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#3930
DocView failure - bad error message, insufficient documentation
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Reported by: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:15:05 UTC
Severity: minor
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Trying to open a PDF file with Emacs/NS 23.1 branch (actually
Aquamacs, which has no relevant patches compared to the 23.1 branch),
I keep getting a "DocView: process pdf/ps->png changed status to trace/
BPT trap." message in *Messages*.
This happens with all PDFs, even small PDF files.
The buffer that is shown is not updated to reflect the error status.
What's worse is that the error message that is given is absolutely
unhelpful. It's unclear what "trace" or "BPT trap" means in this
concept, or what the abbreviation "BPT" is supposed to mean. This
does not help me as a user in addressing the error condition.
I suspect that it needs some ominous conversion tool that is not
installed or not installed in the right version.
I also looked up the doc string to "doc-view-mode", but it doesn't say
anything about pre-requisites.
I finally found something in the source code, but looking that up is
not obvious and too much to ask of a user (who is not a dev). Also,
even with the given information, I can't tell which of the conversion
tools it tried to call with what arguments, i.e. which one failed.
This needs a much better error message and ideally a bit more
documentation.
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Message #8 received at 3930 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Trying to open a PDF file with Emacs/NS 23.1 branch (actually
> Aquamacs, which has no relevant patches compared to the 23.1 branch),
> I keep getting a "DocView: process pdf/ps->png changed status to
> trace/BPT trap." message in *Messages*.
>
> This happens with all PDFs, even small PDF files.
>
> The buffer that is shown is not updated to reflect the error status.
>
> What's worse is that the error message that is given is absolutely
> unhelpful. It's unclear what "trace" or "BPT trap" means in this
> concept, or what the abbreviation "BPT" is supposed to mean. This
> does not help me as a user in addressing the error condition.
(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately haven't gotten any
responses yet.)
The string "BPT trap" doesn't exist in the Emacs code base (at least not
now), so I would suspect that it's an error message given by your OS?
Are you still seeing this problem in more modern Emacs versions?
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Message #15 received at 3930-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
This works for me now.
> On Aug 22, 2019, at 11:24 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> mouse.gnus.org> wrote:
>
> David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Trying to open a PDF file with Emacs/NS 23.1 branch (actually
>> Aquamacs, which has no relevant patches compared to the 23.1 branch),
>> I keep getting a "DocView: process pdf/ps->png changed status to
>> trace/BPT trap." message in *Messages*.
>>
>> This happens with all PDFs, even small PDF files.
>>
>> The buffer that is shown is not updated to reflect the error status.
>>
>> What's worse is that the error message that is given is absolutely
>> unhelpful. It's unclear what "trace" or "BPT trap" means in this
>> concept, or what the abbreviation "BPT" is supposed to mean. This
>> does not help me as a user in addressing the error condition.
>
> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately haven't gotten any
> responses yet.)
>
> The string "BPT trap" doesn't exist in the Emacs code base (at least not
> now), so I would suspect that it's an error message given by your OS?
>
> Are you still seeing this problem in more modern Emacs versions?
>
> --
> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
> bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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