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. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
