted +via NFS. Usually, the file `emacs' produced in these cases is full of +binary null characters, and the `file' utility says: + + emacs: ASCII text, with no line terminators + +We don't know what exactly causes this failure. A work-around is to +build Emacs in a directory on a local disk. + * Accented ISO-8859-1 characters are displayed as | or _. Try other font set sizes (S-mouse-1). If the problem persists with -- 2.39.2