problem with gnus-no-server

[Mark Thomas <swoon@bellatlantic.net>]

This morning, I added news.gmane.org to my
gnus-secondary-select-methods, so that I have:

  (setq gnus-select-method '(nnml "")
        gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nntp "news.bellatlantic.net")
                                        (nntp "news.gmane.org")
                                        (nntp "cmu"
                                              (nntp-address "localhost")
                                              (nntp-port-number 10119))))

That worked fine, and I was able to add and read groups.  These new
gmane groups I put on level 4.

I quit gnus.  I can restart gnus with
  M-x gnus
just fine.

However when I try to start gnus-no-server with
  M-x gnus-no-server

I get an error.  The backtrace is:
    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("maillist.debian.laptop" scan)
      gnus-get-unread-articles(2)
      gnus-setup-news(nil 2 t)
      byte-code("..." [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)
      command-execute(gnus-no-server t)
      execute-extended-command(nil)
      call-interactively(execute-extended-command)

If I look in ~/.newsrc.eld, I see that the maillist.debian.laptop
group is the first nnml group:

(setq gnus-newsrc-alist
       '(("nntp+news.gmane.org:gmane.linux.debian.user.security.announce" 4
	  ((1 . 22))
	  ((seen
	    (1 . 22)))
	  (nntp "news.gmane.org"))
	 .....
	 ("nntp+news.gmane.org:gmane.emacs.xemacs.announce" 4
	  ((1 . 5))
	  ((seen
	    (1 . 5)))
	  (nntp "news.gmane.org"))
	 ("maillist.debian.laptop" 2
	  ((1 . 6080))
	  ((dormant
	    (1 . 3)
	    (4376 . 4379))
	   (expire 3364 3374
		   (3761 . 3762)
		   (3765 . 3766)
		   3911 4473
		   (5189 . 5190)
		   5280 5283 5437 5474 5587 5589 5657 5713
		   (5723 . 5724)
		   (5728 . 5729)
		   5942 6001 6012)
	   (reply 1 4377 4381)
	   (tick 230 754 1380
		 (2093 . 2094)
		 3735 4014 4781
		 (4787 . 4788)
		 5467 5529 5968)
	   (seen
	    (1 . 6080))
	   (cache 1380))
	  "nnml:"
	  ((total-expire . t)
	   (expiry-wait . 28)
	   (to-list . "debian-laptop@lists.debian.org")
	   (subscribed . t)))
	 ("maillist.debian.security-announce" 2
	  ((1 . 113))
	  ((dormant
	    (1 . 3)
	    (83 . 86))
	   (expire 25)
	   (reply 1 84)
	   (seen
	    (1 . 3)
	    (65 . 113)))
	  "nnml:"
	  ((total-expire . t)
	   (expiry-wait . 28)
	   (subscribed . t)))
         ....

The ~/.newsrc.eld file originally had
  "nntp:news.gmane.org"

Once I encountered this bug, I change that to
  (nntp "news.gmane.org")
in order to match the entries I have for
  (nntp "news.bellatlantic.net")
and
  (nntp "cmu")

That didn't do anything to fix the problem.

What's up, and how do I debug it?

Thanks,

-Mark