On 17 Jul 1999, Kai [iso-8859-1] Großjohann wrote:

| Type M-x toggle-debug-on-error RET then try to reproduce the problem.
| The resulting backtrace will be more informative than the short message.

Yes, of course.  I panicked, is all.  I'll do that next time.

| > So where's the group?  Ain't there.  [After creating one with a "B m" to a
| > nonexistent group]
| 
| Try hitting `F' to tell Gnus to look for it.  Maybe the group is
| killed?  Type `A k' for a list of killed groups.  Maybe the group is a
| zombie?  Type `A z' for a list of zombie groups.

None of the above works.  But subsequently creating the group does work, so
there's at least that.  I do wish it would create a new group properly in the
Group buffer, though.  :)