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regarding emacs21: rare gnus bug, intern ( ) broken?
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Package: emacs21
Version: 21.4a+1-1
Severity: normal
This happens once in a blue moon when I start gnus or move messages
between groups. The error happens in function
nnml-generate-active in file nnmail.el; on top of the backtrace is
something like
Error: wrong type for format specifier
(format "%S %d %d y\n" "mail\\.foo" 2 1)
The utterly weird thing is that this shows format was called with
a _string_ as the second argument, when gnus is calling intern () on
the group name just before, so this should always be a symbol ?!?
But even assuming that intern returned a string for some bizarre
reason, a quick test show that (format "%S" "foo") works just fine
and returns a string which is the print syntax of the argument string.
I have to recover from this by executing nnml-generate-nov-databases
which takes a long time :-(
This one is probably best forwarded upstream; I haven't done so myself
because, based on past experience, I'd be told to debug emacs with gdb
:-(
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-9custom2+fuse
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages emacs21 depends on:
ii emacs21-bin-common 21.4a+1-1 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-7 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libtiff4 3.8.2-6 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii libungif4g 4.1.4-4 shared library for GIF images
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.5-2 X11 pixmap library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-14 Xaw3d widget set
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
emacs21 recommends no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---
This bug is pretty old now. There's not enough information in the initial report
to do anything. If it still happens with the latest Emacs release, 24.3,
I suggest making a report directly with upstream.
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