Re: weird startup error in MacOS Mojave

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 19:35:12 +0100 Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 12:56:35AM +0200, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 06:08:37PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger
> > wrote:
> > > On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:26:57 +0200 "Herbert J. Skuhra"
> > > <herbert@gojira.at> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 09:46:06AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > I just upgraded my Mac to Mojave, and for the first time,
> > > > > starting the GUI is spitting out this error:
> > > > >
> > > > > 2018-09-25 09:43:29.255 Emacs[1948:30669] Failed to
> > > > > initialize color list unarchiver: Error
> > > > > Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4864 "*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver
> > > > > _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]:
> > > > > non-keyed archive cannot be decoded by NSKeyedUnarchiver"
> > > > > UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver
> > > > > _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]:
> > > > > non-keyed archive cannot be decoded by
> > > > > NSKeyedUnarchiver}
>
> This is nice. I don't know what's going on. I guess it's maybe
> related to the colour list we generate and which caused us some
> problems with the high sierra beta last year.
>
> Try deleting ~/Library/Colors/Emacs.clr. It will be recreated the
> next time you run Emacs.

Removing it gets rid of the error. Then if I restart emacs, the error
has come back with the file. So you do have a good idea of where the
problem is, but just removing that doesn't fix it.

> Try the attached patch, please. It replaces the above three commits.
> If nobody objects I'll push it to emacs-26 in a few days.
>
> I believe it fixes the crash, but it still fails to redraw the frame
> correctly when the font is changed. I don't have 10.14 yet (and
> probably won't before the end of the year) so I can't test it
> directly myself.

Would remote access to a 10.14 machine help?

Perry
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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com