From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: message about errors in .newsrc.eld on startup
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:26:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r8c0tnjh.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d6stx1jr.fsf@home.lan>
Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
> When I start up Gnus, I get the error message
> Error in /home/sb/.newsrc.eld; continue? (yes or no)
>
> When I type "yes" and press RET, everything seems to work normally.
> But the message is annoying. Does anyone have a good trick to trace
> it down and fix it manually?
>
> Perhaps we need a .newsrc.eld well formedness/syntax checker?
Well, that's what you're seeing, basically. :-)
These errors are usually the result of moving between different
X/Emacs versions that use different read syntaxaei. The cruft is
usually at the end of the .newsrc.eld file.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-29 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-08 7:16 Steinar Bang
2002-12-29 23:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2002-12-30 22:36 ` Steinar Bang
2002-12-30 22:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-02 17:36 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-01-02 18:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-03 15:43 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-04 2:06 ` Jesper Harder
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