Hi all Since some weeks I have this strange error message while using quite normal functions like newsticker-treeview and some others. I use the same .emacs with three different machines, all of them running Emacs 23 under Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. The errors occur only on one machine. Has anybody an idea what could be wrong or how I can find out? Below I attach the debug message of newsticker-treeview. Other functions have the same error "wrong-type-argument listp \.\.\.". Thanks for help Sven Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument listp \.\.\.) newsticker--stat-num-items(Telepolis\ \(german\) new immortal) apply(newsticker--stat-num-items Telepolis\ \(german\) (new immortal)) newsticker--stat-num-items-for-group(Telepolis\ \(german\) new immortal) newsticker--treeview-tree-get-tag("Telepolis (german)" nil "feeds-0") #[(g) ". \". T. <ƒ2. @.Ç.É\f.\n#.Ì.Î. A.\f.\n).BBBBBBBBBBBBB‡. .\n#.Ó. .Õ. .×.\n).BBBBBBBBBBB‡" [tree i nt-id g g-name tag newsticker--treeview-get-id tree-widget :tag newsticker--treeview-tree-get-tag nil :expander newsticker--treeview-tree-expand :expander-p (lambda ... t) :nt-group :nt-feed :nt-id (:keep ... :open nil) item :leaf-icon newsticker--tree-widget-leaf-icon :action newsticker--treeview-list-feed-items (:keep ... :open t)] 14]("Telepolis (german)") mapcar(#[(g) ". \". T. <ƒ2. @.Ç.É\f.\n#.Ì.Î. A.\f.\n).BBBBBBBBBBBBB‡. .\n#.Ó. .Õ. .×.\n).BBBBBBBBBBB‡" [tree i nt-id g g-name tag newsticker--treeview-get-id tree-widget :tag newsticker--treeview-tree-get-tag nil :expander newsticker--treeview-tree-expand :expander-p (lambda ... t) :nt-group :nt-feed :nt-id (:keep ... :open nil) item :leaf-icon newsticker--tree-widget-leaf-icon :action newsticker--treeview-list-feed-items (:keep ... :open t)] 14] ("Telepolis (german)" "Tagesschau (german)" "Heise News (german)" "LWN (Linux Weekly News)" "Emacs Wiki" "Debian Security Advisories")) newsticker--treeview-tree-expand((tree-widget :args nil :expander newsticker--treeview-tree-expand :tag #("Feeds" 0 5 (mouse-face highlight help-echo "Feeds" :nt-vfeed nil :nt-feed nil :nt-id "feeds" keymap ... face newsticker-treeview-face)) :expander-p #[(&rest ignore) ".‡" [t] 1] :leaf-icon newsticker--tree-widget-leaf-icon :nt-group ("Telepolis (german)" "Tagesschau (german)" "Heise News (german)" "LWN (Linux Weekly News)" "Emacs Wiki" "Debian Security Advisories") :nt-id "feeds" :keep (:nt-id) :open t :node (item :tag #("Feeds" 0 5 ...)))) widget-apply((tree-widget :args nil :expander newsticker--treeview-tree-expand :tag #("Feeds" 0 5 (mouse-face highlight help-echo "Feeds" :nt-vfeed nil :nt-feed nil :nt-id "feeds" keymap ... face newsticker-treeview-face)) :expander-p #[(&rest ignore) ".‡" [t] 1] :leaf-icon newsticker--tree-widget-leaf-icon :nt-group ("Telepolis (german)" "Tagesschau (german)" "Heise News (german)" "LWN (Linux Weekly News)" "Emacs Wiki" "Debian Security Advisories") :nt-id "feeds" :keep (:nt-id) :open t :node (item :tag #("Feeds" 0 5 ...))) :expander) tree-widget-value-create((tree-widget :args nil :expander newsticker--treeview-tree-expand :tag #("Feeds" 0 5 (mouse-face highlight help-echo "Feeds" :nt-vfeed nil :nt-feed nil :nt-id "feeds" keymap ... face newsticker-treeview-face)) :expander-p #[(&rest ignore) ".‡" [t] 1] :leaf-icon newsticker--tree-widget-leaf-icon :nt-group ("Telepolis (german)" "Tagesschau (german)" "Heise News (german)" "LWN (Linux Weekly News)" "Emacs Wiki" "Debian Security Advisories") :nt-id "feeds" :keep (:nt-id) :open t :node (item :tag #("Feeds" 0 5 ...)))) widget-apply((tree-widget :args nil :expander newsticker--treeview-tree-expand :tag #("Feeds" 0 5 (mouse-face highlight help-echo "Feeds" :nt-vfeed nil :nt-feed nil :nt-id "feeds" keymap ... face newsticker-treeview-face)) :expander-p #[(&rest ignore) ".‡" [t] 1] :leaf-icon newsticker--tree-widget-leaf-icon :nt-group ("Telepolis (german)" "Tagesschau (german)" "Heise News (german)" "LWN (Linux Weekly News)" "Emacs Wiki" "Debian Security Advisories") :nt-id "feeds" :keep (:nt-id) :open t :node (item :tag #("Feeds" 0 5 ...))) :value-create) widget-default-create((tree-widget :args nil :expander newsticker--treeview-tree-expand :tag #("Feeds" 0 5 (mouse-face highlight help-echo "Feeds" :nt-vfeed nil :nt-feed nil :nt-id "feeds" keymap ... face newsticker-treeview-face)) :expander-p #[(&rest ignore) ".‡" [t] 1] :leaf-icon newsticker--tree-widget-leaf-icon :nt-group ("Telepolis (german)" "Tagesschau (german)" "Heise News (german)" "LWN (Linux Weekly News)" "Emacs Wiki" "Debian Security Advisories") :nt-id "feeds" :keep (:nt-id) :open t :node (item :tag #("Feeds" 0 5 ...)))) widget-apply((tree-widget :args nil :expander newsticker--treeview-tree-expand :tag #("Feeds" 0 5 (mouse-face highlight help-echo "Feeds" :nt-vfeed nil :nt-feed nil :nt-id "feeds" keymap ... face newsticker-treeview-face)) :expander-p #[(&rest ignore) ".‡" [t] 1] :leaf-icon newsticker--tree-widget-leaf-icon :nt-group ("Telepolis (german)" "Tagesschau (german)" "Heise News (german)" "LWN (Linux Weekly News)" "Emacs Wiki" "Debian Security Advisories") :nt-id "feeds" :keep (:nt-id) :open t :node (item :tag #("Feeds" 0 5 ...))) :create) widget-create(tree-widget :tag #("Feeds" 0 5 (mouse-face highlight help-echo "Feeds" :nt-vfeed nil :nt-feed nil :nt-id "feeds" keymap (keymap ... ... ...) face newsticker-treeview-face)) :expander newsticker--treeview-tree-expand :expander-p #[(&rest ignore) ".‡" [t] 1] :leaf-icon newsticker--tree-widget-leaf-icon :nt-group ("Telepolis (german)" "Tagesschau (german)" "Heise News (german)" "LWN (Linux Weekly News)" "Emacs Wiki" "Debian Security Advisories") :nt-id "feeds" :keep (:nt-id) :open t) newsticker--treeview-tree-update() newsticker--treeview-buffer-init() newsticker-treeview() call-interactively(newsticker-treeview nil nil) -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Sven Bretfeld ___________________________________ Prof. Dr. Sven Bretfeld \ CEntrum für CERES \ REligionswissenschaftliche ________\_Studien__________________ Ruhr-Universität Bochum Universitätsstraße 150 D-44780 Bochum http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ceres/de/organisation/beteiligte/sven_bretfeld.html