If not, disregard the rest of this message.
If yes, I don't see any problems, so you might want to provide the
context (e.g. are trying to move subtrees up, move table rows up or
move items in a list up?) Check also the value of `org-metaup-hook' to
see if something weird crept in there.
If it happens regardless of context, I would edebug the org-metaup
function and see where the error message comes from - BTW,
org-preserve-local-variables is a macro, not a function (so that might
have something to do with it), defined in org-macs.el. If your setup
is curdled, that might not be loaded, so try `(load-library org-macs)`
and see if that resolves if: if it does, then you have to figure out
whether there is something wrong with your setup (if it doesn't load
that file automatically) or how it got curdled (if it does).
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Nick
"There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache
invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler