Package: emacs21 Version: 21.4a+1-1 Severity: normal This happens once in a blue moon when I start gnus or move messages between groups. The error happens in function nnml-generate-active in file nnmail.el; on top of the backtrace is something like
Error: wrong type for format specifier (format "%S %d %d y\n" "mail\\.foo" 2 1) The utterly weird thing is that this shows format was called with a _string_ as the second argument, when gnus is calling intern () on the group name just before, so this should always be a symbol ?!? But even assuming that intern returned a string for some bizarre reason, a quick test show that (format "%S" "foo") works just fine and returns a string which is the print syntax of the argument string. I have to recover from this by executing nnml-generate-nov-databases which takes a long time :-( This one is probably best forwarded upstream; I haven't done so myself because, based on past experience, I'd be told to debug emacs with gdb :-( -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-9custom2+fuse Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages emacs21 depends on: ii emacs21-bin-common 21.4a+1-1 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-7 PNG library - runtime ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library ii libtiff4 3.8.2-6 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii libungif4g 4.1.4-4 shared library for GIF images ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxmu6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxpm4 1:3.5.5-2 X11 pixmap library ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-14 Xaw3d widget set ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime emacs21 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
