Re: Signaling: (invalid-read-syntax ".")

Re: Signaling: (invalid-read-syntax ".")

[Josef Oswald]

Adrian Aichner <adrian@xemacs.org> writes:

>>>>>> "Josef" == Josef Oswald <NO.SPAM.for.gnus@chello.at> writes:
>
>     Josef> Adrian Aichner <adrian@xemacs.org> writes:
>     >>>>>>> "Josef" == Josef Oswald <NO.SPAM.for.gnus@chello.at> writes:
>     >> 
>     Josef> Hi :-) 
>     Josef> this is driving me nuts as I can't find what is wrong ( if at all in
>     Josef> the .gnus file)
>     >> 
>     Josef> gnus versions:
>     Josef> ognus-0.06
>     Josef> gnus-5.8.8 
>     Josef> both when invoked with xemacs-21.4.8-mule -f gnus give me
>     Josef> this error: 
>     >> 
>     Josef> Signaling: (invalid-read-syntax ".")
>     Josef> signal(invalid-read-syntax ("."))
>     Josef> signal-error(invalid-read-syntax ("."))
>     Josef> normal-top-level()
>     >> 
>     Josef> if I start XEmacs by itself and then later fire up gnus
>     Josef> with M-x gnus the debugger starts but it never finishes. so
>     Josef> the only debugging information I have is the above.
>     >> 
>     >> Does starting XEmacs with the -debug-init switch give a clue?
>     Josef> Hi:-)
>
>     Josef> If I use XEmacs by itself no error, with xemacs-21.4.8-mule
>     Josef> -f gnus I got only the above error, the build for XEmacs:
>     Josef> _debug=no_ would this not take away the build in function
>     Josef> to debug the .gnus file?
>
> Hi Josef, please try this:
>
> xemacs-21.4.8-mule -debug-init -f gnus
>
> Does this provide any additinoal information?

no :-/ 

But I did another thing:

Logged on as another user, copied ./xemacs/.init.el and .gnus from my
"oswald" directory (this is my normal user for day to day-work as this
is a single user-pc) and started XEmacs and gnus this time no problems. 

I have a hunch that the problem could be in .newsrc or the like,
because as "oswald" I even started gnus without the .gnus-file and I
still got the same error. 

> -- 
> Adrian Aichner

Josef Oswald 

Re: Signaling: (invalid-read-syntax ".")

[Josef Oswald]

Adrian Aichner <adrian@xemacs.org> writes:

> Hmmh!
>
> On the system with the problem, start XEmacs without gnus.

I looked at .newsrc and the first entry had a leading dot in its name.
I removed this complete line.

The funny thing is when I start gnus without loading .gnus manually
via M-x load-file RET .gnus RET, gnus starts now without any problems
but _all_ my _subscibed_ groups, mail as well as news are _gone_. 

those are in fact all groups:
       1: news.announce.newusers (m)
      45: news.groups.questions 
     189: gnu.emacs.gnus 
       9: nndoc+gnus-help:gnus-help 
       4: nndraft:drafts 
now if I load .gnus first and then start gnus then all my subscribed
groups are displayed. 

Do I need to tell .Xemacs to load the .gnus file in ~/.xemacs/init.el
I just _hate_ to go over each group and set all custom-setting again. 

But if this is the _only_ way, well :-(

thanks for your help.

>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Adrian
>
 Josef Oswald