Maybe you can enable debug-on-error. If you are lucky, you will get a
backtrace which contains some more information.
Best regards, Lukas
Rob Hill writes ("Spurious error messages"):
> Hello list,
>
> Since upgrading to Ubuntu 7.10, the following error message is spoken:
>
> "specified program for new process is a directory"
>
> when initiating a search with ctrol-s, or moving to the next message
> in VM, or moving to the beginning of line with ctrl-a, and in several other disparate circumstances. Apparently this
> error message is spoken only, and the expected (non-error) message appears
> in the mini-buffer.
>
> I am using the Ubuntu packages, emacs-version giving:
>
> GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) of 2007-08-29 on terranova,
> modified by Debian
>
> with emacspeak 24.0.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rob
>
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