From unknown Wed Jun 18 23:07:52 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#16611 <16611@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#16611 <16611@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: Gnus: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) when referring parent in IMAP group Reply-To: bug#16611 <16611@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 06:07:52 +0000 retitle 16611 Gnus: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) when referring parent= in IMAP group reassign 16611 gnus submitter 16611 Tassilo Horn severity 16611 normal tag 16611 fixed thanks From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Feb 01 03:19:06 2014 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Feb 2014 08:19:06 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43872 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W9Vn7-0008Km-8Y for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 03:19:05 -0500 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:34774) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W9Vn3-0008Jy-Gq for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 03:19:03 -0500 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.46]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1645320B83 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2014 03:19:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 01 Feb 2014 03:19:01 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id :mime-version:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=iK7tr4cYzXCpbnTUvKspbG Ec1vo=; b=sSjNlNTwmwqw9wODrBTg6T3idIUTvJd7qDpzwLfFQZH4PvQ1jwyGlL T3QraNF1WV3GY/jifkWL8wQUtI8KTqyoQtgFPSfNT/Hy286dXSpjC/A7+uve0BcK B/01zRdVlc+WqAJy7cT/muSB81a0vY1hHDJ8/XzM70GxKhDkBkQVs= X-Sasl-enc: CxXUVeJKoqu3oksFz7PLSDDebFo8/zW6ugZPAc3nPuGy 1391242740 Received: from thinkpad-t61.fritz.box (unknown [95.88.145.206]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3DFBD680239 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2014 03:19:00 -0500 (EST) From: Tassilo Horn To: submit@debbugs.gnu.org (The Gnus Bugfixing Girls + Boys) Subject: Gnus: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) when referring parent in IMAP group X-Debbugs-Version: 5.13001 X-Debbugs-Package: gnus Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:18:53 +0100 Message-ID: <87k3dffdoy.fsf@thinkpad-t61.fritz.box> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Score: 0.3 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: 0.3 (/) Hi all, when referring the parent article of some message in some IMAP group, I get the following error: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) string-match("^[^:]+:" nil) gnus-request-update-mark(nil nil 82) nnir-request-update-mark("INBOX.GNU" -1 82) gnus-request-update-mark("nnimap+Fastmail:INBOX.GNU" -1 82) gnus-summary-mark-article(-1 82) gnus-summary-mark-read-and-unread-as-read() run-hooks(gnus-mark-article-hook) apply(run-hooks gnus-mark-article-hook) gnus-run-hooks(gnus-mark-article-hook) gnus-article-prepare(-1 nil) gnus-summary-display-article(-1 nil) gnus-summary-select-article(nil nil nil -1) byte-code("\304 \305.\211.\203-. @.\306!\203&.\307\n!\211.\203&.\310\305\211\211 $\210\311\312\313\"\210 A\211.\204 .*\314\315\316\n#\207" [gnus-override-method --dolist-tail-- message-id number gnus-refer-article-methods nil gnus-check-server gnus-summary-insert-subject gnus-summary-select-article throw found t gnus-message 3 "Couldn't fetch article %s"] 6) gnus-summary-refer-article("<87eh3n90z7.fsf@thinkpad-t61.fritz.box>") gnus-summary-refer-parent-article(1) call-interactively(gnus-summary-refer-parent-article nil nil) command-execute(gnus-summary-refer-parent-article) As you can see, nnir is used because I have (setq gnus-refer-article-method '(current (nnregistry) (nnir))) This seems to happen reproducible, so I can provide any specifics if needed. Ma Gnus v0.10 GNU Emacs 24.3.50.8 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.7) of 2014-02-01 on thinkpad-t61 200 news.gmane.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.5.1 ready (posting ok) 100 Legal commands ARTICLE [message-ID|number] AUTHINFO USER name|PASS password|GENERIC program [argument ...] BODY [message-ID|number] CAPABILITIES [keyword] DATE GROUP newsgroup HDR header [message-ID|range] HEAD [message-ID|number] HELP IHAVE message-ID LAST LIST [ACTIVE [wildmat]|ACTIVE.TIMES [wildmat]|DISTRIB.PATS|DISTRIBUTIONS|HEADERS [MSGID|RANGE]|MODERATORS|MOTD|NEWSGROUPS [wildmat]|OVERVIEW.FMT|SUBSCRIPTIONS] LISTGROUP [newsgroup [range]] MODE READER NEWGROUPS [yy]yymmdd hhmmss [GMT] NEWNEWS wildmat [yy]yymmdd hhmmss [GMT] NEXT OVER [range] POST QUIT STARTTLS STAT [message-ID|number] XGTITLE [wildmat] XHDR header [message-ID|range] XOVER [range] XPAT header message-ID|range pattern [pattern ...] Report problems to . . 