Re: Symbol's value as variable is void: \211PNG

[David Kastrup]

Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I just turned my computer on today, and realized that my emacs no
> longer worked.
>
> When I start it, just as habitually, I encounter the *Messages*
> buffer, with some unuseful stuff, and then
>
> ==
> An error has occured while loading `/home/merciadriluca/.emacs':
>
> Symbol's value as variable is void: \211PNG
> ==
>
> The result of debug-init is
>
> ==
> Debugger entered--Listp error: (void-variable \211PNG)
>          eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*<2>> nil
>          "/home/merciadriluca/auctex-11.86/auctex.el" nil t) ; Reading
>          at buffer position 5
>          
> load-with-code-conversion("/home/merciadriluca/auctex-11.86/auctex.el"
>          "/home/merciadriluca/auctex-11.86/auctex.el" nil t)
>          load("~/auctex-11.86/auctex.el" nil t t)

[...]

I consider it most likely that your file
"/home/merciadriluca/auctex-11.86/auctex.el" has been overwritten with a
graphics file, due to user error or file system corruption.

-- 
David Kastrup