Any hints or tips on how to debug an elusive timer error?

Any hints or tips on how to debug an elusive timer error?

[Live System User]

Hi,

   Does anybody have any hints or tips on how to debug
   an elusive timer error?

   I seem to periodically getting the error:

Error running timer ‘show-paren-function’: (wrong-type-argument stringp
t) [2 times]

   Although it is not readily reproducible I seem to notice
   it more when doing a "M-:" `eval-expression'.

   This is while not yet typing RET when pausing and/or continuing
   to type the elisp expression.
   
   Thanks.

Re: Any hints or tips on how to debug an elusive timer error?

[Jiege Chen]

Live System User <nyc4bos@aol.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    Does anybody have any hints or tips on how to debug
>    an elusive timer error?
> 
>    I seem to periodically getting the error:
> 
> Error running timer ‘show-paren-function’: (wrong-type-argument stringp
> t) [2 times]
> 
>    Although it is not readily reproducible I seem to notice
>    it more when doing a "M-:" `eval-expression'.
> 
>    This is while not yet typing RET when pausing and/or continuing
>    to type the elisp expression.
>    
>    Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> 

First, toggle debug on error. You will get the stacktrace when the error
occurs.
You can post the stacktrace here in the list.
Then, if you found a lot of bytecode around, try to remove all .elc in your
.emacs.d/elpa and load the packages again (for example, restart emacs).
If the bytecode comes from elsewhere, you may need to load them as .el
(setting 'load-suffixes' does work while it may lead to spurious 'Recursive
load'
error).

-- 
Jiegec