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Added stale load-path problems.
author Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
date Sun, 02 Dec 2001 21:03:42 +0000
parents ebb6bd938b61
children 570eb21cf9d8
files etc/PROBLEMS
diffstat 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Sun Dec 02 17:29:41 2001 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Sun Dec 02 21:03:42 2001 +0000
@@ -837,6 +837,22 @@
 and should be deleted or their directories removed from your
 load-path.
 
+* Emacs prints an error at startup after upgrading from an earlier version.
+
+An example of such an error is:
+
+  x-complement-fontset-spec: "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" 
+
+This can be another symptom of stale *.elc files in your classpath.
+The following command will print any duplicate Lisp files that are
+present in load-path:
+
+    emacs -q -batch -f list-load-path-shadows
+
+If this command prints any file names, some of these files are stale,
+and should be deleted or their directories removed from your
+load-path.
+
 * Attempting to visit remote files via ange-ftp fails.
 
 If the error message is "ange-ftp-file-modtime: Specified time is not