Re: nnimap against Cyrus imapd just stopped working

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:

>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:
>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:
>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:
>>> [snip!]
>>>> Sigh!  Unless someone knows something clever, I guess this means I
>>>> have a *seriously* trashed .newsrc.eld file, and the only way out of
>>>> this is to create a new one from scratch?

>>> Hm... the problem may not be in the ~/.newsrc.eld at all.  I moved
>>> away the existing ~/.newsrc.eld, and the problem still persists.

>>> Below are the contents of the *Messages* buffer after a startup that
>>> ends with emacs displaying the *Group* buffer after the beep.

>> I set (setq debug-on-error t) and started Gnus in a fresh emacs.  This
>> is the backtrace I got:

>> Signaling: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>> intern(nil [0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0])
>> imap-mailbox-put(permanentflags nil)
>> imap-parse-resp-text-code()
>> imap-parse-resp-text()
>> imap-parse-response()
>> imap-arrival-filter(#<process imap<1>> "* FLAGS (\\Answered \\Flagged \\Draft \\Deleted \\Seen)\r\n* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()]  \r\n* 0 EXISTS\r\n* 0 RECENT\r\n* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1025304220]  \r\n* OK [UIDNEXT 2]  \r\n6 OK [READ-ONLY] Completed\r\n* FLAGS (\\Answered \\Flagged \\Draft \\Deleted \\Seen)\r\n* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()]  \r\n* 16071 EXISTS\r\n* 16071 RECENT\r\n* OK [UNSEEN 1]  \r\n* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1]  \r\n* OK [UIDNEXT 16082]  \r\n7 OK [READ-ONLY] Completed\r\n8 NO Mailbox does not exist\r\n* FLAGS (\\Answered \\Flagged \\Draft \\Deleted \\Seen)\r\n* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()]  \r\n* 0 EXISTS\r\n* 0 RECENT\r\n* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1026364784]  \r\n* OK [UIDNEXT 1]  \r\n9 OK [READ-ONLY] Completed\r\n* FLAGS (\\Answered \\Flagged \\Draft \\Deleted \\Seen)\r\n* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()]  \r\n* 0 EXISTS\r\n* 0 RECENT\r\n* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1026198897]  \r\n* OK [UIDNEXT 1]  \r\n10 OK [READ-ONLY] Completed\r\n11 NO Mailbox does not exist\r\n* FLAGS (\\Answered \\Flagged \\Draft \\Deleted \\Seen)\r\n* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()]  \r\n* 385 EXISTS\r\n* 385 RECENT\r\n* OK [UNSEEN 1]  \r\n* OK [UIDVALIDITY 856603065]  \r\n* OK [UIDNEXT 11839]  \r\n12 OK [READ-ONLY] C")

>> Is the second argument to imap-mailbox-put the cause behind the 
>> error in process filter: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil [2 times]
>> message?

>> What is the second argument to imap-mailbox-put?  C-h f imap-mailbox-put RET
>> gives the following message:
>> imap-mailbox-put is a compiled Lisp function in `imap'.
>> (imap-mailbox-put PROPNAME VALUE &optional MAILBOX BUFFER)
>> not documented

>> Not very useful on what VALUE is.

> I tried edebug-defun on imap-mailbox-put, but I got the beep and the
> error message without the debugger being entered.

I have now tried edebug-defun on all functions on the stack about.  I
tried each of them in a fresh emacs.  None of them caused emacs to
enter the debugger.