docbook: Thread: Shot in the dark for an Emacs/PSGML question...

Hey all,

I'm having major struggles in Emacs, and not sure what happened.  I just
recently did an install of RedHat 8.0, so I have Emacs 21.2.1 and PSGML
1.2.3-5.  

Recently, I had done a boo-boo thing and had a remote session going,
because I was logged on my local machine, at the same time,  as the same
user.  The reason I say this is it's the only weird thing that recently
happened.  

Before my machine became hexed, when I loaded an SGML or XML file into
Emacs, PSGML was automatically loaded (I have it set in my .emacs file),
but now I get the following error, and no PSGML tools:

File mode specification error: (error "Substituting nonexistent
environment variable \"\"")

Has anyone run into this before?  I've tried removing all my .emacs
files, removing Emacs & PSGML packages and reinstalling them, but still
the error persists (even tried removing the dot files, but doesn't
help).

Are there any users of this combination that can tell me what might be
wrong?  I am truly at a loss, and frustrated because the tools won't
load!

Thanks in advance for anything you can think of!

Tabatha


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On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 09:54:38PM -0800, Tabatha Persad wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm having major struggles in Emacs, and not sure what happened.  I just
> recently did an install of RedHat 8.0, so I have Emacs 21.2.1 and PSGML
> 1.2.3-5.  
> 
> Recently, I had done a boo-boo thing and had a remote session going,
> because I was logged on my local machine, at the same time,  as the same
> user.  The reason I say this is it's the only weird thing that recently
> happened.  
> 
> Before my machine became hexed, when I loaded an SGML or XML file into
> Emacs, PSGML was automatically loaded (I have it set in my .emacs file),
> but now I get the following error, and no PSGML tools:
> 
> File mode specification error: (error "Substituting nonexistent
> environment variable \"\"")

At a rough guess, there is an environmental variable issue here. When
you log in remotely, do you get the same set of environmental
variables in Emacs?

I have noticed a problem with $OSTYPE. It is present in my shell, but
when I evaluate the lisp fragment (getenv "OSTYPE") I get "nil"
instead of the correct value, "linux-gnu".

Since this is related to psgml mode, try evaluating
(getenv "SGML_CATALOG_FILES").

Possibly there is a solution on the psyche list at Red Hat. Or maybe
you can set it in your .emacs, but that would be a work-around at
best.


Also, I have noticed a problem with emacsclient if I have two
instances of emacs running. It will send to the most recent instance
regardless of which login originates the request. The solution seems
to be to run only one instance of Emacs at a time.

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