Re: Nearly impossible to start up recent Oort.

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
>
>> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
>>
>>> I can barely start up the latest CVS versions of Oort.  I have to try
>>> over and over, and maybe one out of 10 times or so, gnus finally comes
>>> up.  When it doesn't start, either the XEmacs window completely
>>> disappears, or els I get the following error.  I'm using XEmacs 21.4.3
>>> under RedHat Linux 7.2.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Signaling: (invalid-function 67399686)
>>>   67399686("" #<compiled-function (file orig-file) "...(17)" [orig-file file nnmail-split-incoming nnml-save-mail nil nnmail-get-split-group (directory :path "/home/ljz/Groups/" :suffix ".in") nnml-active-number] 7> t)
>>>   gnus-byte-compile((lambda (file orig-file) (nnmail-split-incoming file (quote nnml-save-mail) (quote nil) (if ... nil ...) (quote nnml-active-number))))
>>
>> You can get around the problem with (setq gnus-use-byte-compile nil).
>> If it works, probably there is a bug in the XEmacs byte-compile code.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> This is the same XEmacs I've been using for at least 6 months to do
> countless successful byte compiles, including dozens of byte compiles of
> various versions of Gnus, all of which have worked just fine.  Can you
> think of any other reason why this would start to fail in recent Gnus
> releases?
>
> Also, what could cause this error to not show up 100% of the time?  If I
> restart Gnus repeatedly, eventually (like I mentioned, maybe 1 in 10
> times or so), I do not get this error, and Gnus starts up fine.  There
> are no byte compiles of anything being done during the time when I'm
> doing the series of start-up attempts.

Emm, I didn't see any error running Gnus in XEmacs 21.4.6 on Linux.
But I don't run it often.  Does anyone have any hint?

ShengHuo