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[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/PROBLEMS


From: Jason Rumney
Subject: [Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/PROBLEMS
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 16:03:42 -0500

Index: emacs/etc/PROBLEMS
diff -c emacs/etc/PROBLEMS:1.92 emacs/etc/PROBLEMS:1.93
*** emacs/etc/PROBLEMS:1.92     Fri Nov 30 03:24:22 2001
--- emacs/etc/PROBLEMS  Sun Dec  2 16:03:42 2001
***************
*** 837,842 ****
--- 837,858 ----
  and should be deleted or their directories removed from your
  load-path.
  
+ * Emacs prints an error at startup after upgrading from an earlier version.
+ 
+ An example of such an error is:
+ 
+   x-complement-fontset-spec: "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" 
+ 
+ This can be another symptom of stale *.elc files in your classpath.
+ 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



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