From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14267 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: No "unplugged" Date: 24 Feb 1998 13:41:05 +0000 Organization: none Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153486 13895 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:38:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:38:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA28440 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 13:45:35 -0800 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA29437 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:43:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAO18479; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:43:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:41:44 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA18466 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:41:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 11610 invoked by uid 504); 24 Feb 1998 21:41:26 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 11607 invoked from network); 24 Feb 1998 21:41:25 -0000 Original-Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 24 Feb 1998 21:41:25 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 27336 invoked by uid 509); 24 Feb 1998 21:41:12 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding Original-Lines: 65 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pm7-18.sba1.avtel.net Original-X-Trace: sunsite.auc.dk 888356471 26609 (None) 207.71.222.168 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@sunsite.auc.dk X-Newsreader: Quassia Gnus v0.29/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14267 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14267 Following the outline in manual as to how to start gnus and get plugged or unplugged etc. I am unable to get unplugged and do any thing. >>From previos messages posted here I have this in .gnus > (gnus-agentize)) > And this in .emacs: > (autoload 'gnus-unplugged "gnus-agent" nil t) > > Still, starting gnus with M-x gnus-unplugged or even running M-x load-library gnus-agent then M-x gnus-unplugged, either way the same error occurs: > Wrong type argument: stringp, nnagent-active-file This happens whether or not I am actually on line. The back trace is quite long so didn't include it. I did select which servers for "agent" to operate on (mine and sunsite.auc.dk and nnml:drafts) It seems the only way I can start gnus is the regular way, M-x gnus . Once gnus comes up, I can see "plugged" on the mode line and am able to do normal things. So, tried J j (unplugged) from there-- the mode line changes to 'unplugged' But any attempt to access an nntp group (nnml is ok) gives this message: > Couldn't open server I suspect some of the problem may be an attempt I made to set up the "agent catagories" with out nowing how. Now when I attempt to access that buffer with 'J c', this error comes up: > wrong-type-argument sequencep non-nil And this back trace: > Signaling: (wrong-type-argument sequencep non-nil) > gnus-category-insert-line((spam true nil non-nil)) > gnus-category-prepare() > gnus-enter-category-buffer() > * call-interactively(gnus-enter-category-buffer) > It seems most, on this list, are running agent effortlessly so am assuming my cobbling is responsible. I hope some one will contact me privately with an outline of how getting agent to run works, that is a little more detailed than the manual. The problems and ideas under discussion here seem at much higher level than the basic problems I am having so would like to get some help privately so as not to continue posting 'Howto' problems here. The 'catagories' thing seems quite a mystery. But can't I just run on defaults or something to see how it all is supposed to work? Is there a way to reset the default catagories?