From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/87610 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Can anyone explain this error message? Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 11:08:49 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <86379fz3em.fsf@local.lan> References: <86iniekjtc.fsf@local.lan> <87vamdzyrn.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501340958 1243 195.159.176.226 (29 Jul 2017 15:09:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:09:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m35824@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Jul 29 17:09:14 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from mxfilter-048034.atla03.us.yomura.com ([107.189.48.34]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dbTMg-000061-7w for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 17:09:14 +0200 X-Yomura-MXScrub: 1.0 Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu (unknown [129.7.128.208]) by mxfilter-048034.atla03.us.yomura.com (Halon) with ESMTPS id e4be44d6-746f-11e7-8ed1-b499baa2b07a; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:09:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1dbTMY-00080u-6K; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 10:09:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1dbTMV-00080I-Bk for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 10:09:03 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1dbTMU-0000XW-9E for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 10:09:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1dbTMS-0006YB-Sc for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 17:09:00 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dbTMH-0007Kn-Lg for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 17:08:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:nWCQQqOc8x9tJ5n9oXTemI1MscY= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:87610 Archived-At: Robert Pluim writes: > Harry Putnam 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!\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.