bug#7330: 24.0.50; Gnus: Symbol's function definition is void

[Rares Vernica]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 04 2010, Rares Vernica wrote:
>
>> I open Gnus and it checks for new emails. Everything works fine and all
>> the groups are displayed. When I try to enter a group I get the flowing
>> error message:
>>
>> insert: Symbol's function definition is void: gnus-user-format-function-b
>>
>> M-x toggle-debug-on-error:
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function gnus-user-format-function-b)
>>   (gnus-user-format-function-b gnus-tmp-header)
>
> `bbdb-insinuate-gnus' defines this alias (in BBDB 2.35):
>
> ,----[ <f1> f gnus-user-format-function-b RET ]
> | gnus-user-format-function-b is an alias for 
> | `bbdb/gnus-summary-author-in-bbdb'.
> | (gnus-user-format-function-b HEADER)
> | 
> | Given a Gnus message header, returns a mark if the poster is in the
> | BBDB, " " otherwise.  The mark itself is the value of the field
> | indicated by `bbdb-message-marker-field' (`mark-char' by default) if
> | the indicated field is in the poster's record, and
> | `bbdb/gnus-summary-known-poster-mark' otherwise.
> `----
>
>> This might also be related. If I have BBDB enabled I get the following
>> error message when Gnus starts:
>>
>> Symbol's function definition is void: bbdb-insinuate-gnus
>>
>> I had to disable BBDB in order to get emacs to