From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/8003 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henrik Christian Grove Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, e Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:12:16 +0200 Organization: Dansk usenetbruger! Message-ID: <7gr6y84yf3.fsf@serena.fsr.ku.dk> References: <7gd59u640o.fsf@serena.fsr.ku.dk> <87mz8y5fcv.fsf@baldur.nicundtas.de> 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 1158617595 24658 80.91.229.2 (18 Sep 2006 22:13:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:13:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 19 00:13:12 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 1GPRMF-0007w1-HV for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:12:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GPRMF-0006Lw-1U for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:12:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GPRMC-0006HB-5v for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:12:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GPRMB-0006FU-Du for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:12:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GPRMB-0006FG-4z for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:12:51 -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 1GPRP6-0000r8-Mb for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:15:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GPRLy-0007q2-5j for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:12:38 +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 ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:12:38 +0200 Original-Received: from grove by serena.fsr.ku.dk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:12:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-Lines: 66 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:Vgnd5CI6NNqfYDutvnzIapG4bWk= 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:8003 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Henrik Christian Grove writes: > > Hi Henrik, > >> 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. > > Put > > (setq debug-on-error t) > > into your ~/.emacs. If the error happens again, it will enter the > debugger and a backtrace will be displayed. This should point you to > where the error occurs. Indeed. The output from the debugger (I haven't taken the complete lines of bytecode, one of them was 1700+ chars long, and I doubt anyone would find them interesting): Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p e) byte-code("Æ^H!\210eb\210Çp!ÈÉÊ\217È^Y^Z^[\nËW\203 ^@ÌÍ\n\"\210\202\217^@\nÎU\203k^@ÏÈ^\^]Ð \210Ñ q\210eb\210m\204b^@ÒÓ!\203\\^@ÔË!^N^_\230\203\\^@ÕÖÔ×!!^K\"\211^T\203\\^@\fÖÔØ!!¡\210Øy\210\2024^@Ù \210Ï^Q*\202$ gnus-agent-read-agentview("/home/grove/News/agent/nntp/ogel/debianforum.snak/.agentview") gnus-cache-file-contents("/home/grove/News/agent/nntp/ogel/debianforum.snak/.agentview" gnus-agent-file-loading-cache gnus-agent-read-agentview) gnus-agent-load-alist("nntp+ogel:debianforum.snak") gnus-agent-get-local("nntp+ogel:debianforum.snak") gnus-agent-possibly-alter-active("nntp+ogel:debianforum.snak" (42 . 81)) gnus-activate-group("nntp+ogel:debianforum.snak" scan) gnus-get-unread-articles(nil) gnus-setup-news(nil nil nil) byte-code("^H\204^N^@ \204^N^@Æ \210\202^^@ÇÈ!\210É\n!^S\f\204^^^@^M\203!^@Ê \210^N^^\203.^@Ë \210ÌÍÎ\"\210^N^_\2038^@ÏÐÑ\"\210ÏÒÓ\"\210ÔÕ^N ^H#\210ÇÖ!\210× \210Ø^N !\210Ù \210ÚÛ!\210Ü \210ÇÝ!\210Õ\207" [dont-c$ gnus-1(nil nil nil) gnus(nil) * call-interactively(gnus) execute-extended-command(nil) call-interactively(execute-extended-command) and News/agent/nntp/ogel/debianforum.snak/.agentview is seriously damaged, the contents (as less displays it): l^@e^@ ^@S^@e^@c^@u^@r^@i^@ not exactly your average .agentview file, luckily it's even a extremely-low-traffic and low-interest group. It's too late for me now, to try and fix this, and see if there are other problems, but now I know how to get on with it. Thank you to both you and Jesse. .Henrik -- "Det er fundamentalt noget humanistisk vås, at der er noget, der hedder blød matematik." --- citat Henrik Jeppesen, dekan for det naturvidenskabelige fakultet