From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/19824 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: "Trying to require a method that doesn't exist" Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 00:24:41 GMT Organization: mobile Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035158104 13613 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:55:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:55:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA17483 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 19:26:04 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA31461; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 18:25:35 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 12 Dec 1998 18:25:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA17383 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 18:25:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (sunsite.auc.dk [130.225.51.30]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA17467 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 19:25:19 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 20473 invoked by uid 509); 13 Dec 1998 00:25:13 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding User-Agent: Gnus/5.070065 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.65) Emacs/20.3 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.72.160.15 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@sunsite.auc.dk Original-X-Trace: sunsite.auc.dk 913508681 12.72.160.15 (Sun, 13 Dec 1998 01:24:41 MET DST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 01:24:41 MET DST Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 54 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19824 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19824 Mike McEwan writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > > > Signaling: (error "Trying to require a method that doesn't exist") > > signal(error ("Trying to require a method that doesn't exist")) > > error("Trying to require a method that doesn't exist") > > gnus-server-opened((nil "")) > > Well isn't that the problem right there? `(nil "")'. There's no such > method as `nil' and hence `gnus-get-function' issues the message. That > should probably be `(nnml "")'. The select method for a group is held > in the group's info, which is in (guess :-)), .newsrc.eld. You'll > probably have to reset all your groups up again from scratch, or go > edit the affected group's infos with a `G E'. If that's not it - > what do your select-methods look like (parenthesis and all :-)). Thanks Mike, The same thing happened again today. Stopping all use of gnus. Your clues led me to find an improper entry in .newsrc.eld in the section that holds the Group Information. Begins with: "(setq gnus-newsrc-alist ......" One of the nnml group entries looks like this: ("nnml:mail.Barb" 3 ((1 . 1)) ((reply 1)) "nnml:") Where as others have the proper form like so: ("nnml:mail.misc" 3 ((1 . 53) (57 . 57)) ((reply 53)) (nnml "")) Notice the last part with "nnml" is formatted differently. I changed the Barb group to: ("nnml:mail.Barb" 3 ((1 . 1)) ((reply 1)) (nnml "")) And Gnus will start again. But still haven't figured out what I am doing to cause the improper format to show up every few days. Seems it may be related to Group parameter settings. Looking back I see each time it has occured it has involved a group where I have set some Group Params. Mostly just "gcc-self" and "to-address" I don't see anything obvious there. At least now I know what to look for, and how to edit it. Anyone have an idea what might be the underlying cause? -- Harry Putnam Running Redhat Linux 5.1 .