gnats/250: edit-pr in Emacs generates errors and does not display edit buffer

[andrewg]

>Number:         250
>Category:       gnats
>Synopsis:       edit-pr in Emacs generates errors and does not display edit 
>buffer
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Aug 28 19:54:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Andrew Gray
>Release:        gnats-3.113.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
Red Hat Linux release 7.1, kernel 2.4.2-2, i586,
Emacs 20.7.1
>Description:
After entering M-x edit-pr, then the number of a valid PR,
The message "error in process sentinel: Opening input file:
no such file or directory, /usr/" appears in the command
buffer and the PR does not appear. Looking in the *Messages*
buffer reveals the following:

Fetching PR 200 in background.
Parsing the categories file...
error in process sentinel: Opening input file: no such file or directory, 
/usr/local/share/gnats/gnats-db/gnats-adm/cat [2 times]

A buffer named "*edit-pr 200*" exists and has the PR,
but it is in Fundamental mode, so it not useful for editting
the PR.
>How-To-Repeat:
Start Emacs.
M-x edit-pr
200<Return>
>Fix:
I have attached a patch to the gnats-el.in file that fixes
this problem in my environment. The patch simply restores
some code that was commented out. Looking at the ChangeLog
this change appears to have been made by Jason Merrill
<address@hidden> on 2000-07-12. Unfortunately I don't
understand how the gnats Lisp code works, so it is not
obvious to me that the commented out code is incomplete
as the comment asserts. Also, I do not know how my patch
will affect other environments or scenarios.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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