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: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Evan Aad <oddeveneven <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#32854: closed (Re: bug#32854: Error upon starting Emacs from
 macOS Mojave's Terminal: "Failed to initialize color list unarchiver")
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 12:53:02 +0000

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Your bug report

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

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 32854 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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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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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

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