Subject: Unable to open server nnimap+gmail due to: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil

From: Sam Steingold <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 08:35:40 -0400

Checking new news...
Opening connection to imap.gmail.com via tls...
Unable to open server nnimap+gmail due to: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil
Unable to open server nntp+news.gwene.org due to: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil
Unable to open server nntp+news.eternal-september.org due to: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil
Reading active file via nndraft...done
Checking new news...done
No Gnus is good news
Warning: Unable to open server nntp+news.eternal-september.org due to: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil; Unable to open server nntp+news.gwene.org due to: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil; Unable to open server nnimap+gmail due to: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil; Opening nntp server on news.gmane.org...failed: ; Server nntp+news.gmane.org previously determined to be down; not retrying; Unable to open server nntp+news.gmane.org due to: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil

after that, when I manually open servers in *Server* buffer and hit "g"
in *Group*, I get this:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function nntp-report)
  nntp-with-open-group-function(nil "news.gmane.org" nil #[nil "\306!.\n\204.r	q\210\307.)	\205.\n\205.r	q\210)?\205.\f\310=\203?.\311\n@@.\312\313.\"\203;.
\314\225\307O\202<.
)!\210r	q\210\315 \210\316\211.\f\203Q.\317\202R.\320.(.)\n\307.*\211.+\203..+@.*\307.(.*@.\312\313.\"\203{.
\314\225\307O\202|.
  nntp-retrieve-group-data-early("news.gmane.org" nil)
  gnus-retrieve-group-data-early((nntp "news.gmane.org") nil)
  gnus-get-unread-articles(nil)
  gnus-group-get-new-news(nil)
  call-interactively(gnus-group-get-new-news nil nil)

Gnus v5.13
GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2012-05-30 on t520sds
200 mx04.eternal-september.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.6.0 (20120411 snapshot) ready (posting ok)
101 Capability list:
VERSION 2
IMPLEMENTATION INN 2.6.0 (20120411 snapshot)
AUTHINFO USER SASL
HDR
LIST ACTIVE ACTIVE.TIMES COUNTS DISTRIB.PATS DISTRIBUTIONS HEADERS MODERATORS MOTD NEWSGROUPS OVERVIEW.FMT SUBSCRIPTIONS
OVER
POST
READER
SASL DIGEST-MD5 PLAIN CRAM-MD5 NTLM LOGIN
STARTTLS
.
382 Begin TLS negotiation now
101 Capability list:
VERSION 2
IMPLEMENTATION INN 2.6.0 (20120411 snapshot)
AUTHINFO USER SASL
HDR
LIST ACTIVE ACTIVE.TIMES COUNTS DISTRIB.PATS DISTRIBUTIONS HEADERS MODERATORS MOTD NEWSGROUPS OVERVIEW.FMT SUBSCRIPTIONS
OVER
POST
READER
SASL DIGEST-MD5 PLAIN CRAM-MD5 NTLM LOGIN
.

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