From edd7d3beb4e886caeba20af16cf7f5ce7f38336d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 08:24:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Another reason for failures related to fontset.elc. --- etc/PROBLEMS | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 01f8d3cb22e..a18cee8996e 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -827,6 +827,16 @@ file could fail to load if it is compressed. The solution is to uncompress all .el files which don't have a .elc file. +Another possible reason for such failures is stale *.elc files +lurking somewhere on your load-path. The following command will +print any duplicate Lisp files that are present in load-path: + + emacs -q -batch -f list-load-path-shadows + +If this command prints any file names, some of these files are stale, +and should be deleted or their directories removed from your +load-path. + * Attempting to visit remote files via ange-ftp fails. If the error message is "ange-ftp-file-modtime: Specified time is not -- 2.39.2