Re: cannot visit directories in emacs21

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: procmail@freemail.hu (deja8501)
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: 19 Nov 2001 22:32:41 -0800
> 
> According to debug-on-quit the cause of the problem is "df" which
> stopped working on my system (it halts and doesn't return).

Perhaps some filesystem doesn't respond?

> "df" comes
> from dired-free-space-program which was introduced in emacs21 that's
> why emacs20 still works.

As a temporary work-around, you could customize
dired-free-space-program to the value of nil, or point it to some
shell script that always fails.  This will cause you to lose the free
space report Dired prints, but at least Dired will work.

> Thanks for your help.

Thanks for working on this.