Error sending attached files

[Michael Baer <gnus@mikesoffice.com>]

Hi,

I've been having an error when sending attached files with gnus
email that has been driving me crazy.  I was hoping someone on this
list might have some insight into the problem.  It is somewhat
inconsistent and seems to happen more often with pdf and MS Word
files.  If it happens with a file, it won't send that file and will
continue to fail on repeated tries.  Although, if I reopen and save
a doc again with Openoffice or convert a pdf to something else, it
often will send the new file.  I usually attach the file with
mml-attach-file (C-c C-a), but when I try to send I get the error
message below:

Invalid operation: No more character sets free for this dimension, 1

The error message is kind of amusing, but doesn't really make much
sense to me in this context.

I'm using a Fedora 9 on a PPC platform, and I was using the version
of gnus that is standard on F9 (I forget what version gnus is, it's
xemacs 21.5.28-6) but I switched to the source gnus-5.10.10 with no
noticeable change in this error.

The debug on error output is:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-operation "No more character sets free for this dimension" 1)
  insert-file-contents-internal("~/wtemp/scan/temp.pdf" nil nil nil nil undecided used-codesys)
  byte-code("..." [buffer-file-coding-system-for-read coding-system-for-read return-val visit filename coding-system run-hook-with-args insert-file-contents-access-hook run-hook-with-args-until-success insert-file-contents-pre-hook find-file-coding-system-for-read-from-filename raw-text find-coding-system lwarn notice "Invalid coding-system (%s), using 'undecided" undecided insert-file-contents-internal used-codesys start end replace] 9)
  insert-file-contents("~/wtemp/scan/temp.pdf" nil nil nil nil)
  mm-insert-file-contents("~/wtemp/scan/temp.pdf" nil nil nil nil t)
  mml-compute-boundary-1((part (type . "application/pdf") (filename . "~/wtemp/scan/temp.pdf") (disposition . "attachment") (description . "temp.pdf") (tag-location . 305) (contents . "")))
  mapcar(mml-compute-boundary-1 ((part (type . "application/pdf") (filename . "~/wtemp/scan/temp.pdf") (disposition . "attachment") (description . "temp.pdf") (tag-location . 305) (contents . "")) (part (type . "text/plain") (contents . "\n\n-- \nMichael Baer\nbaerm@mikesoffice.com\n"))))
  mml-compute-boundary-1((multipart (type . "mixed") (part (type . "application/pdf") (filename . "~/wtemp/scan/temp.pdf") (disposition . "attachment") (description . "temp.pdf") (tag-location . 305) (contents . "")) (part (type . "text/plain") (contents . "\n\n-- \nMichael Baer\nbaerm@mikesoffice.com\n"))))
  mml-compute-boundary((multipart (type . "mixed") (part (type . "application/pdf") (filename . "~/wtemp/scan/temp.pdf") (disposition . "attachment") (description . "temp.pdf") (tag-location . 305) (contents . "")) (part (type . "text/plain") (contents . "\n\n-- \nMichael Baer\nbaerm@mikesoffice.com\n"))))
  mml-generate-mime-1((multipart (type . "mixed") (part (type . "application/pdf") (filename . "~/wtemp/scan/temp.pdf") (disposition . "attachment") (description . "temp.pdf") (tag-location . 305) (contents . "")) (part (type . "text/plain") (contents . "\n\n-- \nMichael Baer\nbaerm@mikesoffice.com\n"))))
  mml-generate-mime()
  message-encode-message-body()
  message-send-mail(nil)
  message-send-via-mail(nil)
  message-send(nil)
  message-send-and-exit(nil)
  call-interactively(message-send-and-exit)

It's not making much sens to me, but any suggestions would
definitely be appreciated,

Thanks,
Mike

-- 
Michael Baer
gnus@mikesoffice.com