From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64197 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: "(wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p (nil nil))" when opening group Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:49:31 +0100 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <873b6xwl1w.fsf@bang.priv.no> References: <87d565n3e4.fsf@bang.priv.no> <87slexiqnt.fsf@bang.priv.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167486604 30489 80.91.229.12 (30 Dec 2006 13:50:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:50:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M12720@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Dec 30 14:50:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H0eay-0006yx-KI for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:49:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H0eao-0003hr-Ie; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:49:46 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H0ean-0003hX-63 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:49:45 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H0eah-0007y4-DQ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:49:45 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1H0eag-00089D-00 for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:49:38 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H0eag-0001JO-7v for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:49:38 +0100 Original-Received: from cm-84.209.84.052.chello.no ([84.209.84.52]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:49:38 +0100 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.209.84.052.chello.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:49:38 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.209.84.052.chello.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XqCIUMdWg5i5PiTrYRQeXC5rd1w= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64197 Archived-At: >>>>> Steinar Bang : > So either it's once more something in my setup,... or my > .newsrc.eld has been corrupted (dread!). >>>>> Steinar Bang : > This problem predates the CVS update, however. It was actually the > reason I did the update. > So I suspect a corrupted .newsrc.eld... or perhaps it is something in > the agent data...? Corrupted agent data may be something to investigate. I just started a gnus slave, opened the server buffer, and took the primary server off agent. Then I was able to open the groups without problems. Putting it back on agent and the problem reappeared... hm. Renaming both the .agentview and the .overview for one of the offending groups, and then starting a slave, visiting the group and saving and exiting the slave, fixed this problem in all groups on the primary server (I first tried just renaming the .agentview but that wasn't enough). I still don't know exactly what the problem was though. If it's a corrupted .overview, it would be nice to be able to give a better error message than "(wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p (nil nil))" ...