From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7999 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jesse Alama Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, e Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:46:00 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158532826 27936 80.91.229.2 (17 Sep 2006 22:40:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:40:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 18 00:40:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GP5JC-0005PX-73 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:40:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GP5JB-0004jv-Q5 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:40:17 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ponderosa.stanford.edu Original-X-Trace: news.Stanford.EDU 1158529560 11172 128.12.172.219 (17 Sep 2006 21:46:00 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@news.stanford.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VrTKlHcf40DTYnzG5R1+0musHck= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:78183 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:7999 Archived-At: Henrik Christian Grove writes: > I've been using gnus for news and email for many years. Recently the > disk my homedirectory is on suffered a partial crash (it's on linux lvm, > and one of three disks died). Emacs with gnus was running (in a screen) > when it happended. > > Since then gnus has worked fine as longer as it can't access a > particular newsserver (my own), either because the server isn't running, > or because I've commented out the address in my .gnus. But when my > newsserver is available gnus just says "Wrong type argument: > number-or-marker-p, e" during startup, and stops. > > I don't find that error message very helpful, so I'm hoping some of you > can give me an idea of what to look for and where - or possibly a way to > fix the problem. Turn on debugging (M-x toggle-debug-on-error), try this again, and tell us in more detail what the error is. Jesse -- Jesse Alama (alama@stanford.edu)