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Re: M-x shell not working


From: Peter Dyballa
Subject: Re: M-x shell not working
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:27:25 +0200


Am 18.10.2005 um 08:34 schrieb Sunil Yeddu:

Warning: no access to tty (Bad file descriptor).
Thus no job control in this shell.
stty: standard input: Invalid argument          <<<<<<<<<<<
exit

Process shell finished

This is very familiar for me on Mac OS X. Here it's found that using ttys is not reliable. (setq process-connection-type t) in .emacs 'corrects' this.

Your problem is that some shell rc file writes something into /dev/tty or such without first checking whether it's allowed or useful. So check the code in your shell's rc file(s), for example make the shell verbosely list what it's doing during its initialisation while working on the rc file(s)!

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Greetings

  Pete

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