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last-coding-system-used may be nil in load-with-code-conversion

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: domq <at> google.com (Dominique Quatravaux)
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: last-coding-system-used may be nil in load-with-code-conversion
Date: Tue,  7 Oct 2008 15:21:52 +0200 (CEST)

  Putting the following in one's .emacs causes Emacs to crash on startup:

  (setq file-coding-system-alist nil)
  (load "/dev/null")

  This happens because mule.el wrongly assumes that last-coding-system-used
  cannot be null on line 84.

In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2008-09-05 on vernadsky, modified by Ubuntu
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10400090
configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs22:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/22.2/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/22.2/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/22.2/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=athena' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g -Wl,--as-needed' 'CPPFLAGS=''

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: en_US.utf-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: 1

Message #10 received at 1106 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: domq <at> google.com (Dominique Quatravaux)
Cc: 1106 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: last-coding-system-used may be nil in load-with-code-conversion
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:34:47 -0400

> Putting the following in one's .emacs causes Emacs to crash on
> startup:
> 
> (setq file-coding-system-alist nil)
> (load "/dev/null")
>
> This happens because mule.el wrongly assumes that
> last-coding-system-used cannot be null on line 84.
>
> In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
>  of 2008-09-05 on vernadsky, modified by Ubuntu

I can't reproduce the crash with Emacs 22.2.  Maybe it's due to a Debian
change?

Could you check if the crash happens with a vanille Emacs 22.2
downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ ?

Also, does the crash happen with Emacs CVS (or the Debian emacs-snapshot
package)?

Thanks.

Message #15 received at 1106 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Dominique Quatravaux" <domq <at> google.com>
To: "Chong Yidong" <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 1106 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: last-coding-system-used may be nil in load-with-code-conversion
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:07:01 +0200

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com> wrote:
> Also, does the crash happen with Emacs CVS (or the Debian emacs-snapshot
> package)?

Cannot reproduce with emacs-snapshot 1:20081005-1 from
http://emacs.orebokech.com/ ; I will investigate further and report to
Ubuntu maintainers if appropriate. Please close the bug.


-- 
  Dominique Quatravaux
  +41 79 609 40 72

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