On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> wrote: > Jeff Horn <jrhorn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The recursion happens with the function 'file-truename' according to >> my message buffer. Maybe it's something in my config, afterall? >> > > C-h f file-truename says > > ,---- > | file-truename is a compiled Lisp function in `files.el'. > | > | (file-truename FILENAME) > | > | Return the truename of FILENAME, which should be absolute. > | The truename of a file name is found by chasing symbolic links > | both at the level of the file and at the level of the directories > | containing it, until no links are left at any level. > | > `---- > > file-truename is smart enough to detect symlink loops (it has a counter > that starts at 100 and decrements on every dereference: if it ever gets > negative, watch out) and recursion seems to occur when it steps to the > parent directory and tries to find *its* truename - but there seem to be > adequate safeguards to prevent bottomless recursion (e.g. the remaining > counter is passed to subsequent calls). > > It might be a good exercise to start with whatever file it's failing on > and then look at both it and all its parent directories (with ls -l if > you are on Linus/OSX/BSD/other Unix variant), taking a jaundiced look at > any symlinks you find on the way. > > Nick > >
NIck, thanks for your thorough reply. I thought having "~" in my org path might have been triggering it, but it isn't. I've reduced my org-agenda files down to just one, tasks.org, which live in "org" in my dropbox folder. This folder is symlinked to "~/org" for ease-of-use. I enabled debug-on-quit and tried looking at the backtrace while the agenda was hanging. Somewhere along the way, many lines before the error occurs, "~/org" is *correctly* translated as "/Users/jeffreyhorn/Dropbox/org". The error is occurring immediately after org "prepares buffers" (the org files). The last few lines of the backtrace are: org-agenda(nil) call-interactively(org-agenda nil nil) I'll try moving the agenda file to my home directory and see what happens. (interlude) OK. I created a very simple two line org file with a single todo and placed it in my home directory. Starting a new emacs session and visiting the file is enough to trigger the error. Visiting a buffer of another type (text for instance) *also* produces this error. -- Jeffrey Horn Graduate Lecturer and PhD Student in Economics George Mason University (704) 271-4797 jh...@gmu.edu jrhorn...@gmail.com http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/ _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
