From: Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com>
Subject: Huh? "Trying to require a method that doesn't exist"?
Date: 23 Dec 1998 15:50:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vxku2ymshvj.fsf@beaver.jprc.com> (raw)
I've been tasked with trying to set up a (somewhat) generic profile
for new Gnus users, specifically to make a little pre-defined sense of
mail groups' setup.
So I've created a dummy account in which I've placed my own .emacs and
.gnus.el, and stripped the deeper weirdnesses out of them. I've got
it down to something that's comparatively simple. M-x gnus RET works
fine, and Gnus is correctly dropping mail from me in "personal.jprc"
without problem.
However, when I start up with M-x gnus-no-server RET, confusion reigns:
Signaling: (error "Trying to require a method that doesn't exist")
signal(error ("Trying to require a method that doesn't exist"))
cerror("Trying to require a method that doesn't exist")
apply(cerror "Trying to require a method that doesn't exist")
error("Trying to require a method that doesn't exist")
gnus-server-opened((nil ""))
gnus-activate-group("nnml:personal.jprc" scan)
gnus-get-unread-articles(2)
gnus-setup-news(nil 2 t)
byte-code("[80 chars removed --kk]" [dont-connect did-connect
gnus-group-quit gnus-run-hooks gnus-startup-hook gnus-make-newsrc-file
gnus-startup-file gnus-current-startup-file gnus-slave
gnus-use-dribble-file gnus-dribble-read-file gnus-use-grouplens
bbb-login add-hook gnus-summary-mode-hook gnus-grouplens-mode
gnus-setup-news nil level 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] 4)
gnus-1(2 t nil)
gnus(2 t nil)
gnus-no-server-1(nil nil)
gnus-no-server(nil)
call-interactively(gnus-no-server)
After fiddling with edebug for an hour, it dawned on me that someone
had similar complaints not too long ago. (This is why I keep
nnml:list.ding for 30 days...)
The specific calling sequence which leads to this is:
gnus-activate-group -> gnus-find-method-for-group -> gnus-server-to-method
The group information obtained certainly appears correct, at first
glance, as reported during edebug of gnus-find-method-for-group:
("nnml:personal.jprc" 1 ((1 . 1)) nil "nnml:")
However, it's that last element that causes trouble: "nnml:". I
understand, from the brief flurry of activity surrounding Harry
Putnam's report about this, that this format is new, for some sort of
optimization or simplification purpose. But it isn't being handled
properly in this case.
For the situation at hand, I did `G E' to get at all group
information, and I edited "nnml:" into (nnml ""), and now it works
fine with both gnus-no-server and gnus.
p0.66.
--karl
next reply other threads:[~1998-12-23 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-23 20:50 Karl Kleinpaste [this message]
1998-12-24 1:12 ` Simon Josefsson
1998-12-25 0:34 ` Karl Kleinpaste
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