From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/88100 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Registry save: apparently circular structure being printed Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 18:19:52 -0700 Message-ID: <87a7q6g9xj.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87lga745qd.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87zhy74eoe.fsf@tromey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1533086329 4731 195.159.176.226 (1 Aug 2018 01:18:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 01:18:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: ding-owner+M36314@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Aug 01 03:18:44 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fkfmm-00016D-K3 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2018 03:18:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1fkfoA-00009h-2F; Tue, 31 Jul 2018 20:20:10 -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 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1fkfo0-00006G-8B for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 31 Jul 2018 20:20:00 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1fkfny-0006MQ-Lk for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 31 Jul 2018 20:20:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.ericabrahamsen.net ([50.56.99.223]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fkfnw-0004J4-T0 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2018 03:19:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (97-113-227-87.tukw.qwest.net [97.113.227.87]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: eric@ericabrahamsen.net) by mail.ericabrahamsen.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 96C45C3AF3; Wed, 1 Aug 2018 01:19:54 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mail.ericabrahamsen.net; s=mail; t=1533086394; bh=RaiXcR7r9zXQARaxl+Asf7p67KOD2pIbfe0ergd8ivY=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=hVliovLXJBr09a0IQCZOOOCxB59s0rkw35EHoH56VYsDaKvy/w9mdQAOfEGCCvJf/ hP6Ny6xZN8Tq8uxy9ak5agk+6Wye4kwZ83RoOOFgid1FHvzL+AYnWebNbddvDMwlnv usNutn5kqdsKX5HsgYlVr8v9Z7lOZTCOyj1SR9ys= In-Reply-To: <87zhy74eoe.fsf@tromey.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Tue, 31 Jul 2018 09:18:09 -0600") X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:88100 Archived-At: On 07/31/18 09:18 AM, Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >>> At the point of saving the registry, I started getting the message >>> "Apparently circular structure being printed". This persisted until I >>> killed emacs directly and deleted the gnus registry. Not exactly an >>> optimal solution! >>> >>> I realize this is obscure, and my report is necessarily bare-bones, >>> but has anyone ever seen anything like this? > > Eric> Unfortunately, yes, I think Uwe Brauer reported something similar a > Eric> while ago. Can you tell me what version of emacs you're using? > > [...] > > Eric> Tell me your emacs version, and if you can, please provide a backtrace > Eric> that I can compare to Uwe's, and see if I can figure this out. > > I've encountered this as well, and I filed it as: > > https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=31978 > > I was using Emacs 26 and a stack trace is included there. I responded to that bug report! Did you see my note about using the commit from master? Eric