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Document problems with dumping on an NFS-mounted filesystem.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Thu, 01 Nov 2001 14:07:22 +0000
parents aeebb5c33587
children 4e8c66bd2abb
files etc/PROBLEMS
diffstat 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Thu Nov 01 13:35:34 2001 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Thu Nov 01 14:07:22 2001 +0000
@@ -372,6 +372,17 @@
 
 The solution is to remove this line from `etc/fstab'.
 
+* Emacs binary is not in executable format, and cannot be run.
+
+This was reported to happen when Emacs is built in a directory mounted
+via NFS.  Usually, the file `emacs' produced in these cases is full of
+binary null characters, and the `file' utility says:
+
+    emacs: ASCII text, with no line terminators
+
+We don't know what exactly causes this failure.  A work-around is to
+build Emacs in a directory on a local disk.
+
 * Accented ISO-8859-1 characters are displayed as | or _.
 
 Try other font set sizes (S-mouse-1).  If the problem persists with