Richmond <[email protected]> writes: > Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> Richmond <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >>>> Richmond <[email protected]> writes: >>>> >>>>> Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >>>>>> Richmond <[email protected]> writes: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Eric Abrahamsen <[email protected]> writes: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Richmond <[email protected]> writes: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Due to my computer dying I lost some changes. One of which was to stop >>>>>>>>> subscribing to new groups. But even though I reapplied this change, I >>>>>>>>> was unable to launch gnus because of this error. I cannot find any >>>>>>>>> reference in the lisp to this function gnus-kill-newsgroup but >>>>>>>>> something >>>>>>>>> is calling it and then failing. I got gnus working in the end by >>>>>>>>> removing the mozilla server from .gnus. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> There was a reference in to this function in .gnu-emacs but I renamed >>>>>>>>> this file to dotgnu-emacs but still the error occured. Can functions >>>>>>>>> get >>>>>>>>> copied around? >>>>>>>> `gnus-kill-newsgroup' was removed from Gnus (or at least this Gnus >>>>>>>> change was merged into Emacs master) in 2012, so it's been a while. >>>>>>> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) >>>>>> That's a pretty old Emacs -- is there a chance you could upgrade to 26? >>>>>> 27 is almost out. >>>>> Probably but I am not sure I want to just yet. On the last system which >>>>> is now dead I did upgrade but it caused various other problems. >>>>> >>>>>>>> What version of Emacs are you using? You're not still loading an >>>>>>>> external Gnus installation, are you? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> No. I had to re-install linux etc. So starting from scratch. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> You talk about changes, and "reapplying changes", what does that mean? >>>>>>> Some time ago, maybe a couple of months, I asked in this group why gnus >>>>>>> was subscribing to groups and as a result of that I made changes to >>>>>>> .gnus and got rid of .gnu-emacs-custom >>>>>>>> What seems most likely is that you've got some custom functions in >>>>>>>> your.gnus.el or elsewhere that are still calling `gnus-kill-newsgroup'. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> The problem is I cannot find any reference to it. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I do this: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> find . -type f -print|xargs grep -i gnus-kill-newsgroup >>>>>>> >>>>>>> All it finds is this: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ./dotgnu-emacs: (gnus-kill-newsgroup newsgroup))) >>>>>> So presumably this file is getting loaded somehow? I don't see that >>>>>> that's a standard filename of any sort. If you look at that file, what >>>>>> is that code a part of? >>>>> I don't think it is getting loaded, although it might be. But it was the >>>>> file which was called .gnu-emacs which I renamed to dotgnu-emacs so that >>>>> it wouldn't get used. (dot = . ) >>>> If it's not getting loaded, I can't think of what else could be causing >>>> the problem. Unless you've got some old *elc files lying around from a >>>> previous installation. But if you're confident that you've searched all >>>> the relevant locations, I'd say this file is still your culprit. >>> I have changed the permissions on the file to zero so that it could not >>> be loaded, but I didn't get any error. >>> >>> I am not able to prove much now, one way or another, because I removed >>> and re-added the mozilla newsgroup. >>> >>> I have an idea which is pure speculation that gnus had somehow recorded >>> its intention to kill some newsgroups because that's what I had been >>> doing - killing new groups which I had been subscribed to, using ctrl-k, >>> and so gnus was trying to finish this task on startup. But I can't see >>> how this would have been recorded anywhere without recording the name >>> "gnus-kill-newsgroup", unless it was encoded. >> A completely nuts possibility is that you had a .gnus-dribble file from >> an older Emacs, which had recorded a lambda containing a call to >> `gnus-kill-newsgroup' as part of Gnus's undo mechanism as you were >> killing. I'm just totally making things up at this point. But it sounds >> like the problem is gone? > It has gone for the time being, hopefully it will not return as I have > removed the instruction to subscribe automatically to new groups. > > You theory is not nuts, but wouldn't I have found the lambda with my > find command? or maybe it would be a pointer only to something which > does not now exist?
Yeah, I guess the find command would have found it -- the only way this error could have arisen is if an older Emacs wrote the dribble file, and a newer Emacs read it, meaning the file would have had to have been saved to disk. Unless you were running the find command in different directory tree... _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
