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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.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: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 21:31:55 +0300

unarchive 32854
reopen 32854
merge 36774 32854
thanks

> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 20:46:31 +0100
> From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
> Cc: 32854 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, control <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 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, 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?

Thanks.

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