Unbound variable: strings=?

[Caleb Herbert]

Hi,

I cannot start Freetalk.

Loading dictionary [/usr/share/dict/words]... [0] words
Backtrace:
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  1752:10  5 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ #:unwind-for-type _)
In unknown file:
           4 (apply-smob/0 #<thunk 7ff414713300>)
In ice-9/eval.scm:
   279:15  3 (_ #f)
   196:27  2 (_ #f)
   223:20  1 (proc #<directory (guile-user) 7ff414716c80>)
In unknown file:
           0 (%resolve-variable (7 . strings=?) #<directory 
(guile-user) 7ff…>)

ERROR: In procedure %resolve-variable:
Unbound variable: strings=?

I used the configuration provided in the manual.

https://www.gnu.org/software/freetalk/manual/html_node/freetalk_002escm.html#freetalk_002escm

I originally tried fetching the passphrase from Pass, but the error 
persisted when I put my password directly into freetalk.scm.

(ft-set-password! (system "pass show Chat/csh.snikket.chat"))

Thanks,

Caleb