* errors in X
@ 2006-04-18 21:40 David Wainberg
2006-04-18 22:03 ` Jesper Harder
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From: David Wainberg @ 2006-04-18 21:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi,
Maybe this is an emacs problem, but I'm only seeing problems so far in
Gnus. When running Emacs and Gnus under X, if I hit M-g
(gnus-summary-rescan-group?) in the Summary or Group buffer, I get an
error: "Mail source error ((args-out-of range...." I don't have this
problem if I run Emacs in a terminal. I'm running Emacs 21.4, Gnus
5.9.0 on Debian Sid. I recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade, which
seemed to include a big update to Xorg. Can anyone help?
The backtrace:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Cannot get new mail")
signal(error ("Cannot get new mail")) error("Cannot get new mail")
byte-code("þÿ
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* Re: errors in X
2006-04-18 21:40 errors in X David Wainberg
@ 2006-04-18 22:03 ` Jesper Harder
2006-04-19 12:55 ` Reiner Steib
2006-04-18 22:03 ` Sébastien Kirche
2006-04-18 23:06 ` David Wainberg
2 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Jesper Harder @ 2006-04-18 22:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
David Wainberg <david@altruistek.com> writes:
> Maybe this is an emacs problem,
Your message also exposed an unrelated Gnus error: the charset was
incorrectly specified as utf-16be in the header.
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* Re: errors in X
2006-04-18 21:40 errors in X David Wainberg
2006-04-18 22:03 ` Jesper Harder
@ 2006-04-18 22:03 ` Sébastien Kirche
2006-04-18 23:06 ` David Wainberg
2 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Sébastien Kirche @ 2006-04-18 22:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
At 23:40 on Apr 18 2006, David Wainberg said :
> I recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade, which
> seemed to include a big update to Xorg. Can anyone help?
(in you headers)
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-16be
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
It seems to me that your locales are broken as you actually sent some
kind of ascii or latin encoding and not some utf-16 big endian.
Maybe you should take a look at that ?
--
Sébastien Kirche
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* Re: errors in X
2006-04-18 21:40 errors in X David Wainberg
2006-04-18 22:03 ` Jesper Harder
2006-04-18 22:03 ` Sébastien Kirche
@ 2006-04-18 23:06 ` David Wainberg
2006-04-22 0:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: David Wainberg @ 2006-04-18 23:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
Sorry about that. Thank you for pointing out the problem. Let me try
again. (I removed the odd characters from the backtrace, which I
suppose were causing gnus to automatically change the encoding. True?)
Back to my question:
This may be an Emacs problem, but I am only having trouble with Gnus
so far. I have this problem when running Emacs in X, but not when it's
in a terminal. When I hit M-g on a nnml group in summary or group buffer
I get a "Mail source error: ((args-out-of-range ...." I am running
Emacs 21.4 and Gnus 5.9.0 on Debian Sid. A recent apt-get dist-upgrade
seemed to include a big update to Xorg. Narrowing it down to X took a
while, and I'm not sure where to go from here. Can someone point me in
the right direction?
Thanks much,
-David
Backtrace:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Cannot get new mail")
signal(error ("Cannot get new mail"))
error("Cannot get new mail")
byte-code("..." [err yes-or-no-p format "Mail source error (%s).
Continue? " error "Cannot get new mail" 0] 4)
mail-source-fetch((file :path "/var/mail/art") (lambda (file
orig-file) (nnmail-split-incoming file (quote nnml-save-mail) (quote
nil) (if ... nil ...) (quote nnml-active-number))))
nnmail-get-new-mail(nnml nnml-save-nov "~/Mail/" "mail.misc")
nnml-request-scan("mail.misc" "david")
gnus-request-scan("nnml+david:mail.misc" (nnml "david"))
gnus-activate-group("nnml+david:mail.misc" scan)
gnus-group-get-new-news-this-group(nil)
gnus-topic-get-new-news-this-topic(nil)
* call-interactively(gnus-topic-get-new-news-this-topic)
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* Re: errors in X
2006-04-18 22:03 ` Jesper Harder
@ 2006-04-19 12:55 ` Reiner Steib
0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Reiner Steib @ 2006-04-19 12:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Wed, Apr 19 2006, Jesper Harder wrote:
> Your message also exposed an unrelated Gnus error: the charset was
> incorrectly specified as utf-16be in the header.
It's a bug in Emacs 21.[34], see
http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/comp/emacs/rs-sort-coding-systems-21-3-fix.el
for a fix and it's commentary for explanations.
Bye, Reiner.
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* Re: errors in X
2006-04-18 23:06 ` David Wainberg
@ 2006-04-22 0:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2006-04-22 23:26 ` David Wainberg
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2006-04-22 0:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
David Wainberg <david@altruistek.com> writes:
> byte-code("..." [err yes-or-no-p format "Mail source error (%s).
> Continue? " error "Cannot get new mail" 0] 4)
> mail-source-fetch((file :path "/var/mail/art") (lambda (file
This doesn't actually say what the error is. Hm. Does the
/var/mail/art file look OK? How big is it?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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* Re: errors in X
2006-04-22 0:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 2006-04-22 23:26 ` David Wainberg
0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: David Wainberg @ 2006-04-22 23:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>> byte-code("..." [err yes-or-no-p format "Mail source error (%s).
>> Continue? " error "Cannot get new mail" 0] 4)
>> mail-source-fetch((file :path "/var/mail/art") (lambda (file
>
> This doesn't actually say what the error is. Hm. Does the
> /var/mail/art file look OK? How big is it?
I don't know what was wrong, but I've solved the problem by upgrading
to Emacs 22 (emacs-snapshot-gtk in debian).
-David
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