Problems with Gnus

[Harald Maier]

Symptoms:

The latest checkout has problem with gnus. The backtrace is as follows:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
  get-buffer(nil)
  buffer-disable-undo()
  gnus-dribble-read-file()

Harald

In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.7.0)
 of 2004-12-27 on gaia.local
Distributor `Apple Computers', version 10.3.7
configured using `configure '--enable-carbon' '--without-x''

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: de_DE.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Debugger

Minor modes in effect:
  desktop-save-mode: t
  cua-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
M-x g n u s <return> <help-echo> <help-echo> M-x t 
o o g <tab> <backspace> <backspace> g g <tab> r e a 
<tab> <return> M-x g n u s <return> <f4> M-x <right> 
<up> <up> <kp-end> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> d e <tab> <tab> e r <tab> <return> M-x 
<up> <up> <return> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> 
<report-emacs-bug>

Recent messages:
Making completion list...
Loading eieio-opt...done
Debug on Error enabled
Loading /Users/maierh/local/elisp/mailrc.el (source)...done
Loading /Users/maierh/elisp/rs-gnus-win.el (source)...
Using frames for messages.
Loading /Users/maierh/elisp/rs-gnus-win.el (source)...done
Loading debug...done
Entering debugger...
Loading emacsbug...done