Re: Not enough arguments for format string

[Frank Schmitt <ich@frank-schmitt.net>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>>> But the backtrace seemed to be saying something about auth-sources.
>>> What the value of your `auth-source-debug' variable?
>>
>> Hmm. I don't have it.
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable auth-source-debug)
>> this after evaling in scratch after the unsuccessful attempt to start gnus.
>
> Hm.  *scratches head*  Your backtrace had stuff like:
>
>   apply(message "Unable to open server nnimap+ltw due to: Wrong number of arguments: #[(mode host protocol)
>
>   [...]
>
>   gnus-open-server((nnimap "ltw" (nnimap-address "ltw.loris.tv") (nnimap-stream ssl) (nnimap-authenticator login)))
>
> And the only place I can find "mode host protocol" is in auth-source.el.
> Which defines that debug variable.
>
> You don't happen to have an older auth-source in your load path
> somewhere?  What does M-x locate-library auth-source say?

This is *really* strange. It correctly says "Library is file
~/gnus/lisp/auth-source.elc" however during the failed attempt to
authenticate I get the following (look at the last line!)

Opening nnimap server on ltw...
Opening TLS connection to `ltw.loris.tv'...
Opening TLS connection with `gnutls-cli -p imaps ltw.loris.tv'...failed
Opening TLS connection with `gnutls-cli -p imaps ltw.loris.tv
--protocols ssl3'...failed
Opening TLS connection with `openssl s_client -connect
ltw.loris.tv:imaps -no_ssl2 -ign_eof'...done
Opening TLS connection to `ltw.loris.tv'...done
Unable to open server nnimap+ltw due to: Wrong number of arguments:
#[(mode host protocol) "\306\307\310^H
%\210^H<\211^[\203^S^@^H\202^U^@^HC^X\311\312^H
$^\\313^L^M\"\211^^^Q\203A^@\306\307\314^H\315^H\235\2035^@\316\2027^@^N^Q
&^F\210^N^Q\202D^@\317\320\215,\207" [mode host protocol listy cname
auth-source-cache gnus-message 9 "auth-source-user-o\
r-password: get %s for %s (%s)" format "%s %s:%s" gethash
"auth-source-user-or-password: cached %s=%s for %s (%s)" "passw\
ord" "SECRET" --cl-block-nil-- (byte-code "\306^H
\"\307^Z\211^[\203]^@^K@^R\310^L\311
\312\"^HC\313\314 \"C\315
!%\211^U\203Q^@\316\317\320^L\321^L\235\2032^@\322\2023^@^M^H
&^F\210^N^V\203A^@^M\202C^@^M\242\
^U^N^W\203Q^@\323^N^X^M^N^Y#\210\324\325^M\"\210^KA\211^S\204^K^@*\307\207"
[host protocol choice --cl-dolist-temp-- mode\
 found auth-source-pick nil netrc-machine-user-or-password plist-get
 :source format "%s" auth-source-protocol-defaults gn\
us-message 9 "auth-source-user-or-password: found %s=%s for %s (%s)"
"password" "SECRET" puthash throw --cl-block-nil-- l\
isty auth-source-do-cache cname auth-source-cache] 8) found] 8
("/usr/share/emacs/23.1/lisp/gnus/auth-source.elc" . 3601)\
], 5

What could be wrong there? I have 

(setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/gnus/lisp") load-path))
(require 'gnus-load)

in .emacs.

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