Richmond <dnomh...@gmx.com> writes: > Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> Richmond <dnomh...@gmx.com> writes: >> >>> Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >>>> Richmond <dnomh...@gmx.com> writes: >>>> >>>>> Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes: >>>>> >>>>>> Richmond <dnomh...@gmx.com> 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? _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english