Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!massey!E.Ireland
From: E.Ireland@massey.ac.nz (Evan Ireland)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: GNU Emacs interactive shell exiting immediately
Message-ID: <257sis-b@massey.ac.nz>
Date: 21 Mar 90 21:48:45 GMT
Reply-To: E.Ireland@massey.ac.nz
Organization: Information Sciences, Massey University, New Zealand
Lines: 24
Sender:

I remember about a month ago reading a message in comp.emacs about the GNU
Emacs interactive shell exiting immediately when invoked, however I did not
note the author and now it appears I have the same problem.

When I invoke the shell (as M-x shell) I receive the message
"Process shell not running" in the minibuffer (this only started happening
today) and if I change buffer to "*shell*", I see the message
"Process shell exited abnormally with code 1" in the shell buffer (once for
each time I do M-x shell; this has been happening since version 4 of SunOS
was installed about a month ago).

However the system administrator here has no problems starting up an
interactive shell.  This suggests to us that it may be a protection/privilege
problem.  Nevertheless we have been unable to find a solution as yet.

Machine/software details are:
	Sun 3/50 or 3/60 running SunOS 4.0.3_EXPORT
	GNU Emacs 18.55.6 of Sun Feb 18 1990 on sis-a (berkeley-unix)

Has anyone experienced and solved this problem?  Any help would be greatly
appreciated.  Please respond directly by email.

				  Evan Ireland (E.Ireland@massey.ac.nz),
School of Information Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ.