From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/20995 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: hubert.fauque@wanadoo.fr Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: can't start pgnus 0.75 Date: 04 Feb 1999 19:02:43 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87ognaavy4.fsf@debian.castelnau.fr> References: <87679j4l3f.fsf@debian.castelnau.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.9.1 - "Kurikara") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035159186 20716 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:13:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:13:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA15007 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:04:37 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAB11874; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:03:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 04 Feb 1999 12:03:56 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA10487 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:03:43 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from wanadoo.fr (root@smtp-out-004.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.87]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA14976 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:03:34 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mail@tntmpl14-178.abo.wanadoo.fr [164.138.225.178] by wanadoo.fr for Paris Thu, 4 Feb 1999 19:00:27 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from hubert by debian.castelnau.fr with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 108T6y-000846-00; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 19:02:44 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-info: Emacs tiny tools: ftp://cs.uta.fi/pub/ssjaaa/ In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "03 Feb 1999 16:08:57 +0100") Original-Lines: 62 User-Agent: Semi-gnus/6.8.20 SEMI/1.9.1 (Kurikara) FLIM/1.11.0 (Yamadagawa) Emacs/20.3 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) MULE/4.0 (HANANOEN) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:20995 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:20995 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > > Signaling: (wrong-type-argument listp procmail) > > What is your nnmail-spool-file variable? thanks for your answer; yes that was the problem; I hadn't seen that the nnmail-spool-file variable had changed; it was set to procmail; when setting it to '((directory :path "/home/hubert/.mailspool" :suffix "")) it works; well almost, because I have another problem: In the group buffer, and when I hit Space to enter a group I get the error: Signaling: (void-function gnus-truncate-string) (backtrace below) That seems strange because I have seen that gnus-truncate-string has disappeared from gnus; I supposed that it was loaded by an old version of gnus; I tried to start emacs with a minimum EMACSLOADPATH (/usr/share/emacs/20.3/lisp and I removed the old gnus directory which was in it), no init file (-q), I just eval the following expressions in the *scratch* buffer: (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/src/pgnus-0.75/lisp") load-path)) (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "localhost")) (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnfolder ""))) (setq nnmail-spool-file '((directory :path "/home/hubert/.mailspool" :suffix ""))) (setq nnfolder-directory "~/Mail/") and I do M-x gnus and I still get this error; by grepping through the load-path directory I have seen there is *no* gnus-truncate-string anywhere; I have spent two hours with this and have no idea where it can come from; Hubert Backtrace: (gnus-truncate-string gnus-tmp-name 20) (if (> (string-width gnus-tmp-name) 20) (gnus-truncate-string gnus-tmp-name 20) gnus-tmp-name) (format "%c%4d: %-20s%c" gnus-tmp-opening-bracket gnus-tmp-lines (if (> ... 20) (gnus-truncate-string gnus-tmp-name 20) gnus-tmp-name) gnus-tmp-closing-bracket) (insert (format "%c%4d: %-20s%c" gnus-tmp-opening-bracket gnus-tmp-lines (if ... ... gnus-tmp-name) gnus-tmp-closing-bracket)) (progn (insert (format "%c%4d: %-20s%c" gnus-tmp-opening-bracket gnus-tmp-lines ... gnus-tmp-closing-bracket)) (point)) (gnus-put-text-property (point) (progn (insert ...) (point)) gnus-mouse-face-prop gnus-mouse-face) (progn (insert gnus-tmp-unread gnus-tmp-replied gnus-tmp-score-char gnus-tmp-indentation) (gnus-put-text-property (point) (progn ... ...) gnus-mouse-face-prop gnus-mouse-face) (insert " " gnus-tmp-subject-or-nil "\n")) eval((progn (insert gnus-tmp-unread gnus-tmp-replied gnus-tmp-score-char gnus-tmp-indentation) (gnus-put-text-property (point) (progn ... ...) gnus-mouse-face-prop gnus-mouse-face) (insert " " gnus-tmp-subject-or-nil "\n"))) gnus-summary-prepare-threads((([5 "Re: minicom config" "hubert.fauque@wanadoo.fr" "03 Feb 1999 14:55:06 +0100" "<87lnifiocl.fsf@debian.castelnau.fr>" "<36B72CDF.6D3E4387@binary.net> <87k8xzvk4e.fsf@psyche.evansnet> <19990203132236.B389@achc.demon.co.uk>" 0 18 "debian.castelnau.fr post-mail.1999-02:5" nil]) ([6 "can't start pgnus 0.75" "hubert.fauque@wanadoo.fr" "03 Feb 1999 15:29:08 +0100" "<87679j4l3f.fsf@debian.castelnau.fr>" nil 0 37 "debian.castelnau.fr post-mail.1999-02:6" nil]) ([7 "Re: Bibliographie" "hubert.fauque@wanadoo.fr" "03 Feb 1999 15:31:57 +0100" "<873e4n4kyq.fsf@debian.castelnau.fr>" "<36B85123.3240@inf.enst.fr>" 0 25 "debian.castelnau.fr post-mail.1999-02:7" nil]))) gnus-summary-prepare() q gnus-summary-read-group-1("nnfolder+archive:post-mail.1999-02" nil nil nil nil nil) gnus-summary-read-group("nnfolder+archive:post-mail.1999-02" nil nil nil nil nil nil) gnus-group-read-group(nil) * call-interactively(gnus-group-read-group)