From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#1106: last-coding-system-used may be nil in load-with-code-conversion Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:34:47 -0400 Message-ID: <871vyrkpug.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> Reply-To: Chong Yidong , 1106@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223484774 6959 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2008 16:52:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 16:52:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 1106@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: domq@google.com (Dominique Quatravaux) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 08 18:53:51 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KncGL-0003mP-Op for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:51:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34497 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KncFI-0001eE-1F for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:50:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KncEe-00017o-7S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:50:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KncEc-00015b-4J for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:50:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36287 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KncEb-00015L-WB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:39539) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KncEa-0005Wk-Pg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:50:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m98GnvTc022233; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:49:57 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m98Ge4pU019975; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:40:04 -0700 X-Loop: don@donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Chong Yidong Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:40:04 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: don@donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 1106 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 1106-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B1106.122348358818615 (code B ref 1106); Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:40:04 +0000 Original-Received: (at 1106) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 8 Oct 2008 16:33:08 +0000 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu (CYD.MIT.EDU [18.115.2.24]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m98GX5f6018609 for <1106@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:33:06 -0700 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8CAA357E212; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 12:34:47 -0400 (EDT) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:50:03 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:21286 Archived-At: > Putting the following in one's .emacs causes Emacs to crash on > startup: > > (setq file-coding-system-alist nil) > (load "/dev/null") > > This happens because mule.el wrongly assumes that > last-coding-system-used cannot be null on line 84. > > In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) > of 2008-09-05 on vernadsky, modified by Ubuntu I can't reproduce the crash with Emacs 22.2. Maybe it's due to a Debian change? Could you check if the crash happens with a vanille Emacs 22.2 downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ ? Also, does the crash happen with Emacs CVS (or the Debian emacs-snapshot package)? Thanks.