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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE writes:

> Some users at my site have the problem that they cannot start Gnus, it
> shows the splash screen then bugs out with a message saying that
> gnus-methods-equal-p is a void function.
> 
> Putting (require 'gnus-sum) in ~/.gnus or ~/.emacs solves the problem.

Well, that function is only used in gnus-sum, so that's weird.

> I don't have this problem, so I cannot really say more.  Lars, do you
> want one of those users to send you a bug report so that you can see
> their settings?

Send me a backtrace.

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