Subject: bug#9075: expecting a list, got a vector

From: Dave Abrahams <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:50:38 -0400

on Tue Aug 02 2011, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi-AT-gnus.org> wrote:

> Dave Abrahams <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Here's an example:
>>
>>   byte-code("\203
>>
>> Ugh!  I had an example in the backtrace buffer and copied it to kill,
>> but a null character embedded in the bytecode cut it off.
>>
>> Ah, saved by browse-kill-ring.  I replaced the null with "^@":
>>
>>   byte-code("\203^@\302\303!\210\304 !\210\305\207" [debug-on-quit
>> process debug "Quit" delete-process nil] 2)
>>   nnimap-wait-for-response(259)
>>   nnimap-get-response(259)
>>   nnimap-command("UID SEARCH SENTBEFORE %s" "26-JUL-2011")
>>   nnimap-find-expired-articles("INBOX")
>
> What's in the "*nnimap ...*" buffer when this happens?

I don't know.  It happens in varied circumstances and of course I've
done things in my Gnus session since.  Maybe next time I'll just fire up
a new emacs and keep the failed state around.

I have 3 of those *nnimap ...* buffers around at the moment.  The only
suspicious one contains:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
* SEARCH 32470 32592 34694 34852 34982 34995 34999 35185 35347 35355 35390 35395 35412 35438 35495 35643 35715 35763 35784 35810 35866 35867 35871 35872 35873 35874 35875 35876 35880 35885 35886 35888 35889 35896 35911 35916 35917 35918 35919 35927 35928 35931 35933 35934 35935 35940 35941 35942 35943 35946 35947 35949 35950 35951 35952 35953 35954 35956 35962 35964 35965 35966 35970 35971 35973 35976 35979 35981 35982 35984 35985 35987 35989 35990 35991 35992 35993 35994 35996 35997 35998 36001 36002 36003 36004 36014 36017 36018 36019 36020 36022 36024 36025 36045 36050 36051 36052 36053 36054 36059 36060 36061 36063 36064 36065 36069 36076 36077 36079 36080 36081 36082 36083 36084 36085 36088 36089 36093 36095 36096 36097 36098 36099 36101 36103 36104 36105 36106 36107 36108 36109 36110 36111 36112 36113 36114 36115 36116 36117 36118 36119 36120 36121 36122 36123 36124 36125 36126 36127 36128 36129 36130 36131 36132 36133 36134 36135 36136 36137 36138 36139 36140 36141 36142 36143 36144 36145 36146 36147 36148 36149 36150 36151 36152 36153 36154 36155 36156 36157 36158 36159 36160 36161 36162 36163 36164 36165 36166 36167 36168 36169 36170 36171 36172 36173 36174 36175 36176 36177 36178 36179 36180 36181 36182 36183 36184 36185 36186 36187 36188 36189 36190 36191 36192 36193 36194 36195 36196 36197 36198 36199 36200 36201 36202 36203 36204 36205 36206 36207 36208 36209 36210 36211 36212 36213 36214 36215 36216 36217 36218 36219 36220 36221 36222 36223 36224 36225 36226 36227 36228 36229 36230 36231 36232 36233 36234 36235 36236 36237 36238 36239 36240 36241 36242 36243 36244 36245 36246 36247 36248 36249 36250 36251 36252 36253 36254 36255 36256 36257 36258 36259 36260 36261 36262 36263 36264 36265 36266 36267 36268 36269 36270 36271 36272 36273 36274 36275 36276 36277 36278 36279 36280 36281 36282 36283 36284 36285 36286 36287 36288 36289 36290 36291 36292 36293 36294 36295 36296 36297 36298 36299 36300 36301 36302 36303 36304 36307 36308 36309 36310 36311 36312 36313 36314 36315 36316 36317 36318 36319 36320 36321 36333 36335 36336 36340 36349 36350 36351 36352 36353 36354 36355 36356 36357 36360 36364 36367 36370 36371 36372 36377 36381 36382 36383 36384 36385 36388 36391 36393 36400 36406 36407 36408 36410 36411 36412 36413 36420 36424 36425 36428 36429 36430 36431 36435 36442 36445 36448
169 OK SEARCH completed (Success)
* 681 EXISTS
170 OK Success
172 OK Success
174 OK Success
176 OK Success
178 OK Success
180 OK Success
*** Fatal error: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.
*** Server has terminated the connection abnormally.

Process *nnimap* exited abnormally with code 1
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Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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