From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18913 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Mail source problem (?) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 12:05:07 -0800 Message-ID: <875zubqj64.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87k1ir8gac.fsf@opal.nowan.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="239007"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 26 21:05:46 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gnUD4-00105a-CK for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2019 21:05:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35131 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnUD3-0003f1-7j for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2019 15:05:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47852) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnUD0-0003ek-RR for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2019 15:05:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnUCn-0006KM-Iz for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2019 15:05:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=59436 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnUCa-0005xi-2F for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2019 15:05:23 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gnUCX-000zRK-QL for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2019 21:05:13 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:o7LiCbOS8KQWTjZXL10f+56weUg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "info-gnus-english" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:18913 Archived-At: Jeremy Hankins writes: > Recently (after an update to emacs about a month ago, debian unstable) I > started getting a message when checking mail about a mail source error: > > Mail source (file :path /var/mail/nowan) error (Searching for program). Continue? (yes or no) > > This is apparently from my secondary select method meant to pull in > localhost mail, and it doesn't seem to be anything obvious like a > permissions problem. It doesn't make any difference whether I respond > yes or no, either way mail out of /var/mail is ignored and the rest of > my mail is fetched successfully. > > It's clearly some sort of compatibility issue and I figured I needed to > sort through my gnus file and figure out where it was coming from -- > annoying but no big deal. And since it's only a small minority of my > mail affected it hasn't bugged me enough to pursue it till now. > > But the annoying thing, apart from the fact that the error is a bit > obscure (what program?), is that if I turn debug-on-quit on so as to > figure out where the bug is being triggered and why, the message goes > away removing my chance to trigger the debugger. > > Any ideas either a) what the problem fetching local mail is, or b) why > debug-on-quit makes the message go away? Are you sure it isn't `debug-on-error' you want? Unless you're getting a hang when checking mail, and then trying to C-g out of the hang, you won't trigger `debug-on-quit'. Maybe try the former? Eric