bug#33005: 27.0.50; Data loss with Gnus registry

[Michael Heerdegen]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Ok, can we close this report - seems we are done?

Sorry for the bad news - but my registry marks are disappearing again
:-(  Just after restarting Gnus they are gone.

I wanted to try with gnus-mock but it errors:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (buffer-read-only #<buffer 
.newsrc.eld|emacs-gnus-mock-ENKWay>)
  replace-match("/tmp/emacs-gnus-mock-ENKWay" t)
  gnus-mock-start()
 [...]

I tried to load the source of gnus-mock to get a more meaningful
backtrace but that also errors:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
  file-name-directory(nil)
  (expand-file-name "data" (file-name-directory load-file-name))
  (file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name "data" (file-name-directory 
load-file-name)))
  (defconst gnus-mock-data-dir (file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name "data" 
(file-name-directory load-file-name))) "Source directory for Gnus mock data.")
  eval-region(1 10407)  ; Reading at buffer position 5125

Hmm...

Michael.