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[John Covici <covici AT ccs.covici.com>]

OK, after finding the actual emacs binary and doing -nw, I actually
get some warning about my .emacs file and so I ran with --debug-init
and got the following:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
  make-process(:name nil :buffer nil)
    apply(make-process (:name nil :buffer nil))
      start-process(nil nil nil "play-sample" "button")
           emacspeak-play-auditory-icon(button)
             emacspeak-auditory-icon(button)
                  
emacspeak-sounds-select-theme("/Users/covici/emacspeak/sounds/ogg-chimes/")
                    emacspeak()
                      (let ((file-name-handler-alist nil)
  (load-source-file-function nil)) (load "emacspeak-loaddefs")
  (emacspeak))
    (if noninteractive nil (let ((file-name-handler-alist nil)
  (load-source-file-function nil)) (load "emacspeak-loaddefs")
  (emacspeak)))
    eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*-856885> nil
  "/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el" nil t)  ; Reading
  at buffer position 2150
    
load-with-code-conversion("/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el"
  "/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el" nil nil)
    load("/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el" nil nil t)
      load-file("/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el")
           eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/Users/covici/.emacs" nil
  t)  ; Reading at buffer position 3837
    load-with-code-conversion("/Users/covici/.emacs"
  "/Users/covici/.emacs" t t)
    load("~/.emacs" noerror nomessage)
      startup--load-user-init-file(#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode
  0x1569ad0cc53c31>) #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode
  -0x1f3c61addc0b5af5>) t)
    command-line()
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 08:04:51 -0500,
Parham Doustdar (via emacspeak Mailing List) wrote:
> 
> [1  <text/plain; utf-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> Also, if mplayer ends up not being the issue, can you clarify what you mean 
> by “some sort of fatal error”? What sort? :-) Also, any tracebacks?
> 
> > On 31 Jan 2024, at 13:40, John Covici <covici AT ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks for your quick response.
> > 
> > I did make clean, make confiig and make whenever I changed the
> > emacspeak I was using.  I did tryy to load emacspeak using esc-x
> > load-file, but I got some kind of fatal error when trying to do that.
> > Since this is a mac, would I need mplayer and sox?
> > 
> > On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 06:36:08 -0500,
> > Parham Doustdar (via emacspeak Mailing List) wrote:
> >> 
> >> [1  <text/plain; utf-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> >> Hi John,
> >> There could be many reasons for this, so I’m going to throw a whole 
> >> bunch of steps at you to see which one works, haha.
> >> First, have you tried running `make clean` and `make` when you either go 
> >> back to a release or to the git HEAD?
> >> Also, do you have Emacspeak dependencies, notably mplayer and sox 
> >> installed?
> >> If you do all this, we’ll need to figure out what happens when you load 
> >> Emacspeak. I’m not sure of the best way to do this given your 
> >> configuration, but maybe try the emacs -Q that you did before, and do 
> >> M-: (load-file “~/src/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el”) or whatever 
> >> your emacspeak path is, and see if you can read the buffer contents with 
> >> the errors, maybe from th e*Messages* buffer.
> >> Hope this gives you a few next steps to debug the issue!
> >> 
> >>> On 31 Jan 2024, at 12:28, John Covici (via emacspeak Mailing List) 
> >>> <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Hi everyone. So, I think this started after upgrading to emacs 29.1.
> >>> What happens is that after emacspeak is loaded emacs does not work --
> >>> escape followed by x types x in the buffer.  c-x followed by b does
> >>> nothing at all.  Many other things don't seem to work as they should.
> >>> 
> >>> So, I started on the hunt.  I am using the railway casc out of
> >>> homebrew, but the same thing happens with the original emacs macport.
> >>> So, the first thing I did was from the terrminal typed
> >>> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/emacs-mac/emacs-29.1-mac-10.0/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacx
> >>> -q  to see if it was my settings.  Sure enough, emacs was functioning,
> >>> I knew this because vo read  some things and I could actually hear m-x
> >>> when I typed esc-x .  So, I then fooled around with my .emacs file and
> >>> sure enough, the load of emacspeak was the problem.  I was using
> >>> emacspeak from git and I went back to emacs 59, but no joy.  I am
> >>> stumped after that, so any suggestions as to how to debug further
> >>> would be appreciated.
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks all.
> >>> 
> >>> -- 
> >>> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> >>> How do
> >>> you spend it?
> >>> 
> >>>        John Covici wb2una
> >>>        covici AT ccs.covici.com
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> >> 
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> > 
> > -- 
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> > How do
> > you spend it?
> > 
> >         John Covici wb2una
> >         covici AT ccs.covici.com
> 
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Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici wb2una
         covici AT ccs.covici.com