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23.0.60; `talk' does not work

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

From: David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.0.60; `talk' does not work
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 10:39:41 +0200

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

M-x talk RET

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp #<terminal 1 on :0.0>)
  string-match("\\`[^:]*:[0-9]+\\(\\.[0-9]+\\)?\\'" #<terminal 1 on :0.0>)
  make-frame-on-display(#<terminal 1 on :0.0> ((name . "*talk-:0.0*")))
  talk-add-display(#<terminal 1 on :0.0>)
  talk()
  call-interactively(talk t nil)
  execute-extended-command(nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)


In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
 of 2008-05-02 on lola
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10400090
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/usr/local/emacs-21' '--without-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fno-crossjumping''

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
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Message

Minor modes in effect:
  mml-mode: t
  gnus-message-citation-mode: t
  TeX-PDF-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  minibuffer-electric-default-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t

Recent input:

M-x t a l k <return> 
M-x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g <return>

Recent messages:

Entering debugger...
Back to top level.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Message #10 received at 223-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 223-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; `talk' does not work
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 16:51:44 -0400

David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> M-x talk RET
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp #<terminal
> 1 on :0.0>)

Should be fixed now.  Thanks for the bug report.

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