Bruno Haible writes: Hi Bruno, >> I'm speaking about the debug file in /tmp (or wherever your temprary >> directory is). A file name which starts with a star, and ends with a >> star, as said above. > > There is no file with such a name anywhere on this machine's disk. Hmm, so the problem is deeper than expected. I've modified the patch to add traces from the very beginning of the test case, see appended. Could you pls try? And just to make it sure: you're running Emacs 30? > Bruno Best regards, Michael.