This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation, not to your local site managers! Please write in English, because the Emacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list, and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group. In GNU Emacs 21.2.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6, OSF/Motif Version 1.2.6) of 2002-08-08 on athene configured using `configure --with-x-toolkit=motif --prefix=/usr/local/src/edcad/gnu' 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: C locale-coding-system: nil default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: On reading (using C-x C-f) a file source controlled by SCCS and which has been checked out from the command line, emacs gives the error vc-sccs-state: Symbol's function definition is void: vc-workfile-unchanged-p This does not occur either with GNU Emacs 20.2.1. In version 21.2, the error does not occur if the variable vc-mistrust-permissions is set to t. Attached is a tar file including a test case which shows the bug. This file contains a directory called emacsbugshow, the subdirectory SCCS and its associated files and a test file myfile.txt. To see the bug, start a new vanilla emacs with emacs -q, and use C-x C-f to find myfile.txt.