From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/46057 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: message about errors in .newsrc.eld on startup Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 09:16:56 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87d6stx1jr.fsf@home.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028791160 7610 127.0.0.1 (8 Aug 2002 07:19:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:19:20 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17chZn-0001yd-00 for ; Thu, 08 Aug 2002 09:19:19 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17chXs-0000sJ-00; Thu, 08 Aug 2002 02:17:20 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 08 Aug 2002 02:17:46 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA26350 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 02:17:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 9611 invoked by alias); 8 Aug 2002 07:16:59 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 9606 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2002 07:16:59 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by gnus.org with SMTP; 8 Aug 2002 07:16:59 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17chsi-0006bP-00 for ; Thu, 08 Aug 2002 09:38:52 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.1.63.32 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1028792332 24709 195.1.63.32 (8 Aug 2002 07:38:52 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Aug 2002 07:38:52 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, i386-debian-linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LRt2147tAwMVlsIuVwrA5yXU5U8= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46057 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46057 When I start up Gnus, I get the error message Error in /home/sb/.newsrc.eld; continue? (yes or no) When I type "yes" and press RET, everything seems to work normally. But the message is annoying. Does anyone have a good trick to trace it down and fix it manually? Perhaps we need a .newsrc.eld well formedness/syntax checker? Thanx! - Steinar