Timeout waiting for prompt. Check inferior-ess-prompt or ess-loop-timeout.
Jonathan Baron
baron at psych.upenn.edu
Fri Jul 11 14:29:06 CEST 2003
I get exactly the following behavior, from a message from the
ess-help archives, July 30, 2001:
When I do M-x R it hangs for a bit. At this point, nothing has
any effect except Ctrl G, the menus don't respond etc. After a
couple of minutes R does start up in a second buffer, and the
minibuffer says
Timeout waiting for prompt. Check inferior-ess-prompt or
ess-loop-timeout.
I'm using Xemacs 21.4 (patch 12) for Linux, and ESS 5.1.21. The
problem started when I started using ESS as an Xemacs package
(and, simultaneously, upgraded all my other Xemacs packages).
I am having a very hard time debugging it, because - and here is
the really puzzling thing - it happens only the first time I try
it each day (after shutting down my computer for the night).
(For several days, I would get the error, change something, then
try again and not get it, and think I had fixed it!)
After the first time, it still takes quite a while to start the
prompt, but I don't get the error.
Any ideas?
--
Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
R page: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/
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