Subject: Re: bug#38758: 28.0.50; gnus error in 28

From: Eric Abrahamsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 15:07:28 -0800

Vincent Zhang <[email-masked]> writes:

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)
>   <=(nil 6)
>   gnus-get-unread-articles(nil nil)
>   gnus-setup-news(nil nil nil)
>   #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x1ff08dde5bdd>)()
>   gnus-1(nil nil nil)
>   gnus(nil)

This happens when the variable `gnus-group-list-mode' is nil, which it
shouldn't be. Nothing has touched that variable any time recently -- can
you do some poking around and figure out why it's nil?