Subject: bug#24931: 25.1.50; recentf breaks M-x tetris scoring

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 10:36:40 -0500

tags 24931 unreproducible
quit

Robert Marshall <[email-masked]> writes:

> With emacs -Q
> evaluate
> (require 'recentf)
> (recentf-mode t)
>
> and then M-x tetris
>
> just let the blocks pile up to finish quickly, when it completes I
> get the message
>
>    File exists, but cannot be read
>
> when it tries to access the score file and no score gets added - if it
> was going to do so. Without those recentf lines the score file is read
> successfully.
>
> The issue doesn't appear to be dependent upon
> ~/.emacs.d/games/tetris-scores in the recentf list
>
> Robert
>
> In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.6 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9)
>  of 2016-09-03 built on robert-new-desktop
> Repository revision: 2ad16e4bf9b43c169bcfa1e6240584488fbc3d78
> Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11804000
> System Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS

Works for me, scrore shows up with no problems.

Can you get a backtrace if you M-x toggle-debug-on-error?

In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.8 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2016-11-06 built on zony
Repository revision: 0b6b8151186e2d8d48aff8182a66aee21a6edb53
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11804000
Configured using:
 'configure --cache-file=../debug-config.cache 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3
 -march=native' --enable-checking=yes,glyphs
 --enable-check-lisp-object-type MAKEINFO=makeinfo-4.13a
 --with-x-toolkit=lucid --without-toolkit-scroll-bars --with-gif=no
 --with-jpeg=no'