bug#1514: 23.0.60; Since some days (recentf-mode 1) fails with --daemon

[Tassilo Horn <thorn@fastmail.fm>]

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Here's a minimal test case:

  % emacs -Q --eval '(recentf-mode 1)' --daemon

The output is:

("emacs" "-Q" "--eval" "(recentf-mode 1)")
Starting Emacs daemon.
Loading /home/horn/.recentf...
Loading /home/horn/.recentf...done
Cleaning up the recentf list...
Loading tramp...
Wrong type argument: stringp, nil

If I omit the --daemon emacs starts up normally.  I have (recentf-mode
1) in my .emacs, and when starting emacs as daemon it'll stop evaluating
my init file after that line.

The change which breaks recentf-mode with --daemon has to be quite new.
At least a week ago --daemon worked fine with the same .emacs.

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/usr/share/emacs/23.0.60/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.5)
 of 2008-12-07 on thinkpad
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10502000
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/usr' '--host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--program-suffix=-emacs-23' '--infodir=/usr/share/info/emacs-23' '--with-sound' '--with-x' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' '--with-gif' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png' '--with-rsvg' '--with-tiff' '--with-xpm' '--with-freetype' '--with-xft' '--with-libotf' '--with-m17n-flt' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--without-hesiod' '--without-kerberos' '--without-kerberos5' '--with-gpm' '--with-dbus' '--build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 'build_alias=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -ggdb -O1 -pipe' 'LDFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: rcirc

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  rcirc-track-minor-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  iswitchb-mode: t
  window-number-meta-mode: t
  window-number-mode: t
  savehist-mode: t
  exec-abbrev-cmd-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  use-hard-newlines: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
; C-x C-s <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> ; ; <down> <left> 
<left> ; ; C-x C-s <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <f8> <C-f8> 
<C-f8> C-a ; ; C-x C-s <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <backspace> 
<backspace> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <C-f8> <left> <left> 
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> 
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <backspace> 
<backspace> <down> <delete> <delete> <down> <delete> 
<delete> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <C-f8> <C-f8> <C-f8> 
<C-f8> C-x C-s <f8> C-c C-SPC T h e n SPC i t SPC w 
o r k s <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> s t a r t s SPC f i n e SPC ( I SPC c o 
m m e n t e d SPC a l l SPC l i s e <backspace> <backspace> 
n e l SPC t <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> s SPC 
t h a t SPC r e f e r e n c e SPC r e c e n t . <backspace> 
f - e x c l u d e , SPC t o o ) . <return> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> I t SPC s e e m s SPC s o . SPC SPC I ' l 
l SPC t r y SPC t o SPC <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> l SPC r e p o r t SPC a n <backspace> SPC 
b u g <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> SPC 
w r i t e SPC a n <backspace> SPC b u g SPC r e p o 
r t . <return> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> M-x r e b <return> 
r e p o <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Saving file /home/horn/repos/configs/dot-emacs.el...
Wrote /home/horn/repos/configs/dot-emacs.el
Mark set
Saving file /home/horn/repos/configs/dot-emacs.el...
Wrote /home/horn/repos/configs/dot-emacs.el
Mark set [2 times]
Saving file /home/horn/repos/configs/dot-emacs.el...
Wrote /home/horn/repos/configs/dot-emacs.el
Auto-saving...done
call-interactively: End of buffer [2 times]

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