error when reading article

error when reading article

[Martin Rubey]

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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

Re: error when reading article

[Martin Rubey]

Oh, it seems that I cannot even post articles?

Martin

Re: error when reading article

[Martin Rubey]

Hmm, it seems that my message got garbled, so I try again:

I had to move office, but wanted to take my gus with me. So I copied .emacs,
.newsrc, .newsrc.eld to the new location, installed the missing packages (like
bbdb and tramp), and it worked - nearly.

The only problem I have is that viewing an article returns in an error
message. Below is the backtrace... (I replaced stuff within bytecode by ...,
since I suspect that this garbled my first post...)

Thanks a million times,

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)
  gnus-display-mime()
  gnus-article-prepare-display()
  gnus-article-prepare(5161 nil)
  gnus-summary-display-article(5161 nil)
  gnus-summary-select-article(nil nil pseudo)
  gnus-summary-scroll-up(1)
  call-interactively(gnus-summary-scroll-up)
  recursive-edit()
  byte-code("..." [debugger-buffer debugger-args noninteractive debugger-batch-max-lines middlestart buffer-read-only pop-to-buffer debugger-mode debugger-setup-buffer count-lines 2 "...\n" message buffer-string kill-emacs debug backtrace-debug 3 t debugger-reenable "" nil recursive-edit standard-output inhibit-trace] 3)
  debug(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 6 nil)
  byte-code("..." [ibegend handles begend preferred ihandles x 2 mm-remove-parts point-marker gnus-unbuttonized-mime-type-p "multipart/alternative" gnus-add-text-properties format "%d.  " gnus-callback lambda (handles) unless setq gnus-article-mime-handle-alist quote gnus-mime-display-alternative face keymap gnus-part gnus-data widget-convert-button link :action gnus-widget-press-button :button-keymap "(%c) %-18s" 42 32 1 (handles) "  " "\n\n" gnus-display-mime mm-display-part gnus-treat-article nil bufferp not-pref from id gnus-mouse-face-prop gnus-article-mouse-face gnus-article-button-face gnus-mime-button-map ...] 16)
  gnus-mime-display-alternative(((#<killed buffer> ("text/plain" ...) quoted-printable nil nil nil nil nil) (#<killed buffer> ("text/html" ...) quoted-printable nil nil nil nil nil)) nil nil 1)
  gnus-mime-display-part(("multipart/alternative" (#<killed buffer> ("text/plain" ...) quoted-printable nil nil nil nil nil) (#<killed buffer> ("text/html" ...) quoted-printable nil nil nil nil nil)))
  mapcar(gnus-mime-display-part (("multipart/alternative" (#<killed buffer> ... quoted-printable nil nil nil nil nil) (#<killed buffer> ... quoted-printable nil nil nil nil nil)) (#<killed buffer> ("application/msword" ...) base64 nil ("attachment" ...) nil nil nil) (#<killed buffer> ("application/msword" ...) base64 nil ("attachment" ...) nil nil nil) (#<killed buffer> ("application/msword" ...) base64 nil ("attachment" ...) nil nil nil) (#<killed buffer> ("application/msword" ...) base64 nil ("attachment" ...) nil nil nil) (#<killed buffer> ("application/msword" ...) base64 nil ("attachment" ...) nil nil nil)))
  gnus-mime-display-mixed((("multipart/alternative" (#<killed buffer> ... quoted-printable nil nil nil nil nil) (#<killed buffer> ... quoted-printable nil nil nil nil nil)) (#<killed buffer> ("application/msword" ...) base64 nil ("attachment" ...) nil nil nil) (#<killed buffer> ("application/msword" ...) base64 nil ("attachment" ...) nil nil nil) (#<killed buffer> ("application/msword" ...) base64 nil ("attachment" ...) nil nil nil) (#<killed buffer> ("application/msword" ...) base64 nil ("attachment" ...) nil nil nil) (#<killed buffer> ("application/msword" ...) base64 nil ("attachment" ...) nil nil nil)))
  gnus-mime-display-part(("multipart/mixed" ("multipart/alternative" (#<killed buffer> ... quoted-printable nil nil nil nil nil) (#<killed buffer> ... quoted-printable nil nil nil nil nil)) (#<killed buffer> ("application/msword" ...) base64 nil ("attachment" ...) nil nil nil) (#<killed buffer> ("application/msword" ...) base64 nil ("attachment" ...) nil nil nil) (#<killed buffer> ("application/msword" ...) base64 nil ("attachment" ...) nil nil nil) (#<killed buffer> ("application/msword" ...) base64 nil ("attachment" ...) nil nil nil) (#<killed buffer> ("application/msword" ...) base64 nil ("attachment" ...) nil nil nil)))
  gnus-display-mime()
  gnus-article-prepare-display()
  gnus-article-prepare(5219 nil)
  gnus-summary-display-article(5219 nil)
  gnus-summary-select-article(nil nil pseudo)
  gnus-summary-scroll-up(1)
  call-interactively(gnus-summary-scroll-up)

Re: error when reading article

[Martin Rubey]

OK, I got it. I had to customize smiley-data-directory (I set it to nil). No
idea why that works.

Martin