Is there a new agent bug?

Is there a new agent bug?

[Harry Putnam]

I quit using the agent for a while but now wanted to start fresh
again.

The steps I took were to close gnus down.  Get cvs updated, then
rename ~/News/agent to ~/News/agentX   and restart gnus, having
uncommented (gnus-agentize) in ~/.gnus.

First thing I noticed was that our gnu had shed his red coat and grew
a white one.... Has that been changed or is this the first indicator
of some local screw up?

Other things seemed to be working, and the needed directories: agent and
sub directories were created, except no agent/lib appeared.

I thought maybe that only happened if I did something with the agent
category interface (`J C' in group buffer)

So proceeded to call `J C' in group buffer.  There I see the expected
   default:0
So pressing `p' to edit the predicate, I see `nil', so I enter `true'
and remove `nil'.  Attempting to save that edit buffer gives this
back trace:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument consp nil)
  setcar(nil true)
  (lambda (predicate) (setcar (cdr ...) predicate) (gnus-category-write) (gnus-category-list))(true)
  gnus-edit-form-done()
  call-interactively(gnus-edit-form-done)

Creating the News/agent/lib  directory by hand doesn't help.  I get
the same backtrace

Can anyone confirm that there is a problem there?  Or is it something local?

Re: Is there a new agent bug?

[Kai Großjohann]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> First thing I noticed was that our gnu had shed his red coat and grew
> a white one.... Has that been changed or is this the first indicator
> of some local screw up?

Well, it _is_ Oort Gnus now.  And the pictures of Oort are not really
so red.

It's cool, it's far-out, it's Oort!

kai
-- 
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Re: Is there a new agent bug?

[Harry Putnam]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
>> First thing I noticed was that our gnu had shed his red coat and grew
>> a white one.... Has that been changed or is this the first indicator
>> of some local screw up?
>
> Well, it _is_ Oort Gnus now.  And the pictures of Oort are not really
> so red.
>
> It's cool, it's far-out, it's Oort!

But it ort to be red..

After all the parts that are going away from us are supposed to be
red-shifted.  Or Mr. Doppler will turn over in his grave.

Re: Is there a new agent bug?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> It's cool, it's far-out, it's Oort!

Hm...  Perhaps that's the third sentence I wanted.

"It's big.  It's cool.  It's far out."

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Is there a new agent bug?

[Kai Großjohann]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> It's cool, it's far-out, it's Oort!
>
> Hm...  Perhaps that's the third sentence I wanted.
>
> "It's big.  It's cool.  It's far out."

I'm happy to serve as your memory :-)

kai
-- 
Simplification good!  Oversimplification bad!  (Larry Wall)

Re: Is there a new agent bug?

[Paul Stodghill]

>>>>> "Harry" == Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
    Harry> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument consp nil)
    Harry>   setcar(nil true) (lambda (predicate) (setcar (cdr ...)
    Harry>   predicate) (gnus-category-write)
    Harry>   (gnus-category-list))(true) gnus-edit-form-done()
    Harry>   call-interactively(gnus-edit-form-done)

    Harry> Creating the News/agent/lib directory by hand doesn't help. I
    Harry> get the same backtrace

    Harry> Can anyone confirm that there is a problem there? Or is it
    Harry> something local?

I see this too with a non-cvs version of 0.04. I believe that this is
the correct fix,

--- lisp/gnus-agent.el.orig2	Wed Jan  9 14:45:57 2002
+++ lisp/gnus-agent.el	Wed Jan  9 14:47:49 2002
@@ -1378,7 +1378,7 @@
     (gnus-category-position-point)))
 
 (defun gnus-category-name ()
-  (or (get-text-property (gnus-point-at-bol) 'gnus-category)
+  (or (intern (get-text-property (gnus-point-at-bol) 'gnus-category))
       (error "No category on the current line")))
 
 (defun gnus-category-read ()

Re: Is there a new agent bug?

[Harry Putnam]

Paul Stodghill <stodghil@cs.cornell.edu> writes:

> I see this too with a non-cvs version of 0.04. I believe that this is
> the correct fix,

Right on Paul... It cured my problems too.  Maybe someone will cvs this soon.

Re: Is there a new agent bug?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Paul Stodghill <stodghil@cs.cornell.edu> writes:

> I see this too with a non-cvs version of 0.04. I believe that this is
> the correct fix,

Thanks for the patch; I've applied it to Oort Gnus v0.05 (i. e., CVS).

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen