The same error started happening here after upgrading from Buster to Bullseye.
maxima-emacs version: 5.44.0-3 (%i1) bug_report(); ------------------------------------------------------------- Maxima version: "5.44.0" Maxima build date: "2021-04-24 14:52:58" Host type: "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" Lisp implementation type: "GNU Common Lisp (GCL)" Lisp implementation version: "GCL 2.6.12" User dir: "/home/leon/.maxima" Temp dir: "/tmp" Object dir: "/home/leon/.maxima/binary/5_44_0/gcl/GCL_2_6_12" Frontend: "imaxima" Frontend version: "5.44.0" ------------------------------------------------------------- -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages maxima-emacs depends on: ii emacs-gtk [emacsen] 1:27.1+1-3.1 ii emacsen-common 3.0.4 ii maxima 5.44.0-3 ii maxima-doc 5.44.0-3 ii tex-common 6.16 ii texlive-binaries [texlive-base-bin] 2020.20200327.54578-7 ii texlive-latex-recommended 2020.20210202-3 Versions of packages maxima-emacs recommends: ii evince [postscript-viewer] 3.38.2-1 ii ghostscript [postscript-viewer] 9.53.3~dfsg-7 ii gv [postscript-viewer] 1:3.7.4-2+b1 ii mime-support 3.66 ii mupdf [pdf-viewer] 1.17.0+ds1-2 maxima-emacs suggests no packages. -- no debconf information