Gnus registry error after upgrade, using emacs23

Gnus registry error after upgrade, using emacs23

[Dan Christensen]

I just upgraded to today's git Gnus from the Feb 21 version.  Using emacs23, 
I get the following error when starting Gnus:

Error: Not a lambda list: #[(db)
"\305\b\306\"\x19\307\305\b\310\"\311\b!\305\b\312\"_Z]\x1a\313^[\314\315	\"\210\v\237)\x1c
\f+D\207" [db data limit --cl-var-- candidates eieio-oref :data 0 :max-hard
registry-size :prune-factor nil maphash #[(k --cl-var--) "\b	B\211\x11\207" [k
--cl-var--] 2]] 6 "Collects pruning candidates from the registry-db object THIS.
Proposes any entries over the max-hard limit minus size * prune-factor."]

It's in a *Compile-Log* buffer.

If I enable backtraces, I get:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function registry-reindex)
  registry-reindex([object registry-db "Gnus Registry"
"~/Gnus/.gnus.registry.eioio" 0.1 10000 268435455 0.1 (subject sender 
recipient mark group keyword) (mark) #<hash-table 'eql nil 0/100 0x8399c58>
#<hash-table 'equal nil 0/10000 0x8aecc40>])
  gnus-registry-fixup-registry([object registry-db "Gnus Registry"
"~/Gnus/.gnus.registry.eioio" 0.1 10000 268435455 0.1 (subject sender 
recipient mark group keyword) (mark) #<hash-table 'eql nil 0/100 0x8399c58>
#<hash-table 'equal nil 0/10000 0x8aecc40>])
  gnus-registry-make-db()
  (defvar gnus-registry-db (gnus-registry-make-db)
("/home/jdc/emacs/gnus/lisp/gnus-registry.elc" . -7162))
  gnus-registry-initialize()
  byte-code(...)
  load("~/Gnus/.gnus" nil t)
  gnus-read-init-file()
  gnus-1(2 t nil)
  gnus(2 t)
  jdc-gnus-no-server()

[Sorry about the line breaks/control characters.  Posting via the gmane web
interface.]

This is using the eieio fallback lib.  The one in my version of Ubuntu is 
too old.

Any suggestions?

Dan

Re: Gnus registry error after upgrade, using emacs23

[Dan Christensen]

Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:

> I just upgraded to today's git Gnus from the Feb 21 version.  Using emacs23, 
> I get the following error when starting Gnus:
>
> Error: Not a lambda list: #[(db)
> [...]
>
> This is using the eieio fallback lib.  The one in my version of Ubuntu is 
> too old.

I've now tested this with both 23.1 and 23.2, and still get the same
error (using the eieio from git Gnus).

Dan

Re: Gnus registry error after upgrade, using emacs23

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function registry-reindex)

So is that function not defined?  Even if you `(require 'registry)'?

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Re: Gnus registry error after upgrade, using emacs23

[Dan Christensen]

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

> Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function registry-reindex)
>
> So is that function not defined?  Even if you `(require 'registry)'?

That's right.  In registry.el, it's defined using defmethod, which is
something from eieio.el, so maybe the version of eieio.el shipped with
gnus is too old?

Dan

Re: Gnus registry error after upgrade, using emacs23

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:

> That's right.  In registry.el, it's defined using defmethod, which is
> something from eieio.el, so maybe the version of eieio.el shipped with
> gnus is too old?

I'm unable to reproduce this with Emacs 23.  Are you sure you don't have
bits of older versions of registry/Gnus loaded?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/

Re: Gnus registry error after upgrade, using emacs23

[Dan Christensen]

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

> Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
>
>> That's right.  In registry.el, it's defined using defmethod, which is
>> something from eieio.el, so maybe the version of eieio.el shipped with
>> gnus is too old?
>
> I'm unable to reproduce this with Emacs 23.  Are you sure you don't have
> bits of older versions of registry/Gnus loaded?

I don't think so.  I checked `M-x list-load-path-shadows' and only found
the expected things, e.g. that the git gnus in my home directory shadows
files from emacs 23.2, and that gnus-fallback-lib/eieio/* shadows files
from emacs 23.2.

I just did another test.  I created a new user, started emacs with
"emacs -q --no-site-file" and then evaluated each of these lines
in the *scratch* buffer:

  (add-to-list 'load-path "/tmp/emacs/gnus/lisp")
  (add-to-list 'load-path "/tmp/emacs/gnus/lisp/gnus-fallback-lib/eieio/")
  (require 'registry)

where /tmp/emacs/gnus is a copy of git gnus as of a couple of weeks ago.
When I evaluated the last one, I got a *Compile-Log* buffer containing:

  Error: Not a lambda list: #[(db) "[lots of 8-bit things deleted]" 
  [db data limit --cl-var-- candidates eieio-oref :data 0 :max-hard
  registry-size :prune-factor nil maphash #[(k --cl-var--) "[more deleted]" 
  [k --cl-var--] 2]] 6 "Collects pruning candidates from the registry-db object THIS.
  Proposes any entries over the max-hard limit minus size * prune-factor."]

Here are the eieio files I have:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 jdc jdc  12617 2011-02-21 09:38 eieio-base.el
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jdc jdc   5113 2011-08-30 10:38 eieio-comp.el
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jdc jdc  15808 2011-08-30 10:38 eieio-custom.el
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jdc jdc   4862 2011-02-21 09:38 eieio-datadebug.el
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jdc jdc 117129 2011-08-30 10:38 eieio.el
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jdc jdc  21950 2011-08-30 10:38 eieio-opt.el
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jdc jdc  15789 2011-02-21 09:38 eieio-speedbar.el

And registry.el:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 jdc jdc 18702 2011-08-30 10:38 registry.el

And I'm using

  emacs23 23.2+1-4ubuntu1~ppa3

from 

  https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp/+archive/ppa

Any ideas?

Dan

Re: Gnus registry error after upgrade, using emacs23

[David Engster]

Dan Christensen writes:
>   (add-to-list 'load-path "/tmp/emacs/gnus/lisp/gnus-fallback-lib/eieio/")

Don't do that. You're using Emacs 23.2, which ships with EIEIO and Gnus
will use the Emacs-version during compilation. Using different EIEIO's
for byte-compilation and during runtime is bound to create problems.
You don't need the fallback-libs at all; they're only for Emacs 23.1 and
older.

-David

Re: Gnus registry error after upgrade, using emacs23

[Dan Christensen]

David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:

> Dan Christensen writes:
>>   (add-to-list 'load-path "/tmp/emacs/gnus/lisp/gnus-fallback-lib/eieio/")
>
> Don't do that. You're using Emacs 23.2, which ships with EIEIO and Gnus
> will use the Emacs-version during compilation. Using different EIEIO's
> for byte-compilation and during runtime is bound to create problems.
> You don't need the fallback-libs at all; they're only for Emacs 23.1 and
> older.

Ah, thanks!  I *had* tried the system eieio as well, but that was with
23.1 which I couldn't get working with either the ubuntu provided eieio
or the fallback libs.  Then I upgraded to emacs 23.2, but forgot to
recompile gnus, so I still had trouble with the system provided eieio.
After a fresh compile, it works!

Dan