[Bug: 21.4.19] Init file error

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Matson <michael at vetl.org> writes:

    Michael> I am getting a persistent "init.el" file error when I
    Michael> start xemacs. This bug persists even if I completely
    Michael> delete the init.el and replace it with a nul file, or if
    Michael> I comment out virtually everything. Deleting the init.el
    Michael> produces the expected results: An error.

This is probably a problem with the other startup code.  We supply
none, so,

    Michael> uname -a: Linux hammer1.fedora.redhat.com
    Michael> 2.6.12-1.1376_FC3smp #1 SMP Fri Aug 26 23:51:16 EDT 2005
    Michael> i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

I suggest that you get in touch with your vendor.

Other debugging exercises:

(1) put `(setq inhibit-default-init t)' in init.el at the end.
    If no error, stop.  The problem is in default.el.  Use M-x
    locate-library RET default RET to find it.

(2) start xemacs with `xemacs -q'.
    If no error, stop and please tell us about it.  I don't see how
    that could happen given the other behavior you report.

(3) start xemacs with `xemacs -vanilla'.
    If no error, stop.  The problem is in either site-start or local
    package you have installed in ~/.xemacs.

(4) start xemacs with `xemacs -no-autoloads'.
    If no error, stop.  The problem is in the packages somewhere.

(5) if you get here, the odds are very high it's a problem in your
    vendor's package.

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