bug#7259: 24.0.50; invalid-function gnus-alist-pull

[Michael Albinus]

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and the precise symptoms of the bug.  If you can, give
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When I start gnus, it fails with

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-function gnus-alist-pull)
  gnus-alist-pull(gnus-demon-close-connections nil)
  gnus-demon-remove-handler(gnus-demon-close-connections)
  gnus-demon-add-handler(gnus-demon-close-connections nil 240)
  eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/albinus/.gnus" nil t)  ; Reading at 
buffer position 2416
  load-with-code-conversion("/home/albinus/.gnus" "/home/albinus/.gnus" nil t)
  load("~/.gnus" nil t)
  gnus-read-init-file()
  gnus-1(nil nil nil)
  gnus(nil)
  call-interactively(gnus nil nil)


If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file
/usr/local/share/emacs/24.0.50/etc/DEBUG.


In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.11 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
 of 2010-10-21 on ubu1004
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10706000
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
  display-time-mode: t
  iswitchb-mode: t
  icomplete-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-x C-f s r <tab> t r a <tab> <return> <down> <down>
<return> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <right> <right>
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right>
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right>
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right>
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right>
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right>
<right> <right> - p r e C-x C-s C-x C-f c o n f i g
u r <tab> . a <tab> <return> C-x k <return> <home>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <file>
<make-frame> <switch-frame> <f2> C-x C-f <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> . g
n u <tab> s C-g <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <options> <debug-on-error> <f2>
<help-echo> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up>
<up> <up> <down> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right>
<return> C-x C-f C-g C-x C-f C-g <escape> x r e p o
<tab> r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Wrote /home/albinus/src/tramp/ChangeLog
Mark set
byte-code: Error in ~/.gnus: gnus-alist-pull
Making completion list...
Quit
Debug on Error enabled globally
Entering debugger...
Loading vc-bzr...done
Quit [2 times]
Making completion list...

Load-path shadows:
~/src/tramp/lisp/tramp-gvfs hides /usr/local/src/emacs/lisp/net/tramp-gvfs
~/src/tramp/lisp/tramp-ftp hides /usr/local/src/emacs/lisp/net/tramp-ftp
~/src/tramp/lisp/trampver hides /usr/local/src/emacs/lisp/net/trampver
~/src/tramp/lisp/tramp hides /usr/local/src/emacs/lisp/net/tramp
~/src/tramp/lisp/tramp-imap hides /usr/local/src/emacs/lisp/net/tramp-imap
~/src/tramp/lisp/tramp-cmds hides /usr/local/src/emacs/lisp/net/tramp-cmds
~/src/tramp/lisp/tramp-cache hides /usr/local/src/emacs/lisp/net/tramp-cache
~/src/tramp/lisp/tramp-smb hides /usr/local/src/emacs/lisp/net/tramp-smb
~/lisp/dbus hides /usr/local/src/emacs/lisp/net/dbus
~/src/tramp/lisp/tramp-loaddefs hides 
/usr/local/src/emacs/lisp/net/tramp-loaddefs
~/src/tramp/lisp/tramp-sh hides /usr/local/src/emacs/lisp/net/tramp-sh
~/src/tramp/lisp/tramp-gw hides /usr/local/src/emacs/lisp/net/tramp-gw
~/src/tramp/lisp/tramp-compat hides /usr/local/src/emacs/lisp/net/tramp-compat
~/src/tramp/lisp/tramp-uu hides /usr/local/src/emacs/lisp/net/tramp-uu

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr warnings emacsbug vc-bzr sha1 hex-util find-func
debug cus-start cus-load help-mode view gnus-demon nntp gnus-group
time-date gnus-undo nnmail mail-source nnoo gnus-start gnus-spec
gnus-int gnus-range message sendmail rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode
mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums
mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader gnus-win gnus gnus-ems nnheader
mail-utils mm-util mail-prsvr wid-edit autoconf autoconf-mode time-stamp
parse-time vc-cvs add-log finder-inf package cperl-mode easymenu time
tramp tramp-compat auth-source netrc gnus-util password-cache
format-spec advice help-fns advice-preload cl tramp-loaddefs iswitchb
jka-compr icomplete paren ps-print ps-def lpr vc vc-dispatcher dired
regexp-opt tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win
x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar
rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax
facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese
tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak
czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook
jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev loaddefs button minibuffer faces
cus-face files text-properties overlay md5 base64 format env code-pages
mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote
make-network-process dbusbind dynamic-setting font-render-setting
move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)