Re: Can anyone explain this error message?

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
>> When I start gnus, or scan for news/mail
>>
>> I get this error in echo area (wrapped for mail):
>>
>>   Mail source (directory :path /home/reader/spool/in/ :suffix .in
>>   :predicate #[(file) \301\b!\302\230\207 [file file-name-nondirectory
>>   cron_tr.in] 2]) error (Searching for program).  Continue? (y or n) y
>>
>
> If you do (setq debug-on-error t), then you should get a better
> backtrace telling you what's going on.
>

I've worked around for now. So don't have the same setup now, I'll
have to set it up in a sandbox to recreate.

But as I recall I did set debug on error (as an old time gnus user I
knew to try that).  As I recall it produced no back-trace... It might
not be considered a gnus error.  Or probably more likely I screwed
up the attempt somehow.


The problem produces a yes or no question and claims the error is in
not finding an un-named program.  But it has got to be involved with the
way gnus slurps *.in mbox files and sends them to like named (minus
the *.in part) nnml directories.

I'm running debian in a vbox vm on an `openindian' OS (an open source
branch of solaris 11).  I had inadvertently rm'ed my git branch of
emacs and some of its installed files I keep on a test area. Replaced
them with files from a zfs filesytem snapshot.

Hopefully it has something to do with me having screwed that up
somehow.

I'm going to try again from a clean start ... Maybe it will just go away.