From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28791 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pieter Wenk Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: lisp nesting exceeds 'max-eval-depth Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 08:03:27 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <20000117080327.B450@sre-4-139.urbanet.ch> References: <20000116204455.B3507@sre-4-139.urbanet.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165575 31652 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:59:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:59:35 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B701ED051E for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 02:06:08 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAB10417; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 01:06:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 17 Jan 2000 01:05:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA28385 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 01:05:48 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from monterosa.urbanet.ch (monterosa.urbanet.ch [195.202.193.104]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D2A3D051E for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 02:04:17 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 28073 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2000 07:04:14 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO sre-4-139.urbanet.ch) (195.202.209.139) by monterosa.urbanet.ch with SMTP; 17 Jan 2000 07:04:14 -0000 Original-Received: (from p.wenk@localhost) by sre-4-139.urbanet.ch (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA00575 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 08:03:27 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: X-Uptime: 7:43am up 3 min, 1 user, load average: 0.88, 0.57, 0.23 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28791 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28791 On lun, 17 jan 2000, Michael Welsh Duggan wrote: >Pieter Wenk writes: > >> It happens, that I am getting: >> >> lisp nesting exceeds 'max-eval-depth >> >> How can I correct this. Kai suggested I am adding in >> ~/.emacs (setq max-specpdl-size 9999) >> >> what I have done... >> >> Unfortunately the problem is not solved. >> >> Any ideas what I have to do ? > >`max-eval-depth' exists to protect against infinite recursion. What >this error message means in this case is that emacs's call stack has >reached a depth of 9999. This is an unlikely depth for normal usage >of gnus. (I run with a `max-eval-depth' of 1500 with no problems.) >What are you trying to do when the problem occurs? Try setting >`debug-on-error' to t and see if the resulting backtrace looks like a >case of infinite recursion. If you think this is still a Gnus related >problem, post the repeating bit of the backtrace here. In fact, I do nothing special...just reading news. Shall set debug on error and will let you know backtrace. Regards -- / / (_)____ __ ____ __ Pieter Wenk / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / Vevey/Switzerland /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\