Re: Error on startup with X-windows only: Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Emmanuel Kowalski wrote:

> Since about two days ago, I haven't been able to make the CVS version 
> of emacs run with windowing system

Please send reports about problems in the CVS versions to 
address@hidden (if you use M-x report-emacs-bug RET, Emacs 
will do that automatically for you).  Please follow-up to 
emacs-pretest-bug only.

> This was solved by using `make bootstrap'. However, the resulting emacs
> only works with -nw :
> 
>       root:emacs/ # ./src/emacs -nw
> 
> but
>       root:emacs/ # ./src/emacs 
>       root:emacs/ # Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil

Are some of your Lisp files compressed with gzip?

> I'd be happy for any suggestions on how to debug / solve this problem (as
> the previous poster, I have no experience debugging emacs with GDB...)

Run Emacs under GDB (start GDB in the src directory), put a breakpoint in 
Fsignal, and when it breaks, type these two commands:

        (gdb) bt
        (gdb) xbacktrace

Then post (to emacs-pretest-bug) everything that GDB prints.