From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/43009 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ShengHuo ZHU Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Nearly impossible to start up recent Oort. Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 14:12:31 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <2nheorwzxc.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> References: <2npu3gimzy.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035178169 15253 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:29:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:29:29 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 3757 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2002 19:14:16 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 8 Feb 2002 19:14:16 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16ZGSg-00070L-00; Fri, 08 Feb 2002 13:13:30 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 08 Feb 2002 13:13:28 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA18280 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 13:13:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 3746 invoked by alias); 8 Feb 2002 19:13:13 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 3741 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2002 19:13:13 -0000 Original-Received: from zsh.cs.rochester.edu (HELO zsh.2y.net) (192.5.53.126) by gnus.org with SMTP; 8 Feb 2002 19:13:13 -0000 Original-Received: (from zsh@localhost) by zsh.2y.net (8.11.6/8.11.2) id g18JCVr32711; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 14:12:31 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: ZSH X-Face: #zw9`a=vHLkn+ZH8C (Lloyd Zusman's message of "Fri, 08 Feb 2002 08:10:51 -0500") Original-Lines: 41 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43009 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43009 Lloyd Zusman writes: > ShengHuo ZHU writes: > >> Lloyd Zusman 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("" # 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