Loading hexl reveals backtrace

[Christoph Conrad]

In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.12 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2003-01-13 on linux
configured using `configure '--with-x''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: POSIX
  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: address@hidden
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil

Since yesterday i get an error when loading hexl.

emacs -q --no-site-file
M-x toggle-debug-on-error
M-x load-library <RET> hexl <RET>

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Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Two bases given in one event")
  define-key((keymap #^[t nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil 
nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil 
nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil ...] (remap 
keymap)) [remap (quote self-insert-command)] hexl-self-insert-command)
  byte-code("„;à 
ÄÅÆ#ˆÄÇÈ#ˆÄÉÊ#ˆÄËÌ#ˆÄÍÎ#ˆÄÏÐ#ˆÄÑÒ#ˆÄÓÔ#ˆÄÕÖ#ˆÄ×Ø#ˆÄÙÚ#ˆÄÛÜ#ˆÄÝÞ#ˆÄßà#ˆÄáà#ˆÄâà#ˆÄãà#ˆÄäà#ˆÄåØ#ˆÄæÈ#ˆÄçà#ˆÄèÚ#ˆÄéÊ#ˆêë
        !!ì=„£Äë      address@hidden" [hexl-mode-map help-char 
mode-specific-map make-keymap define-key [remap (quote self-insert-command)] 
hexl-self-insert-command [left] hexl-backward-char [right] hexl-forward-char 
[up] hexl-previous-line [down] hexl-next-line [M-left] hexl-backward-short 
[M-right] hexl-forward-short [next] hexl-scroll-up [prior] hexl-scroll-down 
[home] hexl-beginning-of-line [end] hexl-end-of-line [C-home] 
hexl-beginning-of-buffer [C-end] hexl-end-of-buffer [deletechar] undefined 
[deleteline] [insertline] [S-delete] "" "
" "" "" "" "" key-binding 
char-to-string help-command "" "" "" "" "" ...] 4)
  load("hexl")
  load-library("hexl")
* call-interactively(load-library)
  execute-extended-command(nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command)