From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/43013 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Nearly impossible to start up recent Oort. Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 17:40:42 -0800 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <2npu3gimzy.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035178173 15284 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:29:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:29:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 16970 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2002 01:43:20 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 9 Feb 2002 01:43:20 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16ZMVr-0007sI-00; Fri, 08 Feb 2002 19:41:11 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 08 Feb 2002 19:41:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA19477 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 19:40:59 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 16908 invoked by alias); 9 Feb 2002 01:40:56 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 16903 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2002 01:40:55 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (171.64.13.23) by gnus.org with SMTP; 9 Feb 2002 01:40:55 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 23489 invoked by uid 50); 9 Feb 2002 01:40:42 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <2npu3gimzy.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> (ShengHuo ZHU's message of "Fri, 08 Feb 2002 00:03:13 -0500") Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, sparc-sun-solaris2.6) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43013 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43013 ShengHuo ZHU writes: > You can get around the problem with (setq gnus-use-byte-compile nil). > If it works, probably there is a bug in the XEmacs byte-compile code. A much better workaround that appears to be equally effective is to add: ;; Work around a bug in XEmacs 21.4 with the latest version of Gnus. Loading ;; of byte-optimize when mail splitting starts can cause XEmacs to segfault. (require 'byte-optimize) to your .gnus or equivalent thereof. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)