23.0.50; wrong-type-argument stringp cperl-mode-abbrev-table upon reading abbrevs

23.0.50; wrong-type-argument stringp cperl-mode-abbrev-table upon reading abbrevs

[Eric Hanchrow]

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I simply started Emacs with "emacs -nw".

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp cperl-mode-abbrev-table)
  intern(cperl-mode-abbrev-table [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...])
  define-abbrev([ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...] cperl-mode-abbrev-table "=head1" cperl-electric-pod 0)
  apply(define-abbrev [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...] (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "=head1" cperl-electric-pod 0))
  define-abbrev-table(cperl-mode-abbrev-table ((cperl-mode-abbrev-table "=head1" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "=head2" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "=over" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "=pod" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "continue" cperl-electric-else 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "do" cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "else" cperl-electric-else 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "elsif" cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "for" cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "foreach" cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "foreachmy" cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "formy" cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "head1" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "head2" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "if" cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "over" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "pod" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "unless" cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "until" cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "while" cperl-electric-keyword 0)))
  eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/erich/.abbrev_defs" nil t)  ; Reading at buffer position 2442
  load-with-code-conversion("/home/erich/.abbrev_defs" "/home/erich/.abbrev_defs" nil t)
  load("~/.abbrev_defs" nil t)
  read-abbrev-file("~/.abbrev_defs" t)
  quietly-read-abbrev-file("~/.abbrev_defs")
  command-line()
  normal-top-level()


If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/usr/local/src/emacs-cvs-trunk/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
 of 2007-11-04 on debian
configured using `configure  '--enable-maintainer-mode' '--with-xpm=no' '--with-jpeg=no' '--with-gif=no' '--with-tiff=no' '--with-xft' '--with-gtk' '--enable-font-backend''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Debugger

Minor modes in effect:
  erc-autojoin-mode: t
  erc-match-mode: t
  erc-log-mode: t
  erc-services-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  iswitchb-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-x h ESC w ESC x r e p o r t - e m TAB b TAB RET

Recent messages:
Cleaning up the recentf list...done (0 removed)
I guess we don't have tabbar available.
Loading /home/erich/.emacs.d/erc-stuff.el (source)...done
Loading /home/erich/.emacs.d/mwolsons-erc-timestamp-stuff.el (source)...done
Loading /home/erich/.environment.el (source)...done
I guess we don't have amz-common available.
Loading /home/erich/.emacs.d/elpa/package.el (source)...done
I guess we don't have xml-rpc available.
Entering debugger...
Mark set [2 times]

-- 
... democracy is the worst form of government except all those
other forms that have been tried from time to time.
        -- Winston Churchill, cited at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy

Re: 23.0.50; wrong-type-argument stringp cperl-mode-abbrev-table upon reading abbrevs

[Stefan Monnier]

> I simply started Emacs with "emacs -nw".

Can you send us your ~/.abbrev_defs (be careful to sanitize it first, if
necessary, of course)?


        Stefan


> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp cperl-mode-abbrev-table)
>   intern(cperl-mode-abbrev-table [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...])
>   define-abbrev([ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...] cperl-mode-abbrev-table "=head1" cperl-electric-pod 0)
>   apply(define-abbrev [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...] (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "=head1" cperl-electric-pod 0))
>   define-abbrev-table(cperl-mode-abbrev-table ((cperl-mode-abbrev-table "=head1" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "=head2" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "=over" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "=pod" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "continue" cperl-electric-else 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "do" cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "else" cperl-electric-else 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "elsif" cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "for" cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "foreach" cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "foreachmy" cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "formy" cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "head1" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "head2" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "if" cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "over" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "pod" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "unless" cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "until" cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "while" cperl-electric-keyword 0)))
>   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/erich/.abbrev_defs" nil t)  ; Reading at buffer position 2442
>   load-with-code-conversion("/home/erich/.abbrev_defs" "/home/erich/.abbrev_defs" nil t)
>   load("~/.abbrev_defs" nil t)
>   read-abbrev-file("~/.abbrev_defs" t)
>   quietly-read-abbrev-file("~/.abbrev_defs")
>   command-line()
>   normal-top-level()


> If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
> please include the output from the following gdb commands:
>     `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
> If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
> /usr/local/src/emacs-cvs-trunk/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


> In GNU Emacs 23.0.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
>  of 2007-11-04 on debian
> configured using `configure  '--enable-maintainer-mode' '--with-xpm=no' '--with-jpeg=no' '--with-gif=no' '--with-tiff=no' '--with-xft' '--with-gtk' '--enable-font-backend''

> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: nil
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

> Major mode: Debugger

> Minor modes in effect:
>   erc-autojoin-mode: t
>   erc-match-mode: t
>   erc-log-mode: t
>   erc-services-mode: t
>   recentf-mode: t
>   display-time-mode: t
>   shell-dirtrack-mode: t
>   iswitchb-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
>   utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>   transient-mark-mode: t

> Recent input:
> C-x h ESC w ESC x r e p o r t - e m TAB b TAB RET

> Recent messages:
> Cleaning up the recentf list...done (0 removed)
> I guess we don't have tabbar available.
> Loading /home/erich/.emacs.d/erc-stuff.el (source)...done
> Loading /home/erich/.emacs.d/mwolsons-erc-timestamp-stuff.el (source)...done
> Loading /home/erich/.environment.el (source)...done
> I guess we don't have amz-common available.
> Loading /home/erich/.emacs.d/elpa/package.el (source)...done
> I guess we don't have xml-rpc available.
> Entering debugger...
> Mark set [2 times]

> -- 
> ... democracy is the worst form of government except all those
> other forms that have been tried from time to time.
>         -- Winston Churchill, cited at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy


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Re: 23.0.50; wrong-type-argument stringp cperl-mode-abbrev-table upon reading abbrevs

[Stefan Monnier]

> I simply started Emacs with "emacs -nw".

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp cperl-mode-abbrev-table)

I believe the problem was in the .abbrev_defs file because of a bug in
abbrev--write.  More specifically, the patch below should fix it.


        Stefan


Index: abbrev.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/abbrev.el,v
retrieving revision 1.60
diff -u -u -b -r1.60 abbrev.el
--- abbrev.el	4 Nov 2007 22:58:50 -0000	1.60
+++ abbrev.el	5 Nov 2007 04:28:02 -0000
@@ -825,7 +825,7 @@
 Presumes that `standard-output' points to `current-buffer'."
   (unless (or (null (symbol-value sym)) (abbrev-get sym :system))
     (insert "    (")
-    (prin1 name)
+    (prin1 sym)
     (insert " ")
     (prin1 (symbol-value sym))
     (insert " ")