From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Errors parsing .newsrc
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:04:42 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mwj0jg6t.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMdGyq_vsY7PpbartNu-wLajectSD2c+Ury5bydz2vvT=Qu1zg@mail.gmail.com>
Chris Warburton <chriswarbo@googlemail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Eric Abrahamsen
> <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>
>>>> I don't even have a .newsrc here, just the .newsrc.eld. If you've *also*
>>>> got the .newsrc.eld, you could try setting gnus-read-newsrc-file to nil
>>>> temporarily, which will have it ignore the plain old .newsrc.
>>>
>>> I tried that but it didn't help I'm afraid :(
>>
>> But you reported problems in gnus-newsrc-to-gnus-format... If you've
>> removed or ignored that file, how is it still not working?
>
> Ah, I've tried setting gnus-read-newsrc-file again and Gnus is now
> loading :) I thought I'd
> already tried this, after reading the "Startup Files" section of the
> manual, but I probably
> copy/pasted the wrong variable name and set gnus-save-newsrc-file to
> nil instead!
Glad it's working!
> Many thanks for helping me get up and running! I'm happy to experiment
> and find the cause
> if anyone cares. Otherwise I'll just add it to the long list of things
> I've had to fix after an
> Ubuntu upgrade (PulseAudio, Perl, MySQL, apt, ....!)
Try Arch linux -- things just break a little bit, continuously. It
spreads the pain out!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-13 11:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-10 11:51 Chris Warburton
2014-01-11 2:47 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-01-11 13:09 ` Chris Warburton
2014-01-12 9:12 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-01-13 9:20 ` Chris Warburton
2014-01-13 11:04 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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