From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7997 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henrik Christian Grove Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, e Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:01:27 +0200 Organization: Dansk usenetbruger! Message-ID: <7gd59u640o.fsf@serena.fsr.ku.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158528920 17560 80.91.229.2 (17 Sep 2006 21:35:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:35:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 17 23:35:19 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GP4IF-000090-4T for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:35:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GP4IE-00050M-Jw for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:35:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GP4IC-0004xx-9D for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:35:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GP4IB-0004xQ-7G for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GP4IA-0004xL-VR for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GP4Ks-0000fJ-8M for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:37:58 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GP4I2-000067-Ea for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:35:02 +0200 Original-Received: from serena.fsr.ku.dk ([130.225.215.194]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:35:02 +0200 Original-Received: from grove by serena.fsr.ku.dk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:35:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: serena.fsr.ku.dk User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:u2hnZCJFwRpNgnKjs2kVJrcCalk= X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:7997 Archived-At: Hi I've been using gnus for news and email for many years. Recently the disk my homedirectory is on suffered a partial crash (it's on linux lvm, and one of three disks died). Emacs with gnus was running (in a screen) when it happended. Since then gnus has worked fine as longer as it can't access a particular newsserver (my own), either because the server isn't running, or because I've commented out the address in my .gnus. But when my newsserver is available gnus just says "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, e" during startup, and stops. I don't find that error message very helpful, so I'm hoping some of you can give me an idea of what to look for and where - or possibly a way to fix the problem. .Henrik -- "Det er fundamentalt noget humanistisk vås, at der er noget, der hedder blød matematik." --- citat Henrik Jeppesen, dekan for det naturvidenskabelige fakultet