From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45697 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vin Shelton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Error when restarting gnus Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 22:52:29 -0400 Organization: EtherSoft, Inc Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026874715 21066 127.0.0.1 (17 Jul 2002 02:58:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 02:58:35 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Uf1O-0005Tf-00 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 04:58:34 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17Ueye-0002QK-00; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:55:44 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:56:08 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA08267 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:55:56 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 16291 invoked by alias); 17 Jul 2002 02:55:26 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 16286 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2002 02:55:26 -0000 Original-Received: from 209-122-246-15.c3-0.nwt-ubr2.sbo-nwt.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO zion.rcn.com) (209.122.246.15) by gnus.org with SMTP; 17 Jul 2002 02:55:26 -0000 Original-Received: by zion.rcn.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 85D5A128C4; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 22:52:29 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Vin Shelton's message of "Thu, 11 Jul 2002 06:39:38 -0400") Original-Lines: 77 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45697 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45697 Sorry to follow-up my own post, but I've gotten no responses. Since I changed: (setq ... gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "") (nnfolder)) to: ... (nnfolder "")) I have not seen the error again. I hope that this really is the correct fix, and that this report can prove useful to anyone else who has the same problem in the future. Vin Shelton writes: > I recently added nnfolder to my list of backends. If I let gnus sit > idle for an hour or so, then quit gnus and restart it, here is the > backtrace I get: > > > Signaling: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) > insert-file-contents-internal(nil nil nil nil nil nil nil) > insert-file-contents(nil) > byte-code("..." [file coding-system-for-read auto-mode-alist file-name-coding-system nnmail-pathname-coding-system nnmail-file-coding-system mm-auto-mode-alist insert-file-contents t] 3) > nnmail-find-file(nil) > nnfolder-request-list(nil) > gnus-request-list((nnfolder)) > gnus-read-active-file-1((nnfolder) nil) > gnus-read-active-file(nil nil) > gnus-setup-news(nil nil nil) > byte-code("..." [gnus-slave gnus-current-startup-file gnus-startup-file did-connect level dont-connect gnus-group-quit gnus-run-hooks gnus-startup-hook gnus-make-newsrc-file gnus-dribble-read-file bbb-login add-hook gnus-summary-mode-hook gnus-grouplens-mode gnus-setup-news nil gnus-setup-news-hook gnus-start-draft-setup gnus-group-list-groups gnus-group-first-unread-group gnus-configure-windows group gnus-group-set-mode-line gnus-started-hook gnus-use-dribble-file gnus-use-grouplens] 4) > gnus-1(nil nil nil) > gnus(nil) > call-interactively(gnus) > command-execute(gnus t) > execute-extended-command(nil) > call-interactively(execute-extended-command) > > > I'm running a gnus built from CVS on July 9, under XEmacs 21.4. > Here's the part of my .gnus.el file that deals with nnfolder: > > (setq nnfolder-directory "~/Mail/archive") > (setq gnus-parameters > '(("nnfolder:xemacs-patches\\..*" > ; Setting gnus-visible-headers has no effect. > ; Ideally, we would just add Message-id to gnus-visible-headers, > ; so I can use 'msgid' to save the message. > ; I'll make all headers visible instead (yuck!). > ; (gnus-visible-headers "^From:\\|^Newsgroups:\\|^Subject:\\|^Date:\\|^Summary:\\|^Keywords:\\|^To:\\|^[BGF]?Cc:\\|^Posted-To:\\|^Resent-From:\\|^X-Sent:\\|^Message-[Ii][Dd]:") > (gnus-show-all-headers t) > (gnus-large-newsgroup 2000) > (display . all)))) > (setq gnus-move-split-methods > '(((equal gnus-newsgroup-name "gnu.emacs.sources") "nnml:emacs") > ((equal gnus-newsgroup-name "rec.humor.funny") "nnml:humor")) > nnmail-spool-file acs::mailspool > nnmail-keep-last-article nil ; t if using exmh > ; nnmail-delete-incoming nil ; save a copy of incoming mail > gnus-secondary-select-methods > '((nnml "") > (nnfolder)) > nnmh-get-new-mail nil > nnmh-be-safe t > nnml-get-new-mail t > gnus-treat-display-smileys nil ; don't smilify by default > gnus-large-newsgroup 1000) > > What am I doing wrong? > > Thanks in advance, > Vin - Vin