Some commits ago, I'm not sure exactly when, Emacs compiled with native compilation branch no longer able to display Treemacs buffer. When trying open Treemacs I can see the error message: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil Here's minimal init.el: (defvar package-archives) (setq package-archives '(("gnu" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/") ("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/"))) (package-initialize) (package-refresh-contents) (unless (package-installed-p 'treemacs) (package-install 'treemacs)) (treemacs) This will automatically download and install treemacs, and run it, however the treemacs buffer is empty, and nothing works. If I switch to current master branch and recompile Emacs, then Treemacs works as expected, so I assume it is a native-comp branch bug. In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.13, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2020-06-28 built on toolbox Repository revision: 0eedb5af0b9f505dda9418323c74e992a40e5585 Repository branch: feature/native-comp Windowing system distributor 'Fedora Project', version 11.0.12008000 System Description: Fedora 32 (Workstation Edition) Recent messages: Checking /home/andreyorst/.emacs.d/elpa/treemacs-20200625.2056/icons/default/svgrepo... Checking /home/andreyorst/.emacs.d/elpa/treemacs-20200625.2056/icons/default/vsc... Done (Total of 28 files compiled, 2 skipped) Package ‘treemacs’ installed. Saving file /home/andreyorst/.emacs.d/init.el... Wrote /home/andreyorst/.emacs.d/init.el For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Wrong type argument: stringp, nil Quit Making completion list... [2 times] Configured using: 'configure --with-nativecomp --without-pop --prefix=/home/andreyorst/.local/emacs --bindir=/home/andreyorst/.local/bin '--program-transform-name=s/^ctags$/ctags.emacs/'' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ LIBOTF ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS JSON PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: treemacs-filewatch-mode: t treemacs-follow-mode: t treemacs-fringe-indicator-mode: t treemacs-git-mode: deferred override-global-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug sendmail cus-edit cus-start cus-load wid-edit treemacs treemacs-header-line treemacs-compatibility treemacs-mode treemacs-bookmarks warnings thunk treemacs-interface treemacs-extensions treemacs-persistence treemacs-mouse-interface treemacs-tag-follow-mode treemacs-filewatch-mode treemacs-tags treemacs-faces imenu xref project filenotify treemacs-follow-mode treemacs-rendering treemacs-visuals treemacs-fringe-indicator pulse treemacs-async treemacs-icons treemacs-themes bookmark pp treemacs-workspaces treemacs-scope treemacs-dom treemacs-core-utils treemacs-macros treemacs-logging treemacs-customization ace-window f hl-line pfuture ht s avy rx inline edmacro kmacro org ob ob-tangle ob-ref ob-lob ob-table ob-exp org-macro org-footnote org-src ob-comint org-pcomplete pcomplete org-list org-faces org-entities noutline outline org-version ob-emacs-lisp ob-core ob-eval org-table ol org-keys org-compat org-macs org-loaddefs format-spec find-func cal-menu calendar cal-loaddefs hydra advice lv dash cl-extra help-mode use-package-ensure use-package-delight use-package-diminish use-package-bind-key bind-key use-package-core info tar-mode arc-mode archive-mode easy-mmode compile comint ansi-color ring autoload radix-tree lisp-mnt mm-archive message dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs text-property-search time-date mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-utils gnutls network-stream url-http mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 mm-util ietf-drums mail-prsvr url-gw nsm rmc puny url-cache url-auth url url-proxy url-privacy url-expand url-methods url-history url-cookie url-domsuf url-util mailcap finder-inf package easymenu browse-url url-handlers url-parse auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core cl-macs eieio-loaddefs password-cache json subr-x map url-vars seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl-loaddefs cl-lib tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face pcase macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 330086 73278) (symbols 48 24681 57) (strings 32 106609 5332) (string-bytes 1 3050345) (vectors 16 38569) (vector-slots 8 862927 65016) (floats 8 440 527) (intervals 56 1333 0) (buffers 992 15)) -- Best regards, Andrey Orst