GNU bug report logs - #32854
Error upon starting Emacs from macOS Mojave's Terminal: "Failed to initialize color list unarchiver"

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From: Evan Aad <oddeveneven <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Error upon starting Emacs from macOS Mojave's Terminal: "Failed to
 initialize color list unarchiver"
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 17:23:22 +0300

Ever since I upgraded my macOS to the latest version, 10.14 Mojave, a
couple days ago (which I followed by performing a 'brew upgrade' in
the Terminal), whenever I start Emacs from the terminal, I get the
following error message.

Failed to initialize color list unarchiver: Error
Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4864 "*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver
_initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: non-keyed
archive cannot be decoded by NSKeyedUnarchiver"
UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver
_initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: non-keyed
archive cannot be decoded by NSKeyedUnarchiver}

I never encountered this message before. Despite the error message,
Emacs starts opens, and seems to be functioning properly.

GNU Emacs 26.1  (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin17.5.0, NS appkit-1561.40
Version 10.13.4 (Build 17E202))  of 2018-05-31

Message #8 received at 32854 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Evan Aad <oddeveneven <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 32854 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, control <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32854: Error upon starting Emacs from macOS Mojave's
 Terminal: "Failed to initialize color list unarchiver"
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 20:46:31 +0100

close 32854 26.2
stop

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 05:23:22PM +0300, Evan Aad wrote:
> Ever since I upgraded my macOS to the latest version, 10.14 Mojave, a
> couple days ago (which I followed by performing a 'brew upgrade' in
> the Terminal), whenever I start Emacs from the terminal, I get the
> following error message.
> 
> Failed to initialize color list unarchiver: Error
> Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4864 "*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver
> _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: non-keyed
> archive cannot be decoded by NSKeyedUnarchiver"
> UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver
> _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: non-keyed
> archive cannot be decoded by NSKeyedUnarchiver}
> 
> I never encountered this message before. Despite the error message,
> Emacs starts opens, and seems to be functioning properly.
> 
> GNU Emacs 26.1  (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin17.5.0, NS appkit-1561.40
> Version 10.13.4 (Build 17E202))  of 2018-05-31

Thanks for reporting this. I’ve just pushed a fix to emacs-26, so I
expect that will make its way through to homebrew soon.
-- 
Alan Third

Message #21 received at 32854 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 32854 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, oddeveneven <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#32854: Error upon starting Emacs from macOS Mojave's
 Terminal: "Failed to initialize color list unarchiver"
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 08:02:24 +0100

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 09:31:55PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 05:23:22PM +0300, Evan Aad wrote:
> > > Ever since I upgraded my macOS to the latest version, 10.14 Mojave, a
> > > couple days ago (which I followed by performing a 'brew upgrade' in
> > > the Terminal), whenever I start Emacs from the terminal, I get the
> > > following error message.
> > > 
> > > Failed to initialize color list unarchiver: Error
> > > Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4864 "*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver
> > > _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: non-keyed
> > > archive cannot be decoded by NSKeyedUnarchiver"
> > > UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver
> > > _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: non-keyed
> > > archive cannot be decoded by NSKeyedUnarchiver}
> > > 
> > > I never encountered this message before. Despite the error message,
> > > Emacs starts opens, and seems to be functioning properly.
> > > 
> > > GNU Emacs 26.1  (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin17.5.0, NS appkit-1561.40
> > > Version 10.13.4 (Build 17E202))  of 2018-05-31
> > 
> > Thanks for reporting this. I’ve just pushed a fix to emacs-26, so I
> > expect that will make its way through to homebrew soon.
> 
> Alan, what commit fixed this bug?  I didn't find any reference to
> bug#32854 in the Git log around Sep 28, 2018, nor any changes that
> sounded like they were fixing some color-related issue, neither on the
> emacs-26 branch nor on master.  Did you perhaps forget to push the
> change?  Or did I miss something?

The original discussion about it happened in emacs devel so there was
no bug number. The commit is:

    9ad0f1d15c06eb07dfbd9bd3e3b8a0d747942152

and if I’m reading the tags correctly it is definitely in Emacs 26.2.

What I’d suggest to Evan is to delete the colour file, as it’s
possible Emacs 26.1 has left a corrupt version:

    rm $HOME/Library/Colors/Emacs.clr
    
Then restart Emacs twice. The first time it will recreate the file and
probably not emit any error, the second time should let us know if the
error has gone.

-- 
Alan Third

Message #24 received at 32854 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Evan Aad <oddeveneven <at> gmail.com>
To: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
Cc: 32854 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#32854: Error upon starting Emacs from macOS Mojave's
 Terminal: "Failed to initialize color list unarchiver"
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:51:25 +0300

Thanks. This solved the problem.
I apologize once more for my rudeness. I'm ashamed of myself. I was
waiting for almost a year for this bug fix, and when the bug persisted
even after the upgrade, and thinking that I would have to wait another
year for this to be fixed, I was very annoyed. However, this is no
excuse. I hope you forgive me.

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 10:02 AM Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 09:31:55PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 05:23:22PM +0300, Evan Aad wrote:
> > > > Ever since I upgraded my macOS to the latest version, 10.14 Mojave, a
> > > > couple days ago (which I followed by performing a 'brew upgrade' in
> > > > the Terminal), whenever I start Emacs from the terminal, I get the
> > > > following error message.
> > > >
> > > > Failed to initialize color list unarchiver: Error
> > > > Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4864 "*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver
> > > > _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: non-keyed
> > > > archive cannot be decoded by NSKeyedUnarchiver"
> > > > UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver
> > > > _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: non-keyed
> > > > archive cannot be decoded by NSKeyedUnarchiver}
> > > >
> > > > I never encountered this message before. Despite the error message,
> > > > Emacs starts opens, and seems to be functioning properly.
> > > >
> > > > GNU Emacs 26.1  (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin17.5.0, NS appkit-1561.40
> > > > Version 10.13.4 (Build 17E202))  of 2018-05-31
> > >
> > > Thanks for reporting this. I’ve just pushed a fix to emacs-26, so I
> > > expect that will make its way through to homebrew soon.
> >
> > Alan, what commit fixed this bug?  I didn't find any reference to
> > bug#32854 in the Git log around Sep 28, 2018, nor any changes that
> > sounded like they were fixing some color-related issue, neither on the
> > emacs-26 branch nor on master.  Did you perhaps forget to push the
> > change?  Or did I miss something?
>
> The original discussion about it happened in emacs devel so there was
> no bug number. The commit is:
>
>     9ad0f1d15c06eb07dfbd9bd3e3b8a0d747942152
>
> and if I’m reading the tags correctly it is definitely in Emacs 26.2.
>
> What I’d suggest to Evan is to delete the colour file, as it’s
> possible Emacs 26.1 has left a corrupt version:
>
>     rm $HOME/Library/Colors/Emacs.clr
>
> Then restart Emacs twice. The first time it will recreate the file and
> probably not emit any error, the second time should let us know if the
> error has gone.
>
> --
> Alan Third

Message #29 received at 32854-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Evan Aad <oddeveneven <at> gmail.com>
Cc: alan <at> idiocy.org, 32854-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32854: Error upon starting Emacs from macOS Mojave's
 Terminal: "Failed to initialize color list unarchiver"
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 15:51:58 +0300

> From: Evan Aad <oddeveneven <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:51:25 +0300
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 32854 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Thanks. This solved the problem.

Thanks for testing, I'm therefore closing this bug report.

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