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Another reason for failures related to fontset.elc.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Fri, 30 Nov 2001 08:24:22 +0000
parents 4f66d5b614de
children 722fe545e535
files etc/PROBLEMS
diffstat 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Fri Nov 30 08:23:25 2001 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Fri Nov 30 08:24:22 2001 +0000
@@ -827,6 +827,16 @@
 The solution is to uncompress all .el files which don't have a .elc
 file.
 
+Another possible reason for such failures is stale *.elc files
+lurking somewhere on your load-path.  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