I've attached a small C++ program that can be used to reproduce the issue. I compiled it like so g++ -g3 main.cc -o test-program Steps to reproduce: - emacs -Q - evaluate the forms: (require 'gdb-mi) (setq gdb-many-windows t) - M-x gdb with argument "gdb -i=mi /path/to/test-program" - Do "run" in the gdb command prompt - M-x gdb-io-interrupt Result: error message in minibuffer "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" (although the command executes normally). Furthermore, in this state any of the following will also cause the same message to flash: - doing M-x gud-break in the source buffer - toggling a breakpoint in the breakpoint buffer - probably others Although again none of the commands fail to execute properly. Root cause: In the function gdb-frame-handler the form: (setq gdb-selected-file (file-local-name (gdb-mi--field frame 'fullname))) causes the error message if gdb-mi--field returns nil. I don't know if this is an expected return value for that function or not. In any case, file-local-name signals the error in case of nil input. The file-local-name wrapping was introduced semi-recently with commit 019c70e731d0243ad3ea2d4ebb02dd4a343e868f. Thanks. ---------------------------------------- In GNU Emacs 28.0.60 (build 8, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30, cairo version 1.15.12) of 2021-11-30 built on san Repository revision: 30553d889d733613e8e5fd22358980baa7ee148e Repository branch: emacs-28 Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12011000 System Description: CentOS Linux 8 Configured using: 'configure --prefix=/home/snorgaard/emacs-master --with-cairo --with-dumping=pdumper --with-mailutils --with-json --with-x --with-xwidgets --with-native-compilation --enable-link-time-optimization 'CFLAGS=-g3 -O3 -mtune=native -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer'' Configured features: CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBSELINUX LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS X11 XDBE XIM XPM XWIDGETS GTK3 ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: en_DK.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: C++//l Minor modes in effect: gdb-many-windows: 1 tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t show-paren-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 indent-tabs-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t abbrev-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec epa derived epg rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs auth-source eieio eieio-core eieio-loaddefs password-cache json map text-property-search mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils time-date cc-mode cc-fonts cc-guess cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs comp comp-cstr warnings subr-x rx cl-macs cl-extra help-mode seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv gdb-mi cl-seq cl-loaddefs cl-lib gud easy-mmode comint ansi-color ring iso-transl tooltip eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode 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 lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer 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 emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray cl-preloaded nadvice button loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads xwidget-internal dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process native-compile emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 134661 11459) (symbols 48 10813 0) (strings 32 31925 1896) (string-bytes 1 1182054) (vectors 16 20650) (vector-slots 8 362625 14622) (floats 8 46 30) (intervals 56 365 3) (buffers 992 19))