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Subject: Re: [Solved] Gnus won't start: error on gnus-group-change-level
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Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> writes:

> I wrote to early, I was able to solve the problem.  In the
> .newsrc-dribble file, I found several lines that looked like:
>
>   gnus-group-change-level(nil nil 9 "INBOX.saved.ace5" t)
>
> The first two arguments were nil.  I just removed these lines and now
> can startup gnus just fine. 

I've seen this problem recently too, using
gnus-version "Gnus v5.10.7"
and emacs-version "21.5  (beta23) \"daikon\" (+CVS-20051031) XEmacs Lucid"

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Adrian Aichner
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