diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index f7a25e44de371ae32c26738e7586d6ce90bb913e..c55e2d0aed9717cab8c8305ef96f618c6d4460f1 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-08-16  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
+
+	* desktop.el (desktop-save): Don't look at symbol-value of a
+	member of minor-mode-alist, unless it is boundp.
+
 2000-08-16  Sam Steingold  <sds@gnu.org>
 
 	* buff-menu.el (list-buffers-noselect): Use `dolist' instead of
diff --git a/lisp/desktop.el b/lisp/desktop.el
index e59d57c07fc626e5312a80504ed132a10ae2c81b..dd26daa097083903c9e2a12727675d5ce1345d6c 100644
--- a/lisp/desktop.el
+++ b/lisp/desktop.el
@@ -458,7 +458,8 @@ MODE is the major mode."
 			       (let (ret)
 				 (mapcar
 				  #'(lambda (mim)
-				      (and (symbol-value mim)
+				      (and (boundp mim)
+					   (symbol-value mim)
 					   (setq ret
 						 (cons (let ((special (assq mim desktop-minor-mode-table)))
 							(if special