Re: Trouble with gnus-agent-expire

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:07:40 -0500, Harry wrote:
>
>> Yeah but how to find that out... when there seems to be no output?
>
> Maybe something like this:
>
>   M-x toggle-debug-on-quit
>   [... invoke whatever it is you want to investigate ...]
>   C-g
>   [... get a lisp backtrace ...]
>   [... ?!? ...]
>   [... profit ...]
>
> Just an idea, I'm only posing as someone who can dole out advice.

Well, looks like you got way with your pose...

Turns out that tramp is involved somehow (backtrace at the end).  I'm
guessing I must have opened a group on a remote sometime or
other... that all I could think of... but the server buffer doesn't
show anything like that.

Also I had a variable `gnus-agent-expire-unagentized-dirs'
set... which may have been causing problems.. but when I set it to nil
and called M-x gnus-agent-expire.... it finished immediately.. I mean
instantaneously.  That's when I noticed I had no agentized groups.

I guess it was a senior moment..Then I remembered having took all
groups out of agent control.

I'm not sure what tramp is doing in the backtrace ... equally baffled by the
presence of anything to do with cygwin.... this is a linux (gentoo)
machine..maybe someone will know.

I finally just ran a find delete cmd deleting anything more than 20
days old with number for a name.  

-------        ---------       ---=---       ---------      -------- 
Back trace
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (quit)
  backquote-process((tramp-completion-file-name-handler cygwin-mount-name-hook-function cygwin-mount-map-drive-hook-function \, (and (eq inhibit-file-name-operation operation) inhibit-file-name-handlers)))
  #[(structure) "\301\b!A\207" [structure backquote-process] 2 1694483]((tramp-completion-file-name-handler cygwin-mount-name-hook-function cygwin-mount-map-drive-hook-function \, (and (eq inhibit-file-name-operation operation) inhibit-file-name-handlers)))
  (\` (tramp-completion-file-name-handler cygwin-mount-name-hook-function cygwin-mount-map-drive-hook-function \, (and ... inhibit-file-name-handlers)))
  (let* ((inhibit-file-name-handlers ...) (inhibit-file-name-operation operation)) (apply operation args))
  tramp-completion-run-real-handler(directory-file-name ("/"))
  (if (and fn tramp-mode (or ... ... ... ... ...)) (save-match-data (apply ... args)) (tramp-completion-run-real-handler operation args))
  (let ((directory-sep-char 47) (fn ...)) (if (and fn tramp-mode ...) (save-match-data ...) (tramp-completion-run-real-handler operation args)))
  tramp-completion-file-name-handler(directory-file-name "/")
  directory-file-name("/")
  #[(d) "\306\b!\307\x19\x1a\n\211A\x12@\211\x11\205b