This happens with latest master, after make bootstrap: 1) emacs -Q 2) M-x eshell eshell-mode: Symbol’s value as variable is void: eshell-variable-aliases-list Eshell starts, but the prompt cannot be seen (and by default, eshell-prompt is enabled). Bisecting points to 0d5e83611e5157800fd855fe8e3f60c8eff0af7c Best regards, Mauro. In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9) of 2019-04-08 built on the-blackbeard Repository revision: 3e5e097fdf056f4b3440993dd25ebdbad436abc3 Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11906000 System Description: Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS Recent messages: Loading em-basic...done Loading em-cmpl...done Loading em-dirs...done Loading em-glob...done Loading em-hist...done Loading em-ls...done Loading em-prompt...done Loading em-script...done Loading em-term...done Loading em-unix...done eshell-mode: Symbol’s value as variable is void: eshell-variable-aliases-list Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM THREADS PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.utf8 value of $XMODIFIERS: locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Eshell Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs text-property-search time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils em-unix em-term term disp-table easymenu ehelp em-script em-prompt em-ls cl-loaddefs cl-lib em-hist em-pred em-glob em-dirs em-cmpl pcomplete comint ansi-color ring em-basic em-banner em-alias esh-mode eshell esh-cmd esh-ext esh-opt esh-proc esh-io esh-arg esh-module esh-groups esh-util elec-pair mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 8 59334 5566) (symbols 24 7470 1) (strings 16 19939 1418) (string-bytes 1 686848) (vectors 8 11799) (vector-slots 4 144802 10856) (floats 8 24 51) (intervals 28 205 0) (buffers 564 12) (heap 1024 7804 765))