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intern-soft C code: Empty *Summary* buffer, wrong argument type

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From: Spenser Truex <me <at> spensertruex.com>
To: submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (The Gnus Bugfixing Girls + Boys)
Subject: intern-soft C code: Empty *Summary* buffer, wrong argument type
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 23:41:31 -0700

Hello! I tried the latest Emacs and broke my Gnus.

Tried with emacs -Q, and with a brand new user. Same results for nnimap and
nntp. When in the *Group* buffer, Gnus is able to retrieve news, but can't open
it. Upon pressing RET on a group, a *Summary* buffer is opened in the
background, but without any contents. Gnus commands in that *Summary* buffer
make errors, but the same one.

After digging around for a bit, it looks like intern-soft in the C code might be
causing the problem. Another issue I haven't been able to reproduce was
intern-soft returning NIL when an integer-or-marker-p was expected. In the
backtrace it is receiving wrong arguments.

After trying to open a group:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- in
the *Messages* Buffer gnus-request-group: Wrong type argument: vectorp,
#s(hash-table size 9 test equal ...)  Gnus v5.13 GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 4,
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.1) of 2019-06-18

*Backtrace*
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument vectorp #<hash-table equal 9/9
0x158914f9a041>)
  intern-soft("nntp+news.gnus.org:gnu.emacs.gnews"
              #<hash-table equal 9/9 0x158914f9a041>)
  gnus-request-group("nntp+news.gnus.org:gnu.emacs.gnews" t nil
("nntp+news.gnus.org:gnu.emacs.gnews" 3 nil nil "news.gnus.org"))
  gnus-select-newsgroup("nntp+news.gnus.org:gnu.emacs.gnews" nil nil)
  gnus-summary-read-group-1("nntp+news.gnus.org:gnu.emacs.gnews" nil t nil nil nil)
  gnus-summary-read-group("nntp+news.gnus.org:gnu.emacs.gnews" nil t nil nil nil nil)
  gnus-group-read-group(nil t)
  gnus-group-select-group(nil)
  funcall-interactively(gnus-group-select-group nil)
  call-interactively(gnus-group-select-group nil nil)
  command-execute(gnus-group-select-group)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Message #8 received at 36290 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Spenser Truex <me <at> spensertruex.com>
Cc: 36290 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36290: intern-soft C code: Empty *Summary* buffer,
 wrong argument type
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 09:52:26 -0400

Spenser Truex <me <at> spensertruex.com> writes:

> After trying to open a group:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- in
> the *Messages* Buffer gnus-request-group: Wrong type argument: vectorp,
> #s(hash-table size 9 test equal ...)  Gnus v5.13 GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 4,
> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.1) of 2019-06-18
>
> *Backtrace*
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument vectorp #<hash-table equal 9/9
> 0x158914f9a041>)
>   intern-soft("nntp+news.gnus.org:gnu.emacs.gnews"
>               #<hash-table equal 9/9 0x158914f9a041>)
>   gnus-request-group("nntp+news.gnus.org:gnu.emacs.gnews" t nil
> ("nntp+news.gnus.org:gnu.emacs.gnews" 3 nil nil "news.gnus.org"))

A grep for intern-soft in master returns only 3 hits, and none of them
seem to be in gnus-request-group.  If you did 'git pull', perhaps some
of the elc files weren't recompiled following a change in macros/inline
functions.  Could you try again after doing

    rm lisp/gnus/*.elc; make

Message #11 received at 36290 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 36290 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Spenser Truex <me <at> spensertruex.com>
Subject: Re: bug#36290: intern-soft C code: Empty *Summary* buffer, wrong
 argument type
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:40:03 +0200

Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com> writes:

> A grep for intern-soft in master returns only 3 hits, and none of them
> seem to be in gnus-request-group.  If you did 'git pull', perhaps some
> of the elc files weren't recompiled following a change in macros/inline
> functions.  Could you try again after doing
>
>     rm lisp/gnus/*.elc; make

More information was requested, but no response was given within a few
months, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the problem still exists,
please reopen this bug report.

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