Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!bloom-beacon!shelby!neon!Gang-of-Four!weening From: weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Re: Can't open shell buffer in 18.55 Message-ID: Date: 19 Jan 90 02:33:25 GMT References: <13065@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Sender: news@Neon.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: reed@olympus.princeton.edu's message of 18 Jan 90 20:44:25 GMT 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. -- Joe Weening Computer Science Dept. weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU Stanford University