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