bug#22389: 25.1.50; place in file not properly being saved

[covici]

I have an emacs.desktop file and when I load it, all the files go to
their appropriate places.  But if I am in emacs and I do a find-file, it
always goes to the top.
I am using a text console.




In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.6)
 of 2016-01-13 built on ccs.covici.com
Repository revision: ee83b77f5ddede0fed518d0c23cf0ae38ce5b745
System Description:     Gentoo Base System release 2.2

Configured using:
 'configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
 --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man
 --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc
 --localstatedir=/var/lib --disable-dependency-tracking
 --disable-silent-rules --libdir=/usr/lib64
 --program-suffix=-emacs-25-vcs --infodir=/usr/share/info/emacs-25-vcs
 --localstatedir=/var
 --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
 --with-gameuser=:gamestat --without-compress-install
 --with-file-notification=inotify --enable-acl --with-dbus
 --without-gnutls --with-gpm --without-hesiod --without-kerberos
 --without-kerberos5 --without-xml2 --without-selinux --without-wide-int
 --with-zlib --with-sound=alsa --with-x --without-ns --without-gconf
 --without-gsettings --without-toolkit-scroll-bars --with-gif
 --with-jpeg --with-png --with-rsvg --with-tiff --with-xpm
 --without-imagemagick --without-xft --without-cairo --without-libotf
 --without-m17n-flt --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
 GENTOO_PACKAGE=app-editors/emacs-vcs-25.1.9999 EGIT_BRANCH=master
 EGIT_VERSION=ee83b77f5ddede0fed518d0c23cf0ae38ce5b745 'CFLAGS=-O2
 -mtune=core2 -pipe -ggdb' CPPFLAGS= 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed''

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND GPM DBUS NOTIFY ACL ZLIB GTK3 X11

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Text

Minor modes in effect:
  gpm-mouse-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  save-place-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  auto-fill-function: do-auto-fill
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent messages:
Loading bookmark...done
Loading saveplace...done
Using vacuous schema [2 times]
Wrote /root/.emacs.desktop.lock
Desktop: 1 frame, 8 buffers restored.
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

Load-path shadows:
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-tool-bar hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-tool-bar
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-speed hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-speed
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-folder hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-folder
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-acros hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-acros
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-utils hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-utils
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-junk hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-junk
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-comp hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-comp
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-inc hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-inc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-search hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-search
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-letter hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-letter
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-e hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-e
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-mime hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-mime
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-seq hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-seq
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-identity hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-identity
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-gnus hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-gnus
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-limit hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-limit
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-buffers hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-buffers
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-show hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-show
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-alias hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-alias
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-scan hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-scan
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-thread hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-thread
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-xface hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-xface
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-funcs hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-funcs
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-print hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-print
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-compat hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-compat
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mh-e/mh-loaddefs hides 
/usr/share/emacs/25.1.50/lisp/mh-e/mh-loaddefs

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec
mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils
mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mail-utils t-mouse dired
dired-loaddefs sgml-mode nxml-uchnm rng-xsd xsd-regexp rng-cmpct
rng-nxml rng-valid rng-loc rng-uri rng-parse nxml-parse rng-match rng-dt
rng-util rng-pttrn nxml-ns nxml-mode nxml-outln nxml-rap nxml-util
nxml-glyph nxml-enc xmltok seq desktop frameset finder-inf info package
epg-config url-handlers url-parse auth-source cl-seq eieio byte-opt
bytecomp byte-compile cl-extra cconv eieio-core cl-macs gv
eieio-loaddefs gnus-util time-date mm-util help-fns help-mode easymenu
mail-prsvr password-cache url-vars saveplace bookmark pp site-gentoo
edmacro kmacro cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib imenu mule-util disp-table
tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type
mwheel x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt
fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register
page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock
font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cl-generic cham georgian
utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean
japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european
ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese charscript case-table epa-hook
jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice
loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay
sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
hashtable-print-readable backquote dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting
move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 158885 5828)
 (symbols 48 26091 0)
 (miscs 40 116 112)
 (strings 32 37412 6670)
 (string-bytes 1 1052306)
 (vectors 16 17299)
 (vector-slots 8 477595 2049)
 (floats 8 238 326)
 (intervals 56 1655 0)
 (buffers 976 20)
 (heap 1024 22577 884))

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