23.0.60; Comint:no process

[Joel J. Adamson]

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

"M-x shell" brings up shell buffer with no shell process and message
"comint-exec-1: No process started"

Modeline reads "Comint:no process"

My default shell is /bin/zsh

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please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
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In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i686-slackware-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.13)
 of 2007-11-15 on W0053328
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10300000
configured using `configure  '--with-gtk' '--enable-font-backend' '--with-xft' 
'--prefix=/usr' '--enable-shared' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var' 
'--enable-perl=/usr/bin/perl' '--build=i686-slackware-linux' 
'--host=i686-slackware-linux' 'build_alias=i686-slackware-linux' 
'host_alias=i686-slackware-linux' 'CFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Org

Minor modes in effect:
  iswitchb-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
SPC n SPC C-n SPC n n n SPC n SPC C-x 1 C-n C-n C-p 
SPC SPC SPC C-n C-n SPC C-v C-n C-n SPC SPC I s e p 
<return> h C-v SPC SPC SPC M-x m y SPC p r i n SPC 
b SPC <return> L u x i S e r i f 1 0 <return> h C-x 
1 C-n C-n SPC C-n SPC C-x 1 ` c y <return> SPC C-x 
d C-a C-k / f t p : f t p @ o s u o s l . s l a c k 
w a r e . M-b M-t C-e o r g : / p u b / s l a c k w 
a r e / <return> C-x 1 <return> C-s p a t c h e s <return> 
<return> C-s p a c k a C-n <return> s M-< C-n C-n C-n 
C-n m C-n C-n C-p m C-n C-n m C-n C-n m C-p C-p C-p 
C-p u C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n m C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p u n m C C-a C-k ~ / t m p / <return> M-x s 
h e l l <return> M-x s h e l l <return> <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> M-x a n s i SPC t e r m <return> <return> 
c d SPC <M-backspace> i n s t a <M-backspace> u p g 
r a d e p k g SPC M-D C-h M-D <M-backspace> s u <return> 
d a r 2 i n 5 9 <return> u p g r a d e p k g SPC p 
h p <tab> <return> M-x <switch-frame> M-x r e p o r 
t SPC e m e SPC <backspace> a SPC b SPC <return>

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comint-exec-1: No process started [2 times]

-- 
Joel J. Adamson
Biostatistician
Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA  02114
(617) 643-1432
(303) 880-3109


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