gnuserv error

[Roger Mason]

Hello,

I am using emacs 21.1.1 on suse 8.0 and trying to get gnuserv 3.12.5
running.

I installed gnuserv as directed in the documentation and put this in
~/.gnu-emacs-custom:

;; For gnuserv
(autoload 'gnuserv-start "gnuserv-compat"
  "Allow this Emacs process to be a server for client processes."
  t)

I invoke gnuserv in a running emacs with M-x gnuserv-start.  On
attempting to connect to emacs with 

gnuclient crap.txt

the following backtrace is generated:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-function 1)
  signal(invalid-function (1))
  (condition-case oops (eval (car ...)) (error (setq gnuserv-string "") (when 
gnuserv-current-client ...) (setq gnuserv-current-client nil) (signal ... ...)) 
(quit (setq gnuserv-string "") (when gnuserv-current-client ...) (setq 
gnuserv-current-client nil) (signal ... nil)))
  (let ((header ...)) (setq gnuserv-current-client (car header)) 
(condition-case oops (eval ...) (error ... ... ... ...) (quit ... ... ... ...)) 
(setq gnuserv-string ""))
  (cond ((string-match "\\`[0-9]+" gnuserv-string) (let ... ... ... ...)) (t 
(let ... ... ...)))
  (progn (cond (... ...) (t ...)))
  (if (string-match "\n?\\'" gnuserv-string) (progn (cond ... ...)))
  (when (string-match "\n?\\'" gnuserv-string) (cond (... ...) (t ...)))
  gnuserv-process-filter(#<process gnuserv> "4 (1 . 
\"/home/rmason/crap.txt\")))")

I looked through ~/.emacs, /etc/skel/.gnu-emacs and
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el but there are no references to
gnuserv.  I have tried various ways of starting emacs/gnuserv (from
the command line with the -f argument, with -q and/or --no-site-file
and using the dtemacs.sh script that came with gnuserv.  An attempt to
connect always results in the above backtrace.

I have three RH systems ranging in vintage from 5.2 to 8, with emacs
21.1 or 21.2 on which gnuserv works flawlessly, so I wonder if there
is something specific to suse that causes the problem.

Thanks for any help.

Roger Mason