problems starting up and saving files

[tinu]

Symptoms:

When starting emacs, I get

An error has occurred while loading `/home/tinu/.emacs':

Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil

Thanks, Martin


In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.53 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2003-04-09 on yak
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: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Recent input:
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-c ; ; <backspace> 
C-x C-x M-x C-g C-c ; M-x c o m m <tab> e <tab> r e 
g <tab> <return> C-x C-s C-g M-o M-o C-g M-o C-g C-g 
C-n C-n C-p C-p C-n C-x o C-x C-s C-g C-p C-n C-p C-n 
C-n C-p C-n C-p C-n C-n C-p C-p C-n C-p C-n C-n <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> 
<report-emacs-bug>

Recent messages:
Quit
Making completion list...
Loading help-mode...done
Loading newcomment...done
Loading debug...done
Entering debugger...
Quit [4 times]
backup-buffer: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil
Quit
Loading emacsbug...done