Subject: Re: bug#35130: 27.0.50; gnus cannot save

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 22:53:32 +0100

James Cloos <[email-masked]> writes:

> As of master commit 39c0795ef2d592d4632516ee57f1cf51a2159608 gnus is
> unable to save.
>
> The error (w/ debug-on-error t) is:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)
>   gnus-gnus-to-newsrc-format()
>   gnus-save-newsrc-file(nil)
>   gnus-group-save-newsrc(nil)
>   funcall-interactively(gnus-group-save-newsrc nil)
>   call-interactively(gnus-group-save-newsrc nil nil)
>   command-execute(gnus-group-save-newsrc)
>
> I also got that error a few times while trying to sort the *Group*
> buffer, but then that started working.
>
> Saving has not started working.
>
> At a quick look of the recent history, commits
> a09306d53ba86b4596219b2be723659f7c0f2669 and
> a8efdd4c62fbf9c275a57f71cc8a3ca845ad3b1f look relevant.

Could this be related to bug#34983?
Does the error still occur after a 'make bootstrap'?

https://debbugs.gnu.org/34983

Thanks,

-- 
Basil