error in gnus-compress-sequence on group exit

error in gnus-compress-sequence on group exit

[Reiner Steib]

Hi,

today (CVS Oort from today, 12:31 CET), I got an error on group exit
(`q' in the summary buffer).  I couldn't exit the group anymore.  I
had to `C-x b *Group* RET' and quit from there.  Unfortunately, I'm
not able to reproduce it.  Nevertheless, here's want I did:

(a) View a mail with an application/msword attachment.

(b) Cursor on the attachment button and press 
    `t application/msword-catdoc RET' (I have a mailcap entry for this:
    application/msword-catdoc; catdoc -s 8859-1 -d 8859-1 %s; \
    copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.doc

(c) Mark some text from the doc-file output and reply (`R')

(d) Send the mail (C-c C-c)

(e) `q' in the summary buffer gave me this backtrace:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p
  (75 "sch\x8f6n, da\x8df Ihr 
  [... some text stripped ...]                                      [1]
  ein sch\x8f6nes Wochenende mit Euch."))
  gnus-compress-sequence(((75 "sch\x8f6n, da\x8df Ihr an meinem
  [... some text stripped ...]                                      [1]
  ein sch\x8f6nes Wochenende mit Euch. \n")) t)
  gnus-update-marks()
  gnus-summary-update-info(t)
  gnus-summary-save-newsrc(t)
  (lambda nil (gnus-summary-save-newsrc t))()
  run-hooks(gnus-exit-group-hook)                                   [2]
  apply(run-hooks gnus-exit-group-hook)
  gnus-run-hooks(gnus-exit-group-hook)
  gnus-summary-exit()
  call-interactively(gnus-summary-exit)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

At [1] was the text from the attachment.  Probably exactly the part
that I marked before, see step (c).

[2] I've tested the hook mentioned in
    <news:v9el75uw23.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> at his time.

Bye, Reiner.

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Re: error in gnus-compress-sequence on group exit

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net> writes:

> (a) View a mail with an application/msword attachment.
>
> (b) Cursor on the attachment button and press 
>     `t application/msword-catdoc RET' (I have a mailcap entry for this:
>     application/msword-catdoc; catdoc -s 8859-1 -d 8859-1 %s; \
>     copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.doc
>
> (c) Mark some text from the doc-file output and reply (`R')
>
> (d) Send the mail (C-c C-c)
>
> (e) `q' in the summary buffer gave me this backtrace:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p
>   (75 "sch\x8f6n, da\x8df Ihr 

I've seen this bug myself, but I'm not able to reproduce it, and I
haven't found out just exactly what's happening.

Something puts something invalid into `gnus-newsgroup-replied'.  Upon
group exit, you see the bug, but that's a result of what happens when
you send the mail, as you've described.

Are you able to reproduce this bug in a simpler fashion -- something
that doesn't involve Word files?  :-)

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: error in gnus-compress-sequence on group exit

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Jan 24 2003, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> I've seen this bug myself, but I'm not able to reproduce it, and I
> haven't found out just exactly what's happening.
[...]
> Are you able to reproduce this bug in a simpler fashion -- something
> that doesn't involve Word files?  :-)

No, I wasn't able to reproduce it with the same message.  But if I
can, I'll post a test case here.

Bye, Reiner.
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