[Bug: 21.4.19] gnuserv-start

[stephen at xemacs.org]

In the future, please follow up to the mailing list.  That way others
will know that this problem can be solved/worked around this way.
(This time my post is sufficient.)

Fran?ois Jouve writes:

 > Kevin Oberman wrote:

 > > One other thing to check/try...do you have an entry for your system in
 > > your hosts file? If not, it may be trying a DNS lookup and failing.

 > It works !  Thank's *a lot* for your help. I have been searching
 > for monthes this answer.  Actually my /etc/hosts was :
 > 
 > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain  localhost  myhostname
 > 
 > and I changed it into
 > 
 > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain  localhost  myhostname myhostname.my.domain

 > PS: I know that you are not responsible for that but the version 21.5.27
 > of xemacs (which is a beta version) is very buggy. You get the message :
 > "Invalid constant: Unrecognized coding category iso-8859-1"
 > Unfortunately, it is the version that is present in the new fedora core 6
 > distribution...

It's also apparently not a bug in our distribution---I've never heard
of it before.  If you have access to it, try whatever gives that
message under "xemacs -q" (to make sure it's not something in your
init file), and if it still happens, send them a report.

We'd be happy to help, but this looks like a typo to me (the coding
category is iso-8-1)---just grepping the rpm patchset should uncover
it quickly.

 > There is no problem to downgrade it to the latest stable version (21.4.19),
 > but a bug-free version in a brand new distrib may be a better idea :)

*chortle*  I have yet to hear a good word about FC6.  All the Fedora
users I know are bitching about new driver and app bugs.

I'm sure it's got lots and lots of good stuff (sez me as I type into a
Mac OS X 10.3.9 Terminal displaying XEmacs running on a Gentoo Linux
system:-), but Fedora is about "many eyes, shallow bugs", not about
stability.