Gnus v5.5: Internal Emacs Bug!

Gnus v5.5: Internal Emacs Bug!

[Kaspar Landsberg]

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Hello,

since today, i get the following error message when starting up Gnus
v5.5:

Error in ~/.gnus: (end-of-file #<INTERNAL EMACS BUG (decoding lstream)
0x0x8495000>)

(The number changes each time the error messages occurs.)

And that's all. After that, Gnus exits.

IIRC, i didnt change anything in my .gnus file since the last successful
startup of Gnus.

I am attaching my .gnus file to this post/mail.

This post goes also to the Gnus mailing list. But since i am currently
unable to read mails that go thru that list, please include kl@snafu.de
in your replies.

Thanks for any hint!

Bye, Kasi

PS: Since this lame Netscape did not want to let me select ".gnus" as
file to attach, i  
    copied it to "gnus".

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;; *** News section ***

;; read news over local spool
(setq gnus-select-method '(nnspool ""))

;; where the active lies...
(setq nnspool-active-file "/var/lib/news/active")

;; the program to post articles
(setq news-inews-program "/usr/bin/inews")
(setq nnspool-inews-program "/usr/bin/inews")

;; don't check for new newsgroups (on startup)
;;(setq gnus-check-new-newsgroups nil)

;; *** Misc section ***

;; use Netscape when clicking on URLs
(setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-netscape)

;; *** Common section ***

;; use this as From: line
(setq user-mail-address "kl@kl.Snafu.DE")

;; dont display the following headers
(setq gnus-ignored-headers 
    (concat "^Xref:\\|^NNTP-Posting-Date:\\|^X-Trace:\\|^Message-ID:\\"
            "|^Lines:\\|^Path:\\|^References:\\|^X-MimeOLE:\\"
            "|^X-MSMail-Priority:\\|^X-Priority:\\|^X-Accept-Language:\\"
            "|^Approved:\\|^Received:.*\\|^Delivered-To:.*\\"
            "|^Precedence:.*\\|^X-From-Line:.*\\|^X-Gnus-Newsgroup:.*\\"
            "|^Mime-Version:\\|^Content-Type:\\|^Content-Transfer-Encoding:"
    )
)

;; this needs to be nil in order to make the above work
(setq gnus-visible-headers nil)

;; enable line break
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)

;; *** Mail section ***

;; use Maildir as mail source
;(setq mail-sources
;    '(
;         (maildir)
;     )
;)

;; use nnfolder for mail
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
    '(
        (nnmbox "")
     )
)

;; some setting for qmail found in the FAQ
(setq message-send-mail-function 'message-send-mail-with-qmail)

;; split up incoming mails into different groups
(setq nnmail-split-methods
    '(
      ("ircd-dev" "\\(To\\|CC\\):.*ircd-dev@irc.org")
      ("ircd-users" "\\(To\\|CC\\):.*ircd-users@irc.org")
      ("ircnet" "\\(To\\|CC\\):.*ircnet@irc.org")
      ("bugtraq" "\\(To\\|CC\\):.*bugtraq@securityfocus.com")
      ("gnus" "\\(To\\|CC\\):.*ding@gnus.org")
      ("ircii-epic" "\\(To\\|CC\\):.*ircii-epic@concentric.net")
      ("winfo" "\\(To\\|CC\\):.*winfo-studs@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de")
      ("suse-linux" "\\(To\\|CC\\):.*suse-linux@suse.com")
      ("suse-linux-e" "\\(To\\|CC\\):.*suse-linux-e@suse.com")
      ("suse-announce" "\\(To\\|CC\\):.*suse-announce@suse.com")
      ("suse-announce-e" "\\(To\\|CC\\):.*suse-announce-e@suse.com")
      ("suse-security" "\\(To\\|CC\\):.*suse-security@suse.com")
      ("qmail" "\\(To\\|CC\\):.*qmail@list.cr.yp.to")
      ("linux-kernel" \\(To\\|CC\\):.*linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu")
      ("irc.logs" "^Subject:.*ircnet.log")
      ("irc.logs" "^Subject:.*efnet.log")
      ("gup" "^From:.*gup@unlisys.net")
      ("cert" "^From:.*cert-advisory@cert.org")
      ("personal" "")
     )
)

;; quote prefix
(setq message-yank-prefix "| ")

Re: Gnus v5.5: Internal Emacs Bug!

[Kaspar Landsberg]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 10:39:29AM -0400, Justin Sheehy wrote:

| > IIRC, i didnt change anything in my .gnus file since the last successful
| > startup of Gnus.
| 
| You must have, as there is an error in your ~/.gnus file.  You are
| missing a double quote.
| 
| > I am attaching my .gnus file to this post/mail.
| 
| Here is the offending line:
| 
| >       ("linux-kernel" \\(To\\|CC\\):.*linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu")
|                         ^ 
|                         quote needed before this backslash

eek, you're right! My guess went into the same direction, because i was not 100% sure i
didnt alter the .gnus file. And i knew that the only section which could be causing the
problem was the mailing list filtering part. But even after going thru it line by line i
did not find the error. Guess i should upper my terminal font size. :p

Thanks a lot for your help!!

Bye, Kasi

-- 
Kaspar Landsberg, <kl@snafu.de>