================================================================ Dear Bug Team! Hi, If the env. variable LANG is not set, xemacs fails to load any of the init.el stuff or whatever you've asked it to load from the command line. It does run, but instead of what one asked it to do it just reports "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil". To duplicate this, just "unsetenv LANG" (or whatever the bash equivalent is) and try to run xemacs. Let LANG be whatever it should be, and things work no problem. Smells to me like you've got a "getenv(LANG)" call in there and are blindly using it to configure stuff, without first checking to see if the getenv() return value is valid. Alec Habig ahabig(a)umn.edu ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: Linux hammer2.fedora.redhat.com 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 #1 SMP Mon Sep 11 01:16:59 EDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux ./configure '--build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-system-packages=/usr/share/xemacs' '--without-msw' '--with-mule' '--with-clash-detection' '--with-database=no' '--without-ldap' '--without-postgresql' '--with-mail-locking=lockf' '--with-pop' '--without-hesiod' '--with-pdump' '--with-debug' '--with-error-checking=none' '--with-docdir=/usr/lib/xemacs-21.5-b27/doc' '--with-xfs' '--with-athena=next' '--with-menubars=lucid' '--with-widgets=athena' '--with-dialogs=athena' '--with-scrollbars=lucid' '--with-xim=xlib' '--without-wnn' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fsta! ck-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-strict-aliasing' 'build_alias=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' XEmacs 21.5-b27 "fiddleheads" configured for `i686-redhat-linux'. 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