Subject: can't open gmane when starting gnus have to reopen it twice

From: Uwe Brauer <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:05:51 +0100

Hi 

When starting gnus I obtain the following error trace (debut-on-signal
t)
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (end-of-file #<buffer " *temp*">)
  read(#<buffer " *temp*">)
  byte-code("..." [gnus-agent-directory new-list old-list nnheader-insert-file-contents nnheader-concat "lib/categories" read nil (byte-code "Àp!‡" [read] 2) ((error)) mapcar #<compiled-function (from "/home/oub/xemacs/site-lisp/packages/ma-gnus-09/lisp/gnus-agent.elc") (c) "...(59)" [symb #:result c #:result-tail #:head2 #:head1 delete* nil ... valu] 7 0x4219>] 5)
  gnus-category-read()
  gnus-open-agent()
  gnus-agentize()
  gnus-1(nil nil nil)
  gnus(nil)
  call-interactively(gnus)
 
When I go to the server list buffer gmane is closed, when I try to open
it I receive another error which I attache, however the second intend is
then successful. This is really annoying and started a couple of weeks
ago.

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument arrayp auth-source-backend)
  byte-code("..." [tobj firstarg 0 object nil (byte-code "	HÂNÃHÄa" [object-class tobj eieio-class-definition 0 defclass] 2) ((error))] 4)
  eieio-generic-call(constructor (auth-source-backend "~/.authinfo" :source "~/.authinfo" :type netrc :search-function auth-source-netrc-search :create-function auth-source-netrc-create))
  constructor(auth-source-backend "~/.authinfo" :source "~/.authinfo" :type netrc :search-function auth-source-netrc-search :create-function auth-source-netrc-create)
  apply(constructor auth-source-backend "~/.authinfo" (:source "~/.authinfo" :type netrc :search-function auth-source-netrc-search :create-function auth-source-netrc-create))
  auth-source-backend("~/.authinfo" :source "~/.authinfo" :type netrc :search-function auth-source-netrc-search :create-function auth-source-netrc-create)
  auth-source-backend-parse((:source "~/.authinfo"))
  auth-source-backend-parse("~/.authinfo")
  mapcar(auth-source-backend-parse ("~/.authinfo" "~/.authinfo.gpg" "~/.netrc"))
  auth-source-search(:max 1 :host ("news.gmane.org" "news.gmane.org") :port ("119" "nntp" "nntp" "563" "nntps" "snews"))
  nntp-send-authinfo(t)
  nntp-open-connection(#<buffer " *nntpd*">)
  nntp-open-server("news.gmane.org" nil)
  byte-code("..." [open-server-function gnus-command-method] 3)
  gnus-open-server((nntp "news.gmane.org"))
  #<compiled-function (from gnus-server-open-server) (server) "...(227)" [gnus-server-method-cache alist method servers opened server assoc "native" format "%s:%s" nil 4 t server-name (byte-code "
®	¬ÆÇ\"ÆÈD\"
A@É¶«ÊË
@\"ªÊÌ
@
A@#
B¶¬¬Í@\"¬B\n*" ... 5) error "No such server: %s" gnus-server-set-status ok gnus-open-server gnus-server-update-server gnus-server-position-point match result gnus-select-method gnus-server-alist gnus-predefined-server-alist gnus-opened-servers gnus-secondary-select-methods gnus-newsrc-alist nocache no-enter-cache] 6 ("/home/oub/xemacs/site-lisp/packages/ma-gnus-09/lisp/gnus-srvr.elc" . 13767) (list (gnus-server-server-name)) 0x4135>("news.gmane.org")
  call-interactively(gnus-server-open-server)
  recursive-edit()
  byte-code("..." [buffer-read-only noninteractive debugger-buffer middlestart debugger-args debugger-batch-max-lines pop-to-buffer debugger-mode debugger-setup-buffer count-lines 2 "...\n" message buffer-string kill-emacs debug backtrace-debug 3 t debugger-reenable "" nil recursive-edit standard-output] 3)
  debug(error (end-of-file #<buffer " *temp*">))
  read(#<buffer " *temp*">)
  byte-code("..." [gnus-agent-directory new-list old-list nnheader-insert-file-contents nnheader-concat "lib/categories" read nil (byte-code "Àp!" [read] 2) ((error)) mapcar #<compiled-function (from "/home/oub/xemacs/site-lisp/packages/ma-gnus-09/lisp/gnus-agent.elc") (c) "...(59)" [symb #:result c #:result-tail #:head2 #:head1 delete* nil ... valu] 7 0x4219>] 5)
  gnus-category-read()
  gnus-open-agent()
  gnus-agentize()
  gnus-1(nil nil nil)
  gnus(nil)
  call-interactively(gnus)

Ma Gnus v0.10
XEmacs 21.5  (beta33) "horseradish" [Lucid] (i686-pc-linux, Mule) of Fri Oct 17 2014 on Burrurr
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 ...]
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