(recentf-mode 1) aborts emacs

[Tassilo Horn]

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Hi,

since I updated my emacs checkout (head, not a branch) this morning my
emacs shuts down immediately after starting. This was due to a SIGABRT. I
commented out things in my ~/.emacs and found out that the line
(recentf-mode 1) causes this bug.

I made a backtrace with a ~/.emacs only containing the line

  (recentf-mode 1)

and did `gdb --args /usr/bin/emacs-22-cvs -Q -l .emacs'. The backtrace
is pasted here: http://paste.lisp.org/display/43790

The checkout I compiled yesterday morning (CEST) worked just fine.

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/usr/share/emacs/22.1.50/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.13)
 of 2007-07-02 on baldur
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10300000
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/usr' '--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu' 
'--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/share' 
'--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--program-suffix=-emacs-22-cvs' 
'--infodir=/usr/share/info/emacs-22-cvs' '--without-carbon' '--with-sound' 
'--with-x' '--with-xpm' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' '--with-jpeg' 
'--with-tiff' '--with-gif' '--with-png' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 
'--without-hesiod' '--with-gpm' '--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu' 
'build_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu' 
'CFLAGS=-march=i386 -O0 -pipe -g''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8
  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

Major mode: Group

Minor modes in effect:
  gnus-topic-mode: t
  gnus-undo-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  window-number-meta-mode: t
  window-number-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  which-function-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
y <down> <up> M-1 M-2 M-3 C-x 0 M-x t h - s e r <tab> 
s t <tab> <return> C-x 0 C-x 0 M-x g n u s <return> 
y M-x r e p <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
e m a <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> C-g 
C-g C-h a b u g $ <return> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> 
M-x r e p o r <tab> b <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Desktop lazily opening .gnus.el (8 remaining)...done
Desktop lazily opening main.org (7 remaining)...done
Desktop lazily opening private.org (6 remaining)...done
Desktop lazily opening remember-notes.org (5 remaining)...done
Desktop lazily opening uni.org (4 remaining)...done
Desktop lazily opening work.org (3 remaining)...done
Desktop lazily opening diary (2 remaining)...done
Desktop lazily opening diplomarbeit.org (1 remaining)...done
Lazy desktop load complete
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