From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/84051 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Errors parsing .newsrc Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:04:42 +0700 Message-ID: <87mwj0jg6t.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87y52nb5fi.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <8738ktbm38.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389611016 15709 80.91.229.3 (13 Jan 2014 11:03:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 11:03:36 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M32303@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jan 13 12:03:42 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W2fIv-0001eY-Rx for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:03:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1W2fIF-0001aT-TH; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 05:02:55 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1W2fIE-0001aE-51 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 05:02:54 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1W2fIC-0008Ps-5c for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 05:02:53 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W2fIA-0008W8-48 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:02:50 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W2fI9-0000cA-PD for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:02:49 +0100 Original-Received: from ppp-61-90-32-217.revip.asianet.co.th ([61.90.32.217]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:02:49 +0100 Original-Received: from eric by ppp-61-90-32-217.revip.asianet.co.th with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:02:49 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-61-90-32-217.revip.asianet.co.th User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6/pfjW5zV6B9iQOpRiDVqzmo+vQ= X-Spam-Score: -2.0 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:84051 Archived-At: Chris Warburton writes: > On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Eric Abrahamsen > 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!