From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18327 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arkady Grudzinsky Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: complete crash of gnus - (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil) Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 10:17:01 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1473362439 15069 195.159.176.226 (8 Sep 2016 19:20:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 19:20:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 08 21:20:35 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bi4s8-0002er-Lc for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2016 21:20:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53139 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bi4s6-0006CM-Kv for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2016 15:20:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51364) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bi34g-0007nO-4S for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:25:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bi34c-0004JN-Ei for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:25:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=55067 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bi34c-0004IT-7z for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:25:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bi34S-0006vn-Jo for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2016 19:25:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:lqjXvkZ0XUBrBHl024WEzrSeLbA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "info-gnus-english" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:18327 Archived-At: On Wed, Sep 07 2016, Benjamin Slade wrote: > Somehow my groups screen in Gnus got completely buggered up > today. 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) It appears that your dribble (autosave) file is corrupted. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Auto-Save.html Normally, gnus asks whether to read it. If it does, answer "n" at startup. If it doesn't ask, you may have the gnus-always-read-dribble-file set to non-nil in your .gnus file. Set it temporarily to nil, restart gnus, and answer "n" to the question. Or, perhaps, just delete the dribble file. -- Arkady