bug#47642: 28.0.50; (error "Selection owner couldn't convert" UTF8_STRING)

[Jean Louis]

I never had this error. It now happens in the longer running instance,
it started suddenly. I don;t remember using any chars outside of
ASCII. It is invoked when I pres C-k or C-y -- it started mysteriously
and then after a while it stopped.

I cannot replicate it in 'emacs -Q'.

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Selection owner couldn't convert" 
UTF8_STRING)
  x-get-selection-internal(CLIPBOARD UTF8_STRING nil nil)
  #f(compiled-function (selection-symbol target-type &optional time-stamp 
terminal) #<bytecode -0x8b1a39ee5967b2d>)(CLIPBOARD UTF8_STRING)
  apply(#f(compiled-function (selection-symbol target-type &optional time-stamp 
terminal) #<bytecode -0x8b1a39ee5967b2d>) (CLIPBOARD UTF8_STRING))
  gui-backend-get-selection(CLIPBOARD UTF8_STRING)
  gui-get-selection(CLIPBOARD UTF8_STRING)
  gui--selection-value-internal(CLIPBOARD)
  gui-selection-value()
  kill-new("0786111111 contact-JIJI ")
  kill-region(12 36)
  kill-line(nil)
  funcall-interactively(kill-line nil)
  call-interactively(kill-line nil nil)
  command-execute(kill-line)
  read-string("Last name: " "0786111111 contact-JIJI " nil nil)
  (if area (read-from-buffer value (format "%s ID %s" column id) mode) 
(read-string comment value nil nil))
  (cond ((member column columns-to-choose-contact) (let* ((query 
(read-from-minibuffer "Find person: ")) (id (string-to-number (cf-search-id 
query)))) id)) ((and foreign-key (string= type "integer")) (if (member 
foreign-table foreign-tables-to-ignore) (read-number comment value) 
(rcd-db-combo-selection foreign-table))) ((string= type "integer") (read-number 
comment value)) ((string-match "numeric" type) (read-number comment value)) 
((string= type "text") (if area (read-from-buffer value (format "%s ID %s" 
column id) mode) (read-string comment value nil nil))) ((string= type "date") 
(read-string comment value nil value)) ((string-match "varying" type) 
(read-string comment value nil value)) ((string-match "array" type) 
(read-string comment (if value value "{}") nil value)) ((string= type 
"timestamp without time zone") (read-string comment value nil value)) ((string= 
type "timestamp with time zone") (read-string comment value nil value)) 
((string= type "boolean") (read-boolean comment value)))
  (let ((new-value (cond ((member column columns-to-choose-contact) (let* 
((query ...) (id ...)) id)) ((and foreign-key (string= type "integer")) (if 
(member foreign-table foreign-tables-to-ignore) (read-number comment value) 
(rcd-db-combo-selection foreign-table))) ((string= type "integer") (read-number 
comment value)) ((string-match "numeric" type) (read-number comment value)) 
((string= type "text") (if area (read-from-buffer value (format "%s ID %s" 
column id) mode) (read-string comment value nil nil))) ((string= type "date") 
(read-string comment value nil value)) ((string-match "varying" type) 
(read-string comment value nil value)) ((string-match "array" type) 
(read-string comment (if value value "{}") nil value)) ((string= type 
"timestamp without time zone") (read-string comment value nil value)) ((string= 
type "timestamp with time zone") (read-string comment value nil value)) 
((string= type "boolean") (read-boolean comment value))))) (rcd-db-update-entry 
table column id new-value *cf*))
  (let* ((type (rcd-db-column-type table column *cf*)) (comment 
(rcd-db-column-comment table column *cf*)) (foreign 
(rcd-db-foreign-table-column table column *cf*)) (value (rcd-db-get-entry table 
column id *cf*)) (size (if (eq (type-of value) 'string) (length value) nil)) 
(foreign-key (if foreign t nil)) (foreign-table (or (car foreign) nil)) (area 
(or (rcd/column-area-p table column *cf*) (and size (> size 80)))) (comment 
(append-colon-space comment))) (let ((new-value (cond ((member column 
columns-to-choose-contact) (let* (... ...) id)) ((and foreign-key (string= type 
"integer")) (if (member foreign-table foreign-tables-to-ignore) (read-number 
comment value) (rcd-db-combo-selection foreign-table))) ((string= type 
"integer") (read-number comment value)) ((string-match "numeric" type) 
(read-number comment value)) ((string= type "text") (if area (read-from-buffer 
value ... mode) (read-string comment value nil nil))) ((string= type "date") 
(read-string comment value nil value)) ((string-match "varying" type) 
(read-string comment value nil value)) ((string-match "array" type) 
(read-string comment (if value value "{}") nil value)) ((string= type 
"timestamp without time zone") (read-string comment value nil value)) ((string= 
type "timestamp with time zone") (read-string comment value nil value)) 
((string= type "boolean") (read-boolean comment value))))) (rcd-db-update-entry 
table column id new-value *cf*)))
  rcd/edit-entry("people" "people_lastname" 359712)
  (let* ((id (tabulated-list-get-id)) (id (split-string id ":")) (table (car 
id)) (column (car (cdr id))) (id (car (cdr (cdr id)))) (id (string-to-number 
id)) (point (point))) (rcd/edit-entry table column id) (kill-this-buffer) 
(rcd-db-tabulated-table-edit table id) (goto-char point))
  rcd-db-tabulated-edit-value()
  funcall-interactively(rcd-db-tabulated-edit-value)
  call-interactively(rcd-db-tabulated-edit-value nil nil)
  command-execute(rcd-db-tabulated-edit-value)



In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 4, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 
1.17.4, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2021-04-05 built on protected.rcdrun.com
Repository revision: a44d423a5aaf97790ce95350a38590fbb17b3220
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12010000
Configured using:
 'configure --prefix=/package/text/emacs --with-x-toolkit=lucid'

Configured features:
ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG
JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY
PDUMPER PNG RSVG SOUND THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS X11 XAW3D XDBE
XIM XPM LUCID ZLIB

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=exwm-xim
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-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
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs
rfc822 mml mml-sec epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail
rmail-loaddefs auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core cl-macs
eieio-loaddefs password-cache json map text-property-search time-date
subr-x seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv mm-decode mm-bodies
mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader cl-loaddefs
cl-lib sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils
iso-transl 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 easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock
font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer 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
cl-preloaded nadvice button loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files
window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages
mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind
inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting
cairo x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 53549 8043)
 (symbols 48 7031 1)
 (strings 32 19837 1894)
 (string-bytes 1 640374)
 (vectors 16 13037)
 (vector-slots 8 174775 11503)
 (floats 8 23 51)
 (intervals 56 406 44)
 (buffers 992 11))

-- 
Thanks,
Jean Louis

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