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From: "Steven E. Harris" <seh@panix.com>
Subject: Re: (Yet another stab at) Sharing ~/.newsrc.eld among multiple
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 14:43:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <q67ekwlyv6o.fsf@raytheon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilud6c5f84e.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> If you change it manually, do things work?

No. I edited .newsrc.eld like so:

,----
| (setq gnus-agent-covered-methods '("nnimap+panix" "nnimap+speakeasy"))
`----

Upon startup, Gnus fails on the "nnimap+panix" string:

,----[ *Message-Log* fragment ]
| Opening nnimap server on panix...
| Opening nnimap server on panix...done
| nnimap: Listing subscribed mailboxes on panix...
| nnimap: Listing subscribed mailboxes on panix...done
| Opening nnimap server on speakeasy...
| Opening nnimap server on speakeasy...done
| nnimap: Listing subscribed mailboxes on speakeasy...
| nnimap: Listing subscribed mailboxes on speakeasy...done
| 2 new newsgroups have arrived
| Checking new news...
| Checking new news...done
| Wrong type argument: listp, "nnimap+panix"
`----

Here's the backtrace:

,----
| Signaling: (wrong-type-argument listp "nnimap+panix")
|   gnus-agent-lib-file("flags")
|   gnus-agent-possibly-synchronize-flags()
|   gnus-agent-toggle-plugged(t)
|   gnus-agent-mode()
|   run-hooks(gnus-agent-mode)
|   apply(run-hooks gnus-agent-mode)
|   gnus-run-hooks(gnus-group-mode-hook)
|   gnus-group-mode()
|   gnus-group-setup-buffer()
|   gnus-group-list-groups(nil)
|   byte-code("..." [gnus-slave gnus-current-startup-file gnus-startup-file did-connect level dont-connect gnus-group-quit gnus-run-hooks gnus-startup-hook gnus-make-newsrc-file gnus-dribble-read-file bbb-login add-hook gnus-summary-mode-hook gnus-grouplens-mode gnus-request-create-group "queue" (nndraft "") "drafts" (nndraft "") gnus-setup-news nil gnus-setup-news-hook gnus-start-draft-setup gnus-group-list-groups gnus-group-first-unread-group gnus-configure-windows group gnus-group-set-mode-line gnus-started-hook gnus-use-dribble-file gnus-use-grouplens gnus-agent] 4)
|   gnus-1(nil nil nil)
|   gnus(nil)
|   call-interactively(gnus)
|   command-execute(gnus t)
|   execute-extended-command(nil)
|   call-interactively(execute-extended-command)
`----


> I think I agree that Gnus should be storing a short-form server name
> there.

How do we get there from here?

-- 
Steven E. Harris        :: seh@panix.com



  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-06 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-06 20:03 (Yet another stab at) Sharing ~/.newsrc.eld among multiple machines Steven E. Harris
2003-11-06 22:24 ` (Yet another stab at) Sharing ~/.newsrc.eld among multiple Simon Josefsson
2003-11-06 22:43   ` Steven E. Harris [this message]
2003-11-06 23:49     ` Simon Josefsson
2003-11-06 23:07 ` Kevin Greiner
2003-11-07  1:22   ` Steven E. Harris
2003-11-07  3:22     ` Kevin Greiner

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