From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Nick Dokos Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Need help debugging GNUS problem Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:38:40 -0400 Message-ID: <87mutuqlj3.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> References: <87k1oya8a8.fsf@stfc.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1533915464 19891 195.159.176.226 (10 Aug 2018 15:37:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:37:44 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 10 17:37:40 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fo9Tt-00051D-4o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 17:37:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56790 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fo9Vz-0006bX-Mr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:39:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60654) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fo9VC-0006Zq-GM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:38:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fo9V7-0002u7-Iy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:38:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=53088 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fo9V7-0002sy-Ak for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:38:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fo9St-0003sD-SZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 17:36:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 50 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:JCLUZCdcRCMDRlIVOww7pB9vLWQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117649 Archived-At: rprospero@gmail.com writes: > I recently tried to set up mail splitting in GNUS. Instead, I am now in > a position where I cannot access any of my e-mail. Furthermore, my > usual debugging strategy of starting at "emacs -Q" and working through > my init file from there isn't working, since the problem still occurs > even without my init file. > > To be more specific, when I load GNUS, all of my groups appear. > However, if I attempt to load any of my maildir accounts, I get the > following error > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Trying to require a method that doesn’t exist") > signal(error ("Trying to require a method that doesn’t exist")) > error("Trying to require a method that doesn't exist") > gnus-get-function((nil "") server-opened) > gnus-server-opened((nil "")) > gnus-check-server((nil "")) > gnus-select-newsgroup("nnmaildir+Professional:INBOX" nil nil) > gnus-summary-read-group-1("nnmaildir+Professional:INBOX" nil t nil nil nil) > gnus-summary-read-group("nnmaildir+Professional:INBOX" nil t nil nil nil nil) > gnus-group-read-group(nil t) > gnus-group-select-group(nil) > funcall-interactively(gnus-group-select-group nil) > call-interactively(gnus-group-select-group nil nil) > command-execute(gnus-group-select-group) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > With "Professional:INBOX" being the group that I attempted to load in > that example. > > I've confirmed that all of my e-mail is still in the > Maildir and accessible through other mail apps. > > Any advice on where to start looking to fix this issue? I'm on version > 25.3.1 and running on the Nixos distro. > > You have probably made a mistake in ~/.gnus.el. If you can't find it, maybe post its contents here (modulo any private details that you might want to elide), although it's probably better to post to one of the gnus groups. -- Nick "There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler