From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/82369 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johnny Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: gnus-timer--function is void (was Re: Gnus freezes on startup) Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:04:36 +0100 Message-ID: <87sj9qe323.fsf@gmx.co.uk> References: <20120926203300.222980@gmx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349622379 22750 80.91.229.3 (7 Oct 2012 15:06:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 15:06:19 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30635@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Oct 07 17:06:24 2012 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 1TKsQv-0000nj-0W for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 17:06:21 +0200 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 1TKsPT-0006jS-74; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:04:51 -0500 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 1TKsPQ-0006jD-0F for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:04:48 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TKsPN-0006Xs-Mt for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:04:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-eu.gmx.com ([213.165.64.43]) by quimby.gnus.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TKsPL-00005B-SY for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2012 17:04:43 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 Oct 2012 15:04:37 -0000 Original-Received: from host86-190-98-49.wlms-broadband.com (EHLO deusexmachina) [86.190.98.49] by mail.gmx.com (mp-eu006) with SMTP; 07 Oct 2012 17:04:37 +0200 X-Authenticated: #57368918 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/iFKkiaLniqO1/5cAvpHC/kDG7aLbd0qbAuy/czw 8wpKxZmX0QaqD4 In-Reply-To: <20120926203300.222980@gmx.com> (Johnny Carlsson's message of "Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:32:59 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:82369 Archived-At: Thanks all for the pointers in faultfinding the Gnus freeze (below), I have finally got Gnus back working (re-install of F17, it was about time anyhow). There is one final bit I don't get; after installing Ma Gnus v0.6 I cannot open any messages from the summary buffer as I get the error message 'gnus-timer--function is void'. I can see this is defined in gnus-utils.el ,---- | (if (fboundp 'timer--function) | (defalias 'gnus-timer--function 'timer--function) | (defun gnus-timer--function (timer) | (elt timer 5))) `---- The load path is set correctly I assume (as it picks up Ma Gnus correctly) and I have the 'require gnus-load' in .init.el: ,---- | (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/local/share/emacs/gnus/lisp") | (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/local/share/emacs/gnus/contrib") | (require 'gnus-load) `---- I 'solved' the issue by copying the part from gnus-utils.el to my init.el, but this doesn't seem right. Am I missing something here? Thanks, Johhny "Johnny Carlsson" writes: > Hi all, > > Recently I have been unable to start gnus on my machine and am > completely unable to debug why. This was around two weeks ago - > incidentally I created a dual-boot windows partition for the first > time in years, but however keen to blame this I don't see any obvious > correlation... > > Problem is as the heading - I start emacs successfully, then do M-x > gnus. The nice logo shows up, but keeps me gazing at it while nothing > seems to happen and I have to kill the process from the terminal. > > I am running a customised F17 LXDE system with emacs 24.1.1 and used > NoGnus (version unknown...). When the problem occured, I recalled > seeing a "warning: package gg-gg is obsolete", so I removed my gnus > and fetched the latest version from git. Attempting ./configure and > make, this freezes just after building compface.el, so I just used the > .el files. Gnus still froze on startup. So I removed all custom gnus > to fallback to the distro version of gnus (5.13). Gnus still freezes > on start. Believing the issue might be in some corrupted file, I > removed all gnus customisation in the emacs init file and renamed > ".gnus.el, newsrc.eld, News, and Mail" believing this should use > defaults for everything. Still freezes. Final attempt using > --no-server option, still freezing. > > I have no idea where to start to get some traces or ideas how to fault > find from here, and any ideas will be /very/ appreciated! As Gnus is > my primary mail reader, and filter, there's no way to keep up with any > mailing lists - please wide reply to my secondary e-mail as well... > > It is possible I have botched my system in other ways by fiddling with Windows, virtualisation and what not, but everything else works fine. > > Cheers, > > Johnny > -- Johnny