From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68327 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: GNU Emacs 23.0.90.4 (2009-02-21) -- backtraces on startup Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:25:19 +0900 Organization: Emacsen advocacy group Message-ID: References: <873ae7mnwz.fsf@freebits.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235381209 26749 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2009 09:26:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:26:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bugs@gnus.org, ding@gnus.org To: "Tobias C. Rittweiler" Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16767@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Feb 23 10:28:05 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LbX6a-0005I8-Q0 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:28:05 +0100 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 1LbX4j-0003Gm-5K; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:26:09 -0600 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 1LbX4g-0003GP-6b for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:26:06 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LbX4c-0000am-U0 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:26:06 -0600 Original-Received: from orlando.hostforweb.net ([216.246.45.90]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LbX4x-0005Z6-00; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:26:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42361) by orlando.hostforweb.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LbX43-00005Q-U3; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:25:28 -0600 X-Hashcash: 1:20:090223:tcr@freebits.de::vTfcUpt1hEMENcqh:0033zn X-Hashcash: 1:20:090223:bugs@gnus.org::TJiyqxpqYXrZR+8K:00002/f2 X-Hashcash: 1:20:090223:ding@gnus.org::2coCXAUSHGi8hfLb:00006UWI X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`;Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu;B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:d0IDzFMbtrWVlDB6oOI+DpTm8a4= X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - orlando.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnus.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jpl.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68327 Archived-At: >>>>> 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