Re: mm view PDF MIME part doesn't work, just exits

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:58:36 +0900 Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> wrote: 

>>>>>> Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> I debugged this down to mm-decode.el:mm-display-external which is a
>> pretty complicated process invoker.  The process sentinel gets process
>> status 'exit as soon as the process starts, and the `state' variable
>> says:

>> Displaying xpdf /tmp/emm.32715eef/KR090831.pdf...done (exited abnormally with code 1
>> )

KY> `mm-display-external' deletes a temp file 2 seconds after starting
KY> an external command.  The number of seconds is hard-coded, and may
KY> be too short.  How does it work if increasing the value?  That is
KY> in the 918th line.

I tried 2000 seconds, no difference.  I also changed the process call to:

		    (start-process "*display*"
				   (setq buffer
					 (generate-new-buffer " *mm*"))
				   shell-file-name
				   shell-command-switch "/usr/bin/xpdf /home/tzz/work/gdb-refcard.pdf")

which definitely works from the command line.  It still failed the same
way, "exited abnormally with code 1".  Maybe zsh is doing something
strange, but this was working fine until about a month ago so I'm not
sure what's causing it to fail.  Am I the only one seeing this problem?

Ted