From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33005: 27.0.50; Data loss with Gnus registry Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:34:51 -0700 Message-ID: <87mueuicys.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <871s8yvsrq.fsf@web.de> <87in29x33z.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87r2gxygox.fsf@web.de> <87efcxwzr2.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <874ldtlcks.fsf@web.de> <87ftxdl7w1.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878t33cjf2.fsf@web.de> <87o8za4gbl.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="27878"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: 33005@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 24 05:36:12 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iCbcZ-00076u-Qu for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2019 05:36:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40526 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iCbcY-0005OU-Kb for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:36:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43981) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iCbcR-0005MZ-2B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:36:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iCbcP-0005r8-W6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:56806) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iCbcP-0005r3-TO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:36:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iCbcP-0007k1-Oz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:36:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <871s8yvsrq.fsf@web.de> Resent-From: Eric Abrahamsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 03:36:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 33005 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.156929611029692 (code B ref -1); Tue, 24 Sep 2019 03:36:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Sep 2019 03:35:10 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37394 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iCbba-0007ip-67 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:35:10 -0400 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]:53607) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iCbbX-0007ih-KN for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:35:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43776) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iCbbW-0004gR-DR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iCbbV-0005Y7-BK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from 195-159-176-226.customer.powertech.no ([195.159.176.226]:41518 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iCbbT-0005W4-1q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:35:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iCbbN-0005f9-QZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2019 05:34:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:gFyAo8N3hITbB2lJWJQvfuZ9hsw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:167063 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > Michael Heerdegen writes: > >> Ok, can we close this report - seems we are done? > > Sorry for the bad news - but my registry marks are disappearing again > :-( Just after restarting Gnus they are gone. > > I wanted to try with gnus-mock but it errors: > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (buffer-read-only #) > replace-match("/tmp/emacs-gnus-mock-ENKWay" t) > gnus-mock-start() > [...] > > I tried to load the source of gnus-mock to get a more meaningful > backtrace but that also errors: > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) > file-name-directory(nil) > (expand-file-name "data" (file-name-directory load-file-name)) > (file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name "data" (file-name-directory load-file-name))) > (defconst gnus-mock-data-dir (file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name "data" (file-name-directory load-file-name))) "Source directory for Gnus mock data.") > eval-region(1 10407) ; Reading at buffer position 5125 > > Hmm... Ah, this was a question I had when I was first writing gnus-mock -- load-file-name was reliably present for all my tests, but they were only on Linux. Can you tell me what system you're running? Presumably there are better alternatives to load-file-name under different circumstances.