From unknown Sun Jun 22 17:14:58 2025 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Subject: bug#38155: 27.0.50; crash in write-region Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 18:02:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 38155 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: 38155@debbugs.gnu.org X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.15733225075738 (code B ref -1); Sat, 09 Nov 2019 18:02:01 +0000 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Nov 2019 18:01:47 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50254 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iTV3T-0001UU-97 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2019 13:01:47 -0500 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]:47959) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iTV3Q-0001UL-Na for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2019 13:01:45 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36419) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iTV3O-00083t-Vc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2019 13:01:44 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42593) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iTV3O-00083l-E3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2019 13:01:42 -0500 Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iTV3N-0007tf-CH; Sat, 09 Nov 2019 13:01:41 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 From: Richard Stallman Message-Id: Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 13:01:41 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) I had a zip file in a buffer, after M-x base64-decode-region, and tried to write it into a file. I got this error. Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil) min(nil) apply(min nil) select-safe-coding-system-interactively(1 34936 (raw-text no-conversion) (no-conversion-multibyte) nil raw-text) select-safe-coding-system(1 34936 utf-8-unix nil "/home/rms/foo.zip") write-region(1 34936 "~/foo.zip" nil nil nil 1) In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.30) of 2019-10-02 built on freetop Repository revision: 77207ca84184fc01428154c318b21c70ad150c01 Repository branch: master System Description: Trisquel GNU/Linux Flidas (8.0) Recent messages: Mark set Saved text from "UEsDBBQAAAAIAPErLU9uYDaVeIcAAI1eAQA0AAAA" Mark set [3 times] File /home/rms/foo.zip already exists; overwrite anyway? (y or n) y apply: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil Debug on Error enabled globally File /home/rms/foo.zip already exists; overwrite anyway? (y or n) y Entering debugger... Mark set Back to top level Configured using: 'configure 'CFLAGS=-g -O0' --with-gnutls=ifavailable' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK2 X11 XDBE XIM THREADS PDUMPER GMP Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t gpm-mouse-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t abbrev-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow emacsbug help-fns radix-tree cl-print debug backtrace find-func url-http url url-proxy url-privacy url-expand url-history mailcap url-auth url-gw nsm url-methods sh-script smie executable info battery quail cal-move cal-menu calendar cal-loaddefs help-mode thingatpt grep rect mule-util misearch multi-isearch dired-aux epa-mail shell pcomplete shr url-cookie url-domsuf url-util svg xml dom dabbrev rmailsum rmailkwd rmailout qp mailalias sendmail rmailmm message rmc puny format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec epa epg epg-config gnus-util text-property-search time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader mail-parse rfc2231 rmail rmail-loaddefs rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils dired dired-loaddefs t-mouse term/linux view derived paren cus-start cus-load advice finder-inf package easymenu browse-url url-handlers url-parse auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core cl-macs eieio-loaddefs password-cache json subr-x map url-vars seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile compile comint ansi-color ring cconv cl-loaddefs cl-lib tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 404841 95478) (symbols 48 12765 29) (strings 32 50200 9227) (string-bytes 1 1783112) (vectors 16 31232) (vector-slots 8 1140551 232768) (floats 8 69 267) (intervals 56 96369 4434) (buffers 1000 175) (heap 1024 31593 2196)) [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] -- Dr Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) From unknown Sun Jun 22 17:14:58 2025 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.505 (Entity 5.505) X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org From: help-debbugs@gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System) To: rms@gnu.org Subject: bug#38155: closed (Re: bug#38155: 27.0.50; crash in write-region) Message-ID: References: <83imns96nk.fsf@gnu.org> X-Gnu-PR-Message: they-closed 38155 X-Gnu-PR-Package: emacs Reply-To: 38155@debbugs.gnu.org Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 19:45:01 +0000 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_1573328701-15581-1" This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1573328701-15581-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Your bug report #38155: 27.0.50; crash in write-region 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 38155@debbugs.gnu.org. --=20 38155: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D38155 GNU Bug Tracking System Contact help-debbugs@gnu.org with problems ------------=_1573328701-15581-1 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: (at 38155-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Nov 2019 19:44:41 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50297 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iTWf3-00042b-0o for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2019 14:44:41 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35904) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iTWf1-00042M-2v for 38155-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2019 14:44:39 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43614) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iTWet-00053o-TZ for 38155-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2019 14:44:31 -0500 Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2816 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iTWek-0006VC-K5; Sat, 09 Nov 2019 14:44:24 -0500 Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 21:44:15 +0200 Message-Id: <83imns96nk.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Sat, 09 Nov 2019 13:01:41 -0500) Subject: Re: bug#38155: 27.0.50; crash in write-region References: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 38155-done Cc: 38155-done@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) > From: Richard Stallman > Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 13:01:41 -0500 > > > I had a zip file in a buffer, after M-x base64-decode-region, > and tried to write it into a file. I got this error. > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil) > min(nil) > apply(min nil) > select-safe-coding-system-interactively(1 34936 (raw-text no-conversion) (no-conversion-multibyte) nil raw-text) > select-safe-coding-system(1 34936 utf-8-unix nil "/home/rms/foo.zip") > write-region(1 34936 "~/foo.zip" nil nil nil 1) Thanks, fixed. ------------=_1573328701-15581-1 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Nov 2019 18:01:47 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50254 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iTV3T-0001UU-97 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2019 13:01:47 -0500 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]:47959) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iTV3Q-0001UL-Na for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2019 13:01:45 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36419) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iTV3O-00083t-Vc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2019 13:01:44 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42593) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iTV3O-00083l-E3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2019 13:01:42 -0500 Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iTV3N-0007tf-CH; Sat, 09 Nov 2019 13:01:41 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 From: Richard Stallman To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Subject: 27.0.50; crash in write-region Message-Id: Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 13:01:41 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) I had a zip file in a buffer, after M-x base64-decode-region, and tried to write it into a file. I got this error. Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil) min(nil) apply(min nil) select-safe-coding-system-interactively(1 34936 (raw-text no-conversion) (no-conversion-multibyte) nil raw-text) select-safe-coding-system(1 34936 utf-8-unix nil "/home/rms/foo.zip") write-region(1 34936 "~/foo.zip" nil nil nil 1) In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.30) of 2019-10-02 built on freetop Repository revision: 77207ca84184fc01428154c318b21c70ad150c01 Repository branch: master System Description: Trisquel GNU/Linux Flidas (8.0) Recent messages: Mark set Saved text from "UEsDBBQAAAAIAPErLU9uYDaVeIcAAI1eAQA0AAAA" Mark set [3 times] File /home/rms/foo.zip already exists; overwrite anyway? (y or n) y apply: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil Debug on Error enabled globally File /home/rms/foo.zip already exists; overwrite anyway? (y or n) y Entering debugger... Mark set Back to top level Configured using: 'configure 'CFLAGS=-g -O0' --with-gnutls=ifavailable' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK2 X11 XDBE XIM THREADS PDUMPER GMP Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t gpm-mouse-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t abbrev-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow emacsbug help-fns radix-tree cl-print debug backtrace find-func url-http url url-proxy url-privacy url-expand url-history mailcap url-auth url-gw nsm url-methods sh-script smie executable info battery quail cal-move cal-menu calendar cal-loaddefs help-mode thingatpt grep rect mule-util misearch multi-isearch dired-aux epa-mail shell pcomplete shr url-cookie url-domsuf url-util svg xml dom dabbrev rmailsum rmailkwd rmailout qp mailalias sendmail rmailmm message rmc puny format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec epa epg epg-config gnus-util text-property-search time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader mail-parse rfc2231 rmail rmail-loaddefs rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils dired dired-loaddefs t-mouse term/linux view derived paren cus-start cus-load advice finder-inf package easymenu browse-url url-handlers url-parse auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core cl-macs eieio-loaddefs password-cache json subr-x map url-vars seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile compile comint ansi-color ring cconv cl-loaddefs cl-lib tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 404841 95478) (symbols 48 12765 29) (strings 32 50200 9227) (string-bytes 1 1783112) (vectors 16 31232) (vector-slots 8 1140551 232768) (floats 8 69 267) (intervals 56 96369 4434) (buffers 1000 175) (heap 1024 31593 2196)) [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] -- Dr Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) ------------=_1573328701-15581-1--