[Bug: 21.5-b28] Problem with dired (C-x d)

[Thomas Mittelstaedt]

Hmm.

Downloaded the dired package, version 1.17, again, unpacked it, 
byte-compiled dired.el, and so far, could not
reproduce the problem anymore. The previous package only had .elc files 
in it.

thomas

Mats Lidell schrieb:
> Michael Sperber writes:
>   
>> Very odd: It seems it's trying to insert the directory list into
>> the *Buffer List* buffer.
>>     
>
> This sounds like the same problem I have been seeing for years:
>
> "http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/xemacs-beta/2006-May/009236.html"
>
> The idea that font locking could be involved let me then to go back to 
> good old slow font locking and by that I manage to keep the problem 
> away. But it resurfaced again a few months, maybe even half a year, ago. 
> So I guess the bug it is lurking inside somewhere.
>
>   
>> Could you trace the `dired-find-buffer-nocreate' function when it
>> happens, reproduce the problem, and post the output?  I.e.
>>
>> M-x trace-function-backgroud RET
>> dired-find-buffer-nocreate RET
>> RET
>>
>> and then post the contents of *trace-output*?
>>     
>
> I'll try this as well but from my experience when the problem occurs you 
> are smoked. Trying the operation again does not reveal that much since 
> the situation is different. And the dired buffer is definitely not right 
> so you need to look out for other errors caused by that fact. Maybe 
> deleting the dired buffer and retrying the operation is worth a try if 
> the other way doesn't work out right.
>
> Yours
> --
> %% Mats
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