Jeffrey Walton writes: Hi Jeff, > It was created by GNU Emacs configure 27.2, which was > generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69. Invocation command line was > > $ ./configure --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr/local --libdir=/usr/local/lib --without-all --with-xml2 --with-json --with-libgmp --with-zlib --without-gnutls --with-selinux With this configuration, I could reproduce the problem. The appended patch fixes this for me, could you pls check? (There's no need to panic about Emacs 27.2, the patch is in autorevert-tests.el) > Jeff Best regards, Michael.