From: Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org,
Subject: Re: desktop abends after first buffer loads
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:42:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqz5mrpf.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d3vavnxs.fsf@pobox.com>
<bump/> Is there a better place to ask questions about desktop?
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2010-06/msg00190.html
> summary: on starting emacs with desktop enabled, the first saved
> buffer opens, and I get the local-variables prompt, then
> > Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil
> and no further buffers open. How to fix?
> details:
> For several months I have been running GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 via
> ubuntu karmic package=emacs-snapshot-gtk:
> $ lsb_release -ds
> Ubuntu 9.10
> $ uname -rv
> 2.6.31-22-generic #60-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 27 02:41:03 UTC 2010
> $ emacs-snapshot-gtk --version
> GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1
> which I run via
> $ emacs-snapshot-gtk --debug-init
> For many years, I have been running emacs with desktop. Until this
> afternoon, desktop was working. This afternoon, I added a new
> file/buffer to my desktop and closed emacs. When I reopened emacs, I
> got the usual local-variables prompt
> > Please type y, n, or !, or C-v to scroll:
> and typed '!' as usual. Unusually, I got the response
> > Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil
> and no further buffers opened. (And I did not get kicked into the
> debugger, the message was only displayed in the minibuffer.) I
> immediately `kill -9`ed emacs and copied the desktop file to a
> backup. I tried copy/modifying the desktop file to remove the first,
> second, and first 2 buffers from the list, but no change: first
> buffer loads, then no more. How to fix or debug?
> TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>
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