From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/19791 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: "Trying to require a method that doesn't exist" Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:04:29 GMT Organization: mobile Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035158076 13384 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:54:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:54:36 +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 OAA15757 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 14:37:19 -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 NAA23967; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 13:05:44 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 10 Dec 1998 13:05:51 -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 NAA24430 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 13:05:35 -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 OAA15179 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 14:05:24 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 4947 invoked by uid 509); 10 Dec 1998 19:05:10 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding User-Agent: Gnus/5.070064 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.64) Emacs/20.3 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.72.160.101 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@sunsite.auc.dk Original-X-Trace: sunsite.auc.dk 913316669 12.72.160.101 (Thu, 10 Dec 1998 20:04:29 MET DST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 20:04:29 MET DST Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 58 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19791 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19791 problem that produces this message: "Trying to require a method that doesn't exit" This is a recent Redhat Linux 5.1 install on a Toshiba laptop 4005CDS (pentium II 266) Running pgnus-0.64, currently. Each time this problem has cropped up I've tried going back to gnus-5.6.45 and a few in between, but once I start getting this message gnus will not start. Soon after pressing "M-x gnus" comes the message. With my poor understanding of gnus functioning the only way I have gotten around it is to rename .newsrc.eld then let gnus generate another one. Add an nnml server and let it regenerate. Doing it this way looses track of read and unread in the newsgroups but also looses the "group parameter" info on nnml groups. Although the mail is retained in tact, any special marks etc are lost. This hasn't been to big a problem since I haven't run the laptop enough to have much to lose. However I'd like to know what is causing the problem. I only saved the most recent back-trace which is included below, but the others also contained a line about a nnml group scan (group "Dan" below") each time a different group. It didn't seem to me that nnml scans should be happening yet, but of course thats just a wild guess. Back Trace (byte-code long-lines chopped but not changed): 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 "")) gnus-activate-group("nnml:mail.Dan" scan) gnus-get-unread-articles(nil) gnus-setup-news(nil nil nil) byte-code("„ ˆÓ!ˆÔ ˆÕÖ!ˆ× ˆÇØ!ˆÐ‡" [dont-connect did-connect gnus-startup-file gnus-current-startup-file gnus-slave gnus-use-dribble-file 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-grouplens level] 4) gnus-1(nil nil nil) gnus(nil) call-interactively(gnus) execute-extended-command(nil) * call-interactively(execute-extended-command) Haven't been able to identify specific conditions that obtain when this happens. -- Harry Putnam Running Redhat Linux 5.1 .