desktop package fails restoring stuff

[David Kastrup]

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and the precise symptoms of the bug:

When I restart an Emacs which had some draft buffers open, I get the
following:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Unable to find the `mhparam' command")
  signal(error ("Unable to find the `mhparam' command"))
  error("Unable to find the `mhparam' command")
  mh-find-progs()
  mh-find-path()
  mh-letter-mode()
  set-auto-mode()
  normal-mode(t)
  after-find-file(nil t)
  find-file-noselect-1(#<buffer 370> "~/News/drafts/drafts/370" nil nil 
"~/News/drafts/drafts/370" (192619 14849))
  find-file-noselect("/home/dak/News/drafts/drafts/370")
  desktop-buffer-file()
  desktop-create-buffer(206 "/home/dak/News/drafts/drafts/370" "370" 
mh-letter-mode nil 1 (nil nil) nil nil ((buffer-file-coding-system . 
emacs-mule-unix)))
  eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/dak/.emacs.desktop" nil t)
  ;;; Reading at buffer position 140853
  load-with-code-conversion("/home/dak/.emacs.desktop" 
"/home/dak/.emacs.desktop" t t)
  load("/home/dak/.emacs.desktop" t t t)
  desktop-read()
  (progn (desktop-read))
  (if desktop-save-mode (progn (desktop-read)))
  (when desktop-save-mode (desktop-read))
  (if (member key command-line-args) (delete key command-line-args) (when 
desktop-save-mode (desktop-read)))
  (let ((key "--no-desktop")) (if (member key command-line-args) (delete key 
command-line-args) (when desktop-save-mode ...)))
  (lambda nil (let (...) (if ... ... ...)))()
  run-hooks(after-init-hook)
  command-line()
  normal-top-level()


I never even used mh: I always do my message compositing in gnus
message mode instead.

In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.19 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.2.1)
 of 2004-04-01 on lola.goethe.zz
configured using `configure '--prefix=/usr/local/emacs-21' '--with-gtk''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Debugger

Minor modes in effect:
  auto-compression-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  iswitchb-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
M-x r e p o r t - e m a <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Loading /home/dak/tex/bigfoot/auto/paper.el (source)...done
Applying style hooks... done
Note: file is write protected [2 times]
Applying style hooks... done
Loading mh-comp...
Loading mh-identity...done
Loading mh-comp...done
Loading debug...done
Entering debugger...
Loading emacsbug...done

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum