directory-files bug

[Joakim Verona]

Symptoms:


(directory-files "/home/joakim/Plans" t "^[^.]" t)

randomly dies with this trace:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range 5 15)
  utf-8-post-read-conversion(10)
  directory-files("/home/joakim/Plans" t "^[^.]" t)
  eval((directory-files "/home/joakim/Plans" t "^[^.]" t))
  eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp)

this happens in a pretty recent emacs, but I suffered from the problem
about 2 weeks.

I tried to reduce it to a small set of directories with swedish utf-8
names, but the bug doesnt happen then:

  /tmp/tstx:
  total used in directory 36 available 22831096
  drwxrwxr-x   2 joakim joakim  4096 Jan  3 19:06 å
  drwxrwxr-x   2 joakim joakim  4096 Jan  3 19:06 ä
  drwxrwxr-x   2 joakim joakim  4096 Jan  3 19:06 ö

theres about 500 files in the dir which randomly causes the problem.

Theres a few files with the swedish character "ö" in it, but not much.

(directory-files "/usr/lib" t "^[^.]" t)

also provokes the problem, even quicker for me.

I cant find any odd characters in the filenames in /usr/lib.

sadly the problem doesnt happen with:
emacs -nw --no-init.

so I guess the problem will be pretty hard to find. 

Ill be happy to supply any further information that can help find the error.

/Joakim


In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.4.14)
 of 2005-01-03 on naru.home
configured using `configure '--with-gtk' '--with-x' '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg' 
'--with-tiff' '--with-gif' '--with-png' 'CFLAGS=-O3''

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.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

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  show-paren-mode: t
  erc-truncate-mode: t
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  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
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