errors in X

errors in X

[David Wainberg]

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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

Re: errors in X

[Jesper Harder]

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.

Re: errors in X

[Reiner Steib]

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

[Sébastien Kirche]

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

Re: errors in X

[David Wainberg]

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)

Re: errors in X

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

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?

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Re: errors in X

[David Wainberg]

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