Subject: bug#36290: intern-soft C code: Empty *Summary* buffer, wrong argument type

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 09:52:26 -0400

Spenser Truex <[email-masked]> writes:

> After trying to open a group:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- in
> the *Messages* Buffer gnus-request-group: Wrong type argument: vectorp,
> #s(hash-table size 9 test equal ...)  Gnus v5.13 GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 4,
> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.1) of 2019-06-18
>
> *Backtrace*
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument vectorp #<hash-table equal 9/9
> 0x158914f9a041>)
>   intern-soft("nntp+news.gnus.org:gnu.emacs.gnews"
>               #<hash-table equal 9/9 0x158914f9a041>)
>   gnus-request-group("nntp+news.gnus.org:gnu.emacs.gnews" t nil
> ("nntp+news.gnus.org:gnu.emacs.gnews" 3 nil nil "news.gnus.org"))

A grep for intern-soft in master returns only 3 hits, and none of them
seem to be in gnus-request-group.  If you did 'git pull', perhaps some
of the elc files weren't recompiled following a change in macros/inline
functions.  Could you try again after doing

    rm lisp/gnus/*.elc; make