382 Begin TLS negotiation now 100 Legal commands ARTICLE [message-ID|number] AUTHINFO USER name|PASS password|GENERIC program [argument ...] BODY [message-ID|number] CAPABILITIES [keyword] DATE GROUP newsgroup HDR header [message-ID|range] HEAD [message-ID|number] HELP IHAVE message-ID LAST LIST [ACTIVE [wildmat]|ACTIVE.TIMES [wildmat]|DISTRIB.PATS|DISTRIBUTIONS|HEADERS [MSGID|RANGE]|MODERATORS|MOTD|NEWSGROUPS [wildmat]|OVERVIEW.FMT|SUBSCRIPTIONS] LISTGROUP [newsgroup [range]] MODE READER NEWGROUPS [yy]yymmdd hhmmss [GMT] NEWNEWS wildmat [yy]yymmdd hhmmss [GMT] NEXT OVER [range] POST QUIT STARTTLS STAT [message-ID|number] XGTITLE [wildmat] XHDR header [message-ID|range] XOVER [range] XPAT header message-ID|range pattern [pattern ...] Report problems to . . From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Feb 01 03:28:18 2014 Received: (at 16611) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Feb 2014 08:28:18 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43900 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W9Vw2-00008x-7x for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 03:28:18 -0500 Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:36754) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W9Vvz-00008o-7S for 16611@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 03:28:16 -0500 Received: from [204.14.154.233] (helo=building.gnus.org) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1W9Vvl-0002qV-4A; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:28:01 +0100 From: Lars Ingebrigtsen To: Tassilo Horn Subject: Re: bug#16611: Gnus: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) when referring parent in IMAP group References: <87k3dffdoy.fsf@thinkpad-t61.fritz.box> Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 00:27:09 -0800 In-Reply-To: <87k3dffdoy.fsf@thinkpad-t61.fritz.box> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:18:53 +0100") Message-ID: <87eh3nme5e.fsf@building.gnus.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-MailScanner-ID: 1W9Vvl-0002qV-4A X-Netfonds-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Netfonds-MailScanner-From: larsi@gnus.org MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1391848081.65487@74gVRd78GMQ6Rz1wK9Kl6w X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 16611 Cc: 16611@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Tassilo Horn writes: > when referring the parent article of some message in some IMAP group, I > get the following error: > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) > string-match("^[^:]+:" nil) > gnus-request-update-mark(nil nil 82) > nnir-request-update-mark("INBOX.GNU" -1 82) I've now make nnir check before calling the source group in bzr Emacs. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/ From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Feb 01 03:28:21 2014 Received: (at control) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Feb 2014 08:28:21 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43903 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W9Vw4-00009F-NZ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 03:28:20 -0500 Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:36760) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W9Vw3-000097-I7 for control@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 03:28:19 -0500 Received: from [204.14.154.233] (helo=building.gnus.org) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1W9Vvp-0002qc-Nr for control@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:28:06 +0100 Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 00:27:14 -0800 Message-Id: <87d2j7me59.fsf@building.gnus.org> To: control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Subject: control message for bug #16611 X-MailScanner-ID: 1W9Vvp-0002qc-Nr X-Netfonds-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Netfonds-MailScanner-From: larsi@gnus.org MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1391848086.38359@BANOO3WGI8SrgF6Hp1MeGA X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: control X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) tags 16611 fixed close 16611 24.4 From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Feb 01 03:29:31 2014 Received: (at 16611) by debbugs.gnu.org; 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Sat, 1 Feb 2014 03:29:28 -0500 (EST) From: Tassilo Horn To: 16611@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#16611: Gnus: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) when referring parent in IMAP group References: <87k3dffdoy.fsf@thinkpad-t61.fritz.box> Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:29:21 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87k3dffdoy.fsf@thinkpad-t61.fritz.box> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:18:53 +0100") Message-ID: <87fvo3fd7i.fsf@thinkpad-t61.fritz.box> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Score: 0.3 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 16611 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: 0.3 (/) Tassilo Horn writes: > when referring the parent article of some message in some IMAP group, I > get the following error: Ah, and it seems nnir has actually found the referred article. It's inserted in the summary and it's opened in an Article buffer. However, the error seems to prevent that buffer to be shown and font-locking and header hiding to be performed in there, i.e., when switching there I can see the raw message with all headers all in black on white. Bye, Tassilo From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Feb 01 03:31:40 2014 Received: (at 16611) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Feb 2014 08:31:40 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43914 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W9VzD-0001Ox-NB for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 03:31:39 -0500 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:59843) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W9Vz7-0001Oh-5D for 16611@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 03:31:33 -0500 Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04D9C20848; Sat, 1 Feb 2014 03:31:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 01 Feb 2014 03:31:28 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date :in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=HzTc1VU13aj+Ol3zqwmwP6Cj4VA=; b=S+GyZieveIxYV5pFBtEff/mju9US QNgW0yjwjEzXS7a9LsCCSoKuvpzn6vnw4+emcPEdwdh9i8jF8q5u/g1jXhwvgJol 2WmbCtYFmlTqP1IfloLrY88WjtOcHNomOdCEeemYXrse2ZEe2H74EK/nW54WJmqQ 1Bq0syO+GqQNZB4= X-Sasl-enc: yrDt+jZ/xmEloiAB1AUj2cGnwH5I4ZAMtW0uhLET1f0Q 1391243488 Received: from thinkpad-t61.fritz.box (unknown [95.88.145.206]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 6C290680185; Sat, 1 Feb 2014 03:31:28 -0500 (EST) From: Tassilo Horn To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Subject: Re: bug#16611: Gnus: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) when referring parent in IMAP group References: <87k3dffdoy.fsf@thinkpad-t61.fritz.box> <87eh3nme5e.fsf@building.gnus.org> Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:31:21 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87eh3nme5e.fsf@building.gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 01 Feb 2014 00:27:09 -0800") Message-ID: <87bnyrfd46.fsf@thinkpad-t61.fritz.box> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Score: 0.3 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 16611 Cc: 16611@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: 0.3 (/) Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: >> when referring the parent article of some message in some IMAP group, >> I get the following error: >> >> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) >> string-match("^[^:]+:" nil) >> gnus-request-update-mark(nil nil 82) >> nnir-request-update-mark("INBOX.GNU" -1 82) > > I've now make nnir check before calling the source group in bzr Emacs. I use Gnus from git. I guess that change will propagate there somehow. Bye, Tassilo From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Feb 01 03:32:35 2014 Received: (at 16611) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Feb 2014 08:32:35 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43924 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W9W0A-0001RD-Qc for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 03:32:35 -0500 Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:42946) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W9W02-0001Qy-7a for 16611@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 03:32:32 -0500 Received: from [204.14.154.233] (helo=building.gnus.org) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1W9Vzn-0002vO-7W; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:32:11 +0100 From: Lars Ingebrigtsen To: Tassilo Horn Subject: Re: bug#16611: Gnus: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) when referring parent in IMAP group References: <87k3dffdoy.fsf@thinkpad-t61.fritz.box> <87eh3nme5e.fsf@building.gnus.org> <87bnyrfd46.fsf@thinkpad-t61.fritz.box> Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 00:31:19 -0800 In-Reply-To: <87bnyrfd46.fsf@thinkpad-t61.fritz.box> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:31:21 +0100") Message-ID: <8761ozmdyg.fsf@building.gnus.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-MailScanner-ID: 1W9Vzn-0002vO-7W X-Netfonds-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Netfonds-MailScanner-From: larsi@gnus.org MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1391848332.82432@LuwfezdX55gLVHs7+XcvjA X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 16611 Cc: 16611@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Tassilo Horn writes: > I use Gnus from git. I guess that change will propagate there somehow. Yup. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/ From unknown Wed Jun 18 23:07:52 2025 Received: (at fakecontrol) by fakecontrolmessage; To: internal_control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Debbugs Internal Request Subject: Internal Control Message-Id: bug archived. Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:24:04 +0000 User-Agent: Fakemail v42.6.9 # This is a fake control message. # # The action: # bug archived. thanks # This fakemail brought to you by your local debbugs # administrator