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From: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
To: Reiner Steib <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>
Cc: Michael Baer <gnus@mikesoffice.com>,
	ding@gnus.org, xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: Error sending attached files
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:58:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18803.2923.47279.551408@parhasard.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877i4tk7i3.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>


 Ar an seachtú lá déag de mí Eanair, scríobh Reiner Steib: 

 > Looks like a problem in XEmacs' `insert-file-contents-internal' to me.
 > Cc-ing xemacs-beta...

As far as I can tell, our encoding autodetection code thinks the file is ISO
2022 JP, and is auto-allocating character sets and running out of them. What
does Gnus bind coding-system-for-read to? It should be binary for this use
case.

 > On Tue, Jan 13 2009, Michael Baer wrote:
 > 
 > > I've been having an error when sending attached files with gnus
 > > email that has been driving me crazy.  I was hoping someone on this
 > > list might have some insight into the problem.  It is somewhat
 > > inconsistent and seems to happen more often with pdf and MS Word
 > > files.  If it happens with a file, it won't send that file and will
 > > continue to fail on repeated tries.  Although, if I reopen and save
 > > a doc again with Openoffice or convert a pdf to something else, it
 > > often will send the new file.  I usually attach the file with
 > > mml-attach-file (C-c C-a), but when I try to send I get the error
 > > message below:
 > >
 > > Invalid operation: No more character sets free for this dimension, 1
 > >
 > > The error message is kind of amusing, but doesn't really make much
 > > sense to me in this context.
 > >
 > > I'm using a Fedora 9 on a PPC platform, and I was using the version
 > > of gnus that is standard on F9 (I forget what version gnus is, it's
 > > xemacs 21.5.28-6) but I switched to the source gnus-5.10.10 with no
 > > noticeable change in this error.
 > >
 > > The debug on error output is:
 > >
 > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-operation "No more character sets free for this dimension" 1)
 > >   insert-file-contents-internal("~/wtemp/scan/temp.pdf" nil nil nil
 > >     nil undecided used-codesys) 
 > >   byte-code("..." [buffer-file-coding-system-for-read
 > >     coding-system-for-read return-val visit filename coding-system
 > >     run-hook-with-args insert-file-contents-access-hook
 > >     run-hook-with-args-until-success insert-file-contents-pre-hook
 > >     find-file-coding-system-for-read-from-filename raw-text
 > >     find-coding-system lwarn notice "Invalid coding-system (%s), using
 > >     'undecided" undecided insert-file-contents-internal used-codesys
 > >     start end replace] 9)
 > >   insert-file-contents("~/wtemp/scan/temp.pdf" nil nil nil nil)
 > >   mm-insert-file-contents("~/wtemp/scan/temp.pdf" nil nil nil nil t)
 > [...]
 > >   mml-generate-mime()
 > >   message-encode-message-body()
 > >   message-send-mail(nil)
 > >   message-send-via-mail(nil)
 > >   message-send(nil)
 > >   message-send-and-exit(nil)
 > >   call-interactively(message-send-and-exit)
 > >
 > > It's not making much sens to me, but any suggestions would
 > > definitely be appreciated,
 > 
 > Bye, Reiner.
 > -- 
 >        ,,,
 >       (o o)
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 > 
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-18 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-13  5:52 Michael Baer
2009-01-17 20:22 ` Reiner Steib
2009-01-18 10:58   ` Aidan Kehoe [this message]
2009-01-19  2:28     ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2009-01-20  6:16       ` Michael Baer

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