error when reading article

[Martin Rubey <axiomize@yahoo.de>]

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Dear all,

I really love gnus. Thus, as I'm changing jobs, I transferred .emacs, .newsrc
and .newsrc.eld to my new computer. Unfortunately a different distro,
("scientific linux"), but still. It works. Nearly.

M-x gnus displays my groups, but as soon as I press enter inside any group
buffer - no matter whether it's mail or news - to view an article, I get an
error. At least, without X. Below is the backtrace.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Martin


Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp \,)
  directory-file-name(\,)
  nnheader-find-etc-directory("smilies")
  eval((nnheader-find-etc-directory "smilies"))
  custom-initialize-reset(smiley-data-directory (nnheader-find-etc-directory "smilies"))
  custom-declare-variable(smiley-data-directory (nnheader-find-etc-directory "smilies") ("/usr/share/emacs/21.3/lisp/gnus/smiley-ems.elc" . -788) :type (choice directory (const nil)) :group smiley)
  gnus-smiley-display()
  gnus-treat-article(nil 1 -1 nil)
  byte-code("þÿ