bug#48531: Error on `Apply and Save` when using customize

[Mikhail P]

Greetings!

I started to see problems with customizing anything using M-x customize.

When I change something and then press Apply and Save I get an error. Attached is what I got in the trace when applying and saving debug-on-error .

Unfortunately I could not reproduce it with -Q because the feature Apply and Save becomes unavailable. However I could reproduce it without any .emacs file.

Below is what report-emacs-bug has generated. Thanks for any help.

-Mikhail

In GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.22, cairo version 1.17.3)
 of 2020-08-29 built on juergen
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12010000
System Description: Arch Linux

Recent messages:
Creating customization items ...78%
Loading url-util...done
Creating customization items ...done
Creating customization setup...done
To install your edits, invoke [State] and choose the Set operation
(New file)
Saving file /home/mikpom/.emacs...
Wrote /home/mikpom/.emacs
Entering debugger...
Making completion list... [4 times]

Configured using:
 'configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib
 --localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xft --with-wide-int
 --with-modules --with-cairo --with-harfbuzz 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64
 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now'

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY
INOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ M17N_FLT LIBOTF ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS LIBSYSTEMD JSON
PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Debugger

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-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
  buffer-read-only: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
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easy-mmode comint ansi-color ring edebug backtrace help-mode find-func
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mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image
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lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch
timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu
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
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custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind
inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting
cairo move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 110836 12650)
 (symbols 48 10470 1)
 (strings 32 28886 2083)
 (string-bytes 1 879796)
 (vectors 16 17077)
 (vector-slots 8 201036 11912)
 (floats 8 39 256)
 (intervals 56 1742 129)
 (buffers 1000 20))

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