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From: Jeremiah Peschka <jeremiah.peschka@gmail.com>
To: 32213@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32213: savehist displays the message “Symbol’s value as variable is void” on startup
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 13:39:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d774f3fd-f2c6-423c-802d-ea5aca52f1c5@Spark> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2678ce62-c255-4410-8fb4-d11d88166943@Spark>

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This bug can be closed. The issue occurred on my system due to misconfiguration of macOS’s newsyslogd.

By default, newsyslogd inserts a timestamp into a file after the log has been rotated - the new file receives the timestamp. Since emacs expects savehist files to be formatted correctly as elisp, this leads to the error I saw on startup.

The fix for this is to modify the newsyslogd command to use the “B” flag. For example:

# logfilename [owner:group] mode count size when flags [/pid_file] [sig_num]
/Users/username/.emacs.d/.cache/savehist username: 644 5 * $W0 JB



Jeremiah Peschka

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-21 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-19 14:24 bug#32213: emacs 26.1; savehist display the message “Symbol’s value as variable is void” on startup Jeremiah Peschka
2018-07-19 16:21 ` bug#32213: " Jeremiah Peschka
2018-07-20  1:48   ` Noam Postavsky
2018-07-21 20:39 ` Jeremiah Peschka [this message]
2018-07-21 21:03   ` bug#32213: savehist displays " Noam Postavsky

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