From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
To: "Tobias C. Rittweiler" <tcr@freebits.de>
Cc: bugs@gnus.org, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs 23.0.90.4 (2009-02-21) -- backtraces on startup
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:25:19 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4m63j1ec8w.fsf@jpl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873ae7mnwz.fsf@freebits.de>
>>>>> Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:
> No Gnus v0.6
> GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
> of 2008-03-19 on vernadsky, modified by Debian
> 200 news.gmane.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.1 ready (posting ok).
> _NOTICE_ the above the version information for the Emacs I'm writing
> this bug report in, the bug is actually for
> GNU Emacs 23.0.90.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9) of
> 2009-02-21 on thaleron
> I.e. the GNU Emacs version checked out an our ago.
> emacs -Q --eval '(progn (toggle-debug-on-error) (gnus))' first asks me
> Unable to open nntp:news, go offline? (y or n)
> pressing `n', then it asks me
> nntp (news) open error: ''. Continue? (y or n)
> pressing `y' results in the following backtrace:
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid buffer type: if")
> signal(error ("Invalid buffer type: if"))
> error("Invalid buffer type: %s" if)
> gnus-all-windows-visible-p((vertical 1.0 (group 1.0 point) (if gnus-carpal (quote ...))))
> gnus-configure-windows(group)
> byte-code("^H\204^N
Google search for "Invalid buffer type: if" lists similar troubles.
For example:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs-snapshot/+bug/293711
I suspect the elc files have been mis-compiled. Have you done it
by yourself (i.e. having built Emacs 23.0.90.4 from the source)?
Otherwise, could you try re-compiling the Gnus elc files? To do
that, well, I don't know the proper way, but:
$ cp -pr /usr/share/emacs/23.0.90/lisp/gnus /tmp
$ cd /tmp/gnus
$ gunzip *.gz
$ touch *.el
$ emacs -batch -q -f batch-byte-recompile-directory
$ cp *.elc /usr/share/emacs/23.0.90/lisp/gnus
$ cd /tmp
$ rm -fr gnus
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2009-02-23 9:25 ` Katsumi Yamaoka [this message]
2009-02-23 12:06 ` Tobias C. Rittweiler
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