In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.30) of 2016-05-09 built on ubuntu Repository revision: c20cc0986cdade6577d6ce169330db19e2169794 Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11803000 System Description: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Mark set Entering debugger... Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS NOTIFY LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK2 X11 Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Debugger 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 buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message puny dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec epa derived epg gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils debug edmacro kmacro finder-inf package epg-config url-handlers url-parse auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core cl-macs eieio-loaddefs password-cache url-vars seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cl-extra help-mode easymenu cconv cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib time-date 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 newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow 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 charscript 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 dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 160686 9061) (symbols 48 25447 0) (miscs 40 269 204) (strings 32 36119 6289) (string-bytes 1 970348) (vectors 16 19072) (vector-slots 8 522924 5107) (floats 8 224 52) (intervals 56 232 10) (buffers 976 13) (heap 1024 18327 1206)) (setq testprocess (make-network-process :name "test" :host 'local :server t :service t :family 'ipv4)) This works fine on emacs 24. It is not working in emacs 25. In emacs 25, it seems that only string and integer is accepted. :service service service specifies a port number to connect to; or, for a server, the port number to listen on. It should be a service name that translates to a port number, or an integer specifying the port number directly. For a server, it can also be t, which means to let the system select an unused port number. Backtrace log: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid argument 4 of operation 'open-network-stream'") make-network-process(:name "test" :host local :server t :service t :family ipv4) (setq testprocess (make-network-process :name "test" :host (quote local) :server t :service t :family (quote ipv4))) eval((setq testprocess (make-network-process :name "test" :host (quote local) :server t :service t :family (quote ipv4))) nil) elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil) eval-last-sexp(nil) funcall-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil) call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil) command-execute(eval-last-sexp)