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From: Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Symbol's function definition is void
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:05:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874n1ilqd0.fsf@engels.HistoricalMaterialism.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7zsip4mb4e.fsf@example.com>

David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> writes:

> Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> writes:
>
>> For no obvious reason, gnus now fails to display about half the messages
>> in groups. There is a header, no body, and in minibuffer the error
>> message:  "Symbol's function definition is void:
>> mailcap-parse-mailcaps".
>>
>> I don't believe this is a problem with ~/mailcap. There may be a probem
>> with FLIM version or loaded in wrong order, but I don't know how to
>> verify or correct if so.
>>
>> Haines Brown
>
> I've seen that error when I had been modifying the variable
> gnu-summary-line-format. It maybe unrelated though. Have you been
> editing .gnu-custom... or something?

No. I don't run a desktop at all, and so there's no .gnu-custom. My
~/.gnus is unchanged. However, I've recently acquired some peculiar
problems with I suppose reside in my X system, in which an application
has lost some GUI features even when it is freshly reinstalled in 
different versions.

Haines

      reply	other threads:[~2014-04-24 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-23 13:01 Haines Brown
2014-04-23 13:25 ` David Hume
2014-04-24 15:05   ` Haines Brown [this message]

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