Aloha all, I pulled the latest org-mode this morning and got an error starting emacs afterwards that appears to be tied to org-babel-load-file. I ran git bisect and ended up here: 131441dbd2d16e92f863864ed536f37fcd4a85fc is first bad commit commit 131441dbd2d16e92f863864ed536f37fcd4a85fc Author: Eric Schulte Date: Thu Feb 4 09:43:11 2010 -0700 babel: load-file works for symlinks -- Thanks to Martin Kühl :040000 040000 b4e1b1d95a9c1bfd182ad3a834830c4494566679 7ae93fe06479799b0d7dc233caa00ddfd6daec3a M contrib The backtrace from starting emacs with --debug-init follows: > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker- > p nil) > time-subtract((19311 14612 450479) nil) > (time-to-seconds (time-subtract (current-time) (sixth ...))) > (catch (quote --cl-block-age--) (time-to-seconds (time- > subtract ... ...))) > (cl-block-wrapper (catch (quote --cl-block-age--) (time-to- > seconds ...))) > (block age (time-to-seconds (time-subtract ... ...))) > age("td.org") > (> (age file) (age exported-file)) > (and (file-exists-p exported-file) (> (age file) (age exported- > file))) > (if (and (file-exists-p exported-file) (> ... ...)) nil (org-babel- > tangle-file file base-name "emacs-lisp")) > (unless (and (file-exists-p exported-file) (> ... ...)) (org-babel- > tangle-file file base-name "emacs-lisp")) > (let* ((base-name ...) (exported-file ...)) (unless (and ... ...) > (org-babel-tangle-file file base-name "emacs-lisp")) (load-file > exported-file) (message "loaded %s" exported-file)) > (progn (fset (quote age) (function* ...)) (let* (... ...) > (unless ... ...) (load-file exported-file) (message "loaded %s" > exported-file))) > (unwind-protect (progn (fset ... ...) (let* ... ... ... ...)) (if > --cl-letf-bound-- (fset ... --cl-letf-save--) (fmakunbound ...))) > (let* ((--cl-letf-bound-- ...) (--cl-letf-save-- ...)) (unwind- > protect (progn ... ...) (if --cl-letf-bound-- ... ...))) > (letf ((... ...)) (let* (... ...) (unless ... ...) (load-file > exported-file) (message "loaded %s" exported-file))) > (letf* ((... ...)) (let* (... ...) (unless ... ...) (load-file > exported-file) (message "loaded %s" exported-file))) > (flet ((age ... ...)) (let* (... ...) (unless ... ...) (load-file > exported-file) (message "loaded %s" exported-file))) > org-babel-load-file("td.org") > mapc(org-babel-load-file ("td.org")) > (let ((default-directory user-specific-dir)) (mapc (function load) > (directory-files user-specific-dir nil ".*el$")) (mapc (function org- > babel-load-file) (directory-files user-specific-dir nil ".*org$"))) > (progn (let (...) (mapc ... ...) (mapc ... ...))) > (if (file-exists-p user-specific-dir) (progn (let ... ... ...))) > (when (file-exists-p user-specific-dir) (let (...) (mapc ... ...) > (mapc ... ...))) > eval-buffer(#> nil "/Users/dk/.emacs.d/starter- > kit.el" nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 6504 > load-with-code-conversion("/Users/dk/.emacs.d/starter-kit.el" "/ > Users/dk/.emacs.d/starter-kit.el" nil nil) > load("/Users/dk/.emacs.d/starter-kit.el" nil nil t) > load-file("/Users/dk/.emacs.d/starter-kit.el") > (let* ((base-name ...) (exported-file ...)) (unless (and ... ...) > (org-babel-tangle-file file base-name "emacs-lisp")) (load-file > exported-file) (message "loaded %s" exported-file)) > (progn (fset (quote age) (function* ...)) (let* (... ...) > (unless ... ...) (load-file exported-file) (message "loaded %s" > exported-file))) > (unwind-protect (progn (fset ... ...) (let* ... ... ... ...)) (if > --cl-letf-bound-- (fset ... --cl-letf-save--) (fmakunbound ...))) > (let* ((--cl-letf-bound-- ...) (--cl-letf-save-- ...)) (unwind- > protect (progn ... ...) (if --cl-letf-bound-- ... ...))) > (letf ((... ...)) (let* (... ...) (unless ... ...) (load-file > exported-file) (message "loaded %s" exported-file))) > (letf* ((... ...)) (let* (... ...) (unless ... ...) (load-file > exported-file) (message "loaded %s" exported-file))) > (flet ((age ... ...)) (let* (... ...) (unless ... ...) (load-file > exported-file) (message "loaded %s" exported-file))) > org-babel-load-file("/Users/dk/.emacs.d/starter-kit.org") > eval-buffer(# nil "/Users/dk/.emacs.d/init.el" nil > t) ; Reading at buffer position 884 > load-with-code-conversion("/Users/dk/.emacs.d/init.el" "/Users/ > dk/.emacs.d/init.el" t t) > load("/Users/dk/.emacs.d/init" t t) > #[nil "\205\264 \306=\203\307\310Q\2027 \311= > \2033\312\307\313\314#\203#\315\2027\312\307\313\316# > \203/\317\2027\315\2027\307\320Q\321\322\n\321\211#\210 \321= > \203_\323\324\325\307\326Q!\"\322\f\321\211#\210 \321=\203^\n) > \203\244\327 !\330\232\203\244\331 !\211\332P\"\333\"! > \203\200\"\202\213\333 > !\203\212 > \202\213\313\211\203\243\334 > \"\203\241\335\336 > #\210\337\340!\210 > *#?\205\263\313$\322\341\321\211#))\207" [init-file-user system- > type user-init-file-1 user-init-file otherfile source ms-dos "~" "/ > _emacs" windows-nt directory-files nil "^\\.emacs\\(\\.elc?\\)?$" > "~/.emacs" "^_emacs\\(\\.elc?\\)?$" "~/_emacs" "/.emacs" t load > expand-file-name "init" file-name-as-directory "/.emacs.d" file-name- > extension "elc" file-name-sans-extension ".el" file-exists-p file- > newer-than-file-p message "Warning: %s is newer than %s" sit-for 1 > "default" alt inhibit-default-init inhibit-startup-screen] 7]() > command-line() > normal-top-level() hth, Tom