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25.2; Problem with find-file-noselect

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From: Live System User <nyc4bos <at> aol.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: nyc4bos <at> aol.com
Subject: 25.2; Problem with find-file-noselect
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 14:42:14 -0400

Hi,

        I experienced a problem with `find-file-noselect`.

        The partion where my /home directory is mounted became
        unrelatedly readonly.

        When I tried to visit a file, readonly "C-x C-r"
        `(find-file-read-only),` I got the following
        *Backtrace* (see below).

`       Executing `(find-file-noselect)` and `(file-truemame)`
        interactively yeilds the expected reults:

                M-: (find-file-noselect "~/dt.el" nil nil t)
                #<buffer dt.el>

                [I don't get the "(wrong-type-argument arrayp nil)"
                error as in the *Backtrace]

                M-: (file-truename "~/dt.el")
                "/home/liveuser/dt.el"

        I realize that this is an unusal circumstance but peraps
        there is some way that Emacs could be able to visit a file
        in readonly-mode when the underlying filesystem has become
        readonly.

        Thanks.

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument arrayp nil)
  file-truename(nil)
  find-file-noselect-1(#<buffer dt.el<2>> "~/dt.el" nil nil "~/dt.el" (6637 64770))
  find-file-noselect("~/dt.el" nil nil t)
  find-file("~/dt.el" t)
  find-file--read-only(find-file "~/dt.el" t)
  find-file-read-only("~/dt.el" t)
  funcall-interactively(find-file-read-only "~/dt.el" t)
  call-interactively(find-file-read-only nil nil)
  command-execute(find-file-read-only)




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Message #8 received at 28655 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Live System User <nyc4bos <at> aol.com>
Cc: 28655 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28655: 25.2; Problem with find-file-noselect
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 15:19:10 -0500

Live System User wrote:

>         The partion where my /home directory is mounted became
>         unrelatedly readonly.
>
>         When I tried to visit a file, readonly "C-x C-r"
>         `(find-file-read-only),` I got the following
>         *Backtrace* (see below).
[...]
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument arrayp nil)
>   file-truename(nil)
>   find-file-noselect-1(#<buffer dt.el<2>> "~/dt.el" nil nil "~/dt.el" (6637 64770))
>   find-file-noselect("~/dt.el" nil nil t)
>   find-file("~/dt.el" t)
>   find-file--read-only(find-file "~/dt.el" t)
>   find-file-read-only("~/dt.el" t)
>   funcall-interactively(find-file-read-only "~/dt.el" t)
>   call-interactively(find-file-read-only nil nil)
>   command-execute(find-file-read-only)

I can't reproduce this. I tried with:

mount -t tmpfs -o size=10m tmpfs /mnt/
HOME=/mnt emacs-25.2 -Q &
...
mount -r -o remount /mnt/

and C-x C-r continues to work fine.

The above backtrace isn't detailed enough to debug this issue.
I can only guess that buffer-file-name somehow became nil.
How, I have no idea.

Message #11 received at 28655 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Live System User <nyc4bos <at> aol.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 28655 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28655: 25.2; Problem with find-file-noselect
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 00:21:48 -0500

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Live System User wrote:
>
>>         The partion where my /home directory is mounted became
>>         unrelatedly readonly.
>>
>>         When I tried to visit a file, readonly "C-x C-r"
>>         `(find-file-read-only),` I got the following
>>         *Backtrace* (see below).
> [...]
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument arrayp nil)
>>   file-truename(nil)
>>   find-file-noselect-1(#<buffer dt.el<2>> "~/dt.el" nil nil "~/dt.el" (6637 64770))
>>   find-file-noselect("~/dt.el" nil nil t)
>>   find-file("~/dt.el" t)
>>   find-file--read-only(find-file "~/dt.el" t)
>>   find-file-read-only("~/dt.el" t)
>>   funcall-interactively(find-file-read-only "~/dt.el" t)
>>   call-interactively(find-file-read-only nil nil)
>>   command-execute(find-file-read-only)
>
> I can't reproduce this. I tried with:
>
> mount -t tmpfs -o size=10m tmpfs /mnt/
> HOME=/mnt emacs-25.2 -Q &
> ...
> mount -r -o remount /mnt/
>
> and C-x C-r continues to work fine.
>
> The above backtrace isn't detailed enough to debug this issue.
> I can only guess that buffer-file-name somehow became nil.
> How, I have no idea.

 As the process is now gone, no additional info is no longer
 available, I guess this bug report can be closed.

 Thanks for looking into this.

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