Hi Era,
Thanks for all your help in all of the comments you've made
(i think each one has something useful).
Just for reference for anybody who happens to have the
same problem and stumbles over this thread, what i ended
up doing is:
sudo apt-get --reinstall install emacs22-gtk
which seems to work, at least on one host. Not sure
at all that this is a minimal solution.
I reinstalled because i thought that was what
dpkg -l emacs22-gtk
was recommending (i didn't know apt-get had a
reinstall option). But maybe i just don't to interpret
it, because the message both before and after
reinstallation was exactly (character-for-character)
the same.
For reference, this common message was:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/
Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-
============================================
ii emacs22-gtk 22.2-0ubuntu6. The GNU Emacs editor (with GTK+ 2.x
support)
Era --- thanks again for your help.
dan
On May 21, 2010, at 1:05 AM, era wrote:
> Actually /etc/emacs/site-start.el is for site customizations, and is
> empty by default. The files in /etc/emacs/site-start.d are loaded on
> startup as well; I'm not sure if this is a Debian/Ubuntu customization
> or the default behavior of Emacs. But your *Messages* snippet above
> indicates that this doesn't happen in your case. A strace of emacs
> would reveal which files it's opening during startup but that's a
> pretty
> long shot. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Strace
>
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