I have the database on machine A, and use it from machine B (another
network) with (setq bbdb-file "karra@machineA:.bbdb"). This works for
the most part, but there are a few hitches. When I alter the database
from machine B, save it, and then try to compose a message from
machine A (using mailabbrev and also the mail-alias field of bbdb), I
get the following prompt:
BBDB has changed on disk; revert? (yes or no)
I answer yes, and then type a mail-alias, which is correct expanded.
But an error is also thrown. Here is a backtrace:
/----
| Signaling: (error "record doubleplus unpresent!")
| signal(error ("record doubleplus unpresent!"))
| error("record doubleplus unpresent!")
| bbdb-display-records-1((["Ayyappan" "Lakshminarayanan" nil "CECRI" nil nil
|("[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") (... ... ...)
|["Ayyappan Lakshminarayanan" "lakshminarayananayyappancecri" #<marker at 16443 in
|.bbdb> nil]]) t)
| bbdb-mail-abbrev-expand-hook(("[EMAIL PROTECTED]"))
| (lambda nil (bbdb-mail-abbrev-expand-hook (quote ...)))()
| expand-abbrev()
| sendmail-pre-abbrev-expand-hook()
| run-hooks(pre-abbrev-expand-hook)
\----
* Using GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit) (on both
machines)
* BBDB version 2.2 ($Date: 2001/01/24 23:14:00 $)
* Problem appears when `compose-mail' is used from a normal buffer or
if `gnus-group-mail' is used from The *Group* buffer of Gnus. But
does not occur if bbdb-send-mail is called from the *BBDB* buffer
(a) What does the error mean
(b) What can I do to avoid it?
(c) How can i instruct BBDB to automatically revert if the file has
changed?
(d) When the database is changed from machine A, how can I force
bbdb on machine B (from where the remote access takes place) to
reload? Killing the *BBDB* buffer and doing a bbdb-name afresh
does not seem to work.
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