[SOLVED+POSSIBLE REASON] (was: [PB] Scores Take II)

["Adam Przepiórkowski" <adamp@ipipan.waw.pl>]

Xavier Maillard <zedek <at> gnu-rox.org> writes:

> I investigated more deeply. My problem came from recent addition
> (by me) of BBDB (using Debian package).
> 
> The error is due to a single variable I used for ages. I
> gommented it out and it now works !!
> 
> Hard to say why it is broken though since I did not investigate
> deeper.

I've had a similar '(wrong-type-argument symbolp 5)' when entering a gnus group
and the culprit turned out to be a wrong entry in my .bbdb file, namely
something like (the name and address changed, of course):

["John" "Doe" nil nil nil nil ("\"johndoe@doe.doe.pl\"@poczta.va.com.pl")
((creation-date . "2005-09-23") (timestamp . "2005-09-23")) nil]

instead of:

["John" "Doe" nil nil nil nil ("johndoe@doe.doe.pl") ((creation-date .
"2005-09-23") (timestamp . "2005-09-23")) nil]

This entry was automatically added to .bbdb by bbdb/gnus-show-sender, because of
the following address among the recipients:

"John Doe" <"johndoe@doe.doe.pl"@poczta.va.com.pl>

HTH.

Adam P.