From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1565 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Signaling: (wrong-type-argument number-char-or-marker-p Re:) Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 08:50:52 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Message-ID: <84k7ir5yn7.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668302 11812 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:45:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:45:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:21 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!Norway.EU.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!lucy.informatik.uni-duisburg.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.informatik.uni-duisburg.de (134.91.35.216) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1038904035 28727896 134.91.35.216 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:004FhQEbpr8WKS5vunQF7hEoIkA= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1705 Original-Lines: 19 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1705 Tue Jan 17 17:29:21 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1565 Archived-At: sulchi@yahoo.com (Suresh) writes: > I get the following error when entering a imap folder. It used to work > fine and I don't remember changing anything. > I'm using v5.8.8. Only few folders has this problem. > > here's the backtrace.. > > Signaling: (wrong-type-argument number-char-or-marker-p Re:) > =(327 Re:) Do you have a .overview file for that group? It could be in ~/News/overview or one of its sub(subsub)dirs. The subdir name gives the group name. I suspect that file is b0rked. You can just delete it if that's the case. -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)