Re: Error sending attached files

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

Looks like a problem in XEmacs' `insert-file-contents-internal' to me.
Cc-ing xemacs-beta...

On Tue, Jan 13 2009, Michael Baer wrote:

> I've been having an error when sending attached files with gnus
> email that has been driving me crazy.  I was hoping someone on this
> list might have some insight into the problem.  It is somewhat
> inconsistent and seems to happen more often with pdf and MS Word
> files.  If it happens with a file, it won't send that file and will
> continue to fail on repeated tries.  Although, if I reopen and save
> a doc again with Openoffice or convert a pdf to something else, it
> often will send the new file.  I usually attach the file with
> mml-attach-file (C-c C-a), but when I try to send I get the error
> message below:
>
> Invalid operation: No more character sets free for this dimension, 1
>
> The error message is kind of amusing, but doesn't really make much
> sense to me in this context.
>
> I'm using a Fedora 9 on a PPC platform, and I was using the version
> of gnus that is standard on F9 (I forget what version gnus is, it's
> xemacs 21.5.28-6) but I switched to the source gnus-5.10.10 with no
> noticeable change in this error.
>
> The debug on error output is:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-operation "No more character sets free for this dimension" 1)
>   insert-file-contents-internal("~/wtemp/scan/temp.pdf" nil nil nil
>     nil undecided used-codesys) 
>   byte-code("..." [buffer-file-coding-system-for-read
>     coding-system-for-read return-val visit filename coding-system
>     run-hook-with-args insert-file-contents-access-hook
>     run-hook-with-args-until-success insert-file-contents-pre-hook
>     find-file-coding-system-for-read-from-filename raw-text
>     find-coding-system lwarn notice "Invalid coding-system (%s), using
>     'undecided" undecided insert-file-contents-internal used-codesys
>     start end replace] 9)
>   insert-file-contents("~/wtemp/scan/temp.pdf" nil nil nil nil)
>   mm-insert-file-contents("~/wtemp/scan/temp.pdf" nil nil nil nil t)
[...]
>   mml-generate-mime()
>   message-encode-message-body()
>   message-send-mail(nil)
>   message-send-via-mail(nil)
>   message-send(nil)
>   message-send-and-exit(nil)
>   call-interactively(message-send-and-exit)
>
> It's not making much sens to me, but any suggestions would
> definitely be appreciated,

Bye, Reiner.
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