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Then I exited Gnus and tried to re-entered and I get an error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil) gnus-group-change-level(nil nil nil nil t) eval-buffer(#) ; Reading at buffer position 117784 gnus-dribble-eval-file() gnus-setup-news(nil nil nil) byte-code(" \204 \204 \306 \210\202L\307\310!\210\311\n! \f\204 \203!\312 \210\313\314 #\210\307\315!\210 \2036\316\317\320\"\210\321 \210\322 !\210\323 \210\324\325!\210\326 \210\307\327!\210\314\207" [dont-connect did-connect gnus-startup-file gnus-current-startup-file gnus-slave gnus-use-dribble-file gnus-group-quit gnus-run-hooks gnus-startup-hook gnus-make-newsrc-file gnus-dribble-read-file gnus-setup-news nil gnus-setup-news-hook gnus-request-create-group "queue" (nndraft "") gnus-start-draft-setup gnus-group-list-groups gnus-group-first-unread-group gnus-configure-windows group gnus-group-set-mode-line gnus-started-hook level gnus-agent] 4) gnus-1(nil nil nil) gnus(nil) call-interactively(gnus nil nil) command-execute(gnus) [ stepping through, I get: Debugger entered--entering a function: * command-error-default-function((wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil) "" byte-code) Debugger entered--entering a function: * sml/-this-buffer-changed(1 2 0) * command-error-default-function((wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil) "" byte-code) and so on....] I've tried restoring from a backup the .newsrc and .newsrc.eld files What I would really like is just to get back a working gnus. What is the best way of just resetting at this point? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users." --Stallman's Law ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * {Choose freedom: choose GNU & Linux .}* --001a11416976047079053bf7f500 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Somehow my groups screen in Gnus got completely buggered u= p today. Then I exited Gnus and tried to re-entered and I get an error:
(wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)
=C2=A0 gnus-group-change-level(nil nil nil nil t)
=C2=A0 eval-bu= ffer(#<buffer .newsrc-dribble>) =C2=A0; Reading at buffer position 11= 7784
=C2=A0 gnus-dribble-eval-file()
=C2=A0 gnus-setup-= news(nil nil nil)
=C2=A0 byte-code(" \204 \204 \306 \210\202L\30= 7\310!\210\311\n! \f\204
\203!\312 \210\313\314 #\210\307\315!= \210 \2036\316\317\320\"\210\321 \210\322 !\210\323 \210\324\325!\21= 0\326 \210\307\327!\210\314\207" [dont-connect did-connect gnus-startu= p-file gnus-current-startup-file gnus-slave gnus-use-dribble-file gnus-grou= p-quit gnus-run-hooks gnus-startup-hook gnus-make-newsrc-file gnus-dribble-= read-file gnus-setup-news nil gnus-setup-news-hook gnus-request-create-grou= p "queue" (nndraft "") gnus-start-draft-setup gnus-grou= p-list-groups gnus-group-first-unread-group gnus-configure-windows group gn= us-group-set-mode-line gnus-started-hook level gnus-agent] 4)
=C2= =A0 gnus-1(nil nil nil)
=C2=A0 gnus(nil)
=C2=A0 call-in= teractively(gnus nil nil)
=C2=A0 command-execute(gnus)
=
[ stepping through, I get:

Deb= ugger entered--entering a function:
* command-error-default-funct= ion((wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil) "" byte-code)

Debugger entered--entering a function:
* sml/-this-buffer-changed(1 2 0)
* command-error-default= -function((wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil) "" byte-co= de)

and so on....]

= I've tried restoring from a backup the .newsrc and .newsrc.eld files

What I would really like is just to get back a worki= ng gnus. What is the best way of just resetting at this point?

-----------------------------------------------= ------------------------------------------------------
"While corporations dominate society and write the = laws,
=C2=A0 each advance in t= echnology is an opening for them
=C2=A0 to further restrict its users."
=C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0 --Stallman's Law
-----------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------------------------
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2= =A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 {Choose freedom: choose GNU & Linux.}
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