diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 96b9eadac..607d80177 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Contributors since the last release:
 
 For fixes or providing information which led to a fix:
 
+           Hans Aberg
           David Allouche
          Andrew Bagdanov
 	 Martin Baulig
diff --git a/libguile/vm-engine.c b/libguile/vm-engine.c
index e69167f31..341dbc8a7 100644
--- a/libguile/vm-engine.c
+++ b/libguile/vm-engine.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 2001, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright (C) 2001, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  * 
  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License
@@ -154,8 +154,9 @@ VM_NAME (SCM vm, SCM program, SCM *argv, int nargs)
     goto vm_error;
 
   vm_error_apply_to_non_list:
+    SYNC_ALL ();
     scm_error (scm_arg_type_key, "apply", "Apply to non-list: ~S",
-               finish_args, finish_args);
+               scm_list_1 (finish_args), scm_list_1 (finish_args));
     goto vm_error;
 
   vm_error_kwargs_length_not_even: