Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:

> Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
>
>> Starting current CVS Gnus I get with XEmacs 21.4.13:
>>
>> Signaling: (wrong-type-argument listp t)
>>   gnus-read-active-file-1((nntp "gromit.moeb") nil)
>>
>> Everything works if I go back to:
>> $ cvs up -D 2003-12-20 
>>
>> I can't see directly what's wrong, any ideas?
>
> You could eval `gnus-read-active-file-1' to (possibly) get a better
> backtrace.  Or step through it with edebug to locate the place that
> signals the error.

I didn't get anything useful out of this :-(, my debug knowledge is
too old.

But I did a binary search and the patch that introduces the breakage
is this one:
--- ChangeLog   22 Dec 2003 11:39:06 -0000      6.2712
+++ ChangeLog   22 Dec 2003 14:07:03 -0000      6.2713
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+2003-12-22  Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>
+       * gnus-int.el (gnus-open-server): Fixed the server status such
+       that an agentized server, when opened offline, has a status of
+       offline.  Also fixes bug whereby the agent's backend was called
+       twice to open each server.
+
+       * gnus-start.el (gnus-get-unread-articles-in-group): Autoload
+       gnus-agent-possibly-alter-active rather than inline to resolve
+       compiler warnings.
+
+       * gnus.el (gnus-server-to-method): Added fallback of iterating
+       over gnus-newsrc-alist to resolve names of foreign servers.
+       Should fix recent agent bug.
+

Note that I'm not running agentized at all,

Andreas
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