23.0.50; wrong-type-argument stringp cperl-mode-abbrev-table upon reading abbrevs

[Eric Hanchrow]

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I simply started Emacs with "emacs -nw".

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp 
cperl-mode-abbrev-table)
  intern(cperl-mode-abbrev-table [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...])
  define-abbrev([ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...] cperl-mode-abbrev-table "=head1" 
cperl-electric-pod 0)
  apply(define-abbrev [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...] (cperl-mode-abbrev-table 
"=head1" cperl-electric-pod 0))
  define-abbrev-table(cperl-mode-abbrev-table ((cperl-mode-abbrev-table 
"=head1" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "=head2" 
cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "=over" cperl-electric-pod 0) 
(cperl-mode-abbrev-table "=pod" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table 
"continue" cperl-electric-else 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "do" 
cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "else" cperl-electric-else 
0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "elsif" cperl-electric-keyword 0) 
(cperl-mode-abbrev-table "for" cperl-electric-keyword 0) 
(cperl-mode-abbrev-table "foreach" cperl-electric-keyword 0) 
(cperl-mode-abbrev-table "foreachmy" cperl-electric-keyword 0) 
(cperl-mode-abbrev-table "formy" cperl-electric-keyword 0) 
(cperl-mode-abbrev-table "head1" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table 
"head2" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "if" 
cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "over" cperl-electric-pod 0) 
(cperl-mode-abbrev-table "pod" cperl-electric-pod 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table 
"unless" cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "until" 
cperl-electric-keyword 0) (cperl-mode-abbrev-table "while" 
cperl-electric-keyword 0)))
  eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/erich/.abbrev_defs" nil t)  ; 
Reading at buffer position 2442
  load-with-code-conversion("/home/erich/.abbrev_defs" 
"/home/erich/.abbrev_defs" nil t)
  load("~/.abbrev_defs" nil t)
  read-abbrev-file("~/.abbrev_defs" t)
  quietly-read-abbrev-file("~/.abbrev_defs")
  command-line()
  normal-top-level()


If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/usr/local/src/emacs-cvs-trunk/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
 of 2007-11-04 on debian
configured using `configure  '--enable-maintainer-mode' '--with-xpm=no' 
'--with-jpeg=no' '--with-gif=no' '--with-tiff=no' '--with-xft' '--with-gtk' 
'--enable-font-backend''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Debugger

Minor modes in effect:
  erc-autojoin-mode: t
  erc-match-mode: t
  erc-log-mode: t
  erc-services-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  iswitchb-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-x h ESC w ESC x r e p o r t - e m TAB b TAB RET

Recent messages:
Cleaning up the recentf list...done (0 removed)
I guess we don't have tabbar available.
Loading /home/erich/.emacs.d/erc-stuff.el (source)...done
Loading /home/erich/.emacs.d/mwolsons-erc-timestamp-stuff.el (source)...done
Loading /home/erich/.environment.el (source)...done
I guess we don't have amz-common available.
Loading /home/erich/.emacs.d/elpa/package.el (source)...done
I guess we don't have xml-rpc available.
Entering debugger...
Mark set [2 times]

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