Re: [O] file-error

[Nick Dokos]

Jeff Kowalczyk <address@hidden> wrote:

> I use el-get org-mode recipe, but I see the same behavior with a typical
> org-mode config from init.el.
> 
> On org-mode git master start with emacs bzr trunk (emacs 24), org errors on 
> load:
> 
> File mode specification error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "lisp/org")
> progn: Cannot open load file: lisp/org
> 
> Any idea what file mode specification in this context would be? The unix file
> mode is normal:
> 
> [master]~/.emacs.d/el-get $ ls -al org-mode/lisp/org.el*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 myuser users 774897 May 10 16:45 org-mode/lisp/org.el
> -rw-r--r-- 1 myuser users 688684 May 10 16:45 org-mode/lisp/org.elc
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions,
> 

We need a backtrace: see section 1.4, "Feedback", in the Orgmode manual.
But clearly, this is not an orgmode error: emacs just cannot find the file
to load (for whatever reason - the backtrace will make clear what the reason
is, but it is probably an incorrect load-path or an incorrect file spec).

Nick