From: "Johnny Carlsson" <yggdrasil@gmx.co.uk>
To: ding@gnus.org
Cc: styxsailor@gmail.com
Subject: Gnus freezes on startup
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:32:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120926203300.222980@gmx.com> (raw)
Hi all,
Recently I have been unable to start gnus on my machine and am completely unable to debug why. This was around two weeks ago - incidentally I created a dual-boot windows partition for the first time in years, but however keen to blame this I don't see any obvious correlation...
Problem is as the heading - I start emacs successfully, then do M-x gnus. The nice logo shows up, but keeps me gazing at it while nothing seems to happen and I have to kill the process from the terminal.
I am running a customised F17 LXDE system with emacs 24.1.1 and used NoGnus (version unknown...). When the problem occured, I recalled seeing a "warning: package gg-gg is obsolete", so I removed my gnus and fetched the latest version from git. Attempting ./configure and make, this freezes just after building compface.el, so I just used the .el files. Gnus still froze on startup. So I removed all custom gnus to fallback to the distro version of gnus (5.13). Gnus still freezes on start. Believing the issue might be in some corrupted file, I removed all gnus customisation in the emacs init file and renamed ".gnus.el, newsrc.eld, News, and Mail" believing this should use defaults for everything. Still freezes. Final attempt using --no-server option, still freezing.
I have no idea where to start to get some traces or ideas how to fault find from here, and any ideas will be /very/ appreciated! As Gnus is my primary mail reader, and filter, there's no way to keep up with any mailing lists - please wide reply to my secondary e-mail as well...
It is possible I have botched my system in other ways by fiddling with Windows, virtualisation and what not, but everything else works fine.
Cheers,
Johnny
next reply other threads:[~2012-09-26 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-26 20:32 Johnny Carlsson [this message]
2012-09-26 21:02 ` Ian Swainson
2012-09-27 7:43 ` Julien Danjou
2012-09-27 9:27 ` Antoine Levitt
2012-10-07 15:04 ` gnus-timer--function is void (was Re: Gnus freezes on startup) Johnny
2012-10-08 20:31 ` Haider Rizvi
2012-10-09 1:07 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2012-10-09 2:17 ` Haider Rizvi
2012-10-09 3:28 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
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