Comint "bug" solved (was: 23.0.60; Comint:no process)

[Joel J. Adamson]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     "M-x shell" brings up shell buffer with no shell process and message
>     "comint-exec-1: No process started"
>
>     Modeline reads "Comint:no process"
>
> This doesn't fail for me, after I set explicit-shell-file-name
> to "/bin/zsh".  It starts up ok.

The problem was my current working directory, which was located on an
ftp server ;)

Joel

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