error: el4r-instance is dead.

[gicappa]

At the end of this issue you can find the whole emacs log
I'm using Aquamacs Emacs.app on OSX Mountain Lion

The error shown is "error: el4r-instance is dead. "

Has anyone experienced it?
TIA.

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el4r started.

An error has occurred while loading `/Users/gicappa/.emacs':

error: el4r-instance is dead.

To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
cause of the error in your initialization file. Start Emacs with
the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace.

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[devn]

I'm running emacs 24 compiled from source on OSX 10.7.

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Face height does not produce a positive integer" -9)
signal(error ("Face height does not produce a positive integer" -9))
(condition-case err (eval (setq expr (read result))) (el4r-ruby-error (signal (quote el4r-ruby-error) nil)) (error (setq el4r-error-lisp-expression expr) (signal (car err) (cdr err))))
(let ((result (el4r-recv)) expr) (while (eq (length result) 0) (el4r-wait-expr) (setq result (el4r-recv))) (condition-case err (eval (setq expr (read result))) (el4r-ruby-error (signal (quote el4r-ruby-error) nil)) (error (setq el4r-error-lisp-expression expr) (signal (car err) (cdr err)))))
el4r-get()
(let ((result (el4r-get))) (el4r-leave-call) result)
el4r-ruby-eval("el4r_boot")
el4r-boot()
eval-buffer(#<buffer load> nil "/Users/plato/.emacs" nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 222
load-with-code-conversion("/Users/plato/.emacs" "/Users/plato/.emacs" t t)
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[darthdeus]

I'm having the same exact issue, +1

[localredhead]

+1 on 24 stable.

[dcunited001]

+1, using 23.4

[yozlet]

@trogdoro just did some debugging on this, 'cos I'm having the same issue. For me, the problem has been the combination of Aquamacs, rvm and zsh: In order to load el4r correctly, Aquamacs's shell session (which is used to talk to Ruby) needs to have the various rvm environment variables set. These are added by your .zshrc (or whatever). However, while Aquamacs will execute .bash_login fine (if your shell is bash) it won't run a login file for zsh - whether .zshrc or anything else. (This is a known bug in Aquamacs.)

The fix, for me, was switching from zsh to bash. This is a pain as I love Oh My ZSH, but I'd rather get xiki working for the moment.

[zenshell]

+1,GNU Emacs 24.2.1

[willgorman]

Has anyone found a solution for this? I'm running into this with 24.3 installed with homebrew. Tried using bash instead of zsh as mentioned above but wasn't able to resolve the issue that way.

[trogdoro]

Hi! "error: el4r-instance is dead" is the standard error for the el4r
(emacs ruby bridge) library. Check the el4r log to see what the error is.
The filename is something like...

/tmp/el4r-foo.63388.log

If you have Xiki set up, you can type meta-e to jump to the log file.

You'll probably have better luck with Aquamacs or Emacs.app. I think
homebrew gives you the console version of emacs? (It doesn't work with
Xiki at the moment, I think.)

--Craig

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Will Gorman notifications@github.comwrote:

Has anyone found a solution for this? I'm running into this with 24.3
installed with homebrew. Tried using bash instead of zsh as mentioned above
but wasn't able to resolve the issue that way.

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/28#issuecomment-27389743
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[rjharmon]

I encountered this same symptom: Mountain Lion, RVM. Also, setting default rvm didn't work, probably because I wanted to keep xiki's deps sandboxed to its own gemset. Although this issue is old, it's a search result hit for the symptom, so I'm sharing what I've learned about (today's instance of) it here.

I needed this in ~/.el4rrc.rb:

$: << File.join(el4r_gem, "lib")

core/keys.rb:321 needed escaping of {} characters too.

That left with the sole problem where it's not picking up the right RVM. I added this to the .el4rrc.rb, though I'm not sure it's really the "right" place for it:

# Probably rvm ENV vars will handle this  (rjh: no, it wasn't handled :)
ENV['GEM_HOME']='/Users/rharmon/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392'
ENV['GEM_PATH']='/Users/rharmon/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392:/Users/rharmon/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392@xiki'

I still get a warning: Blocking call to accept-process-output with quit inhibited!! when I'm navigating around @WELCOME, but xiki seems to be working finally. Hooray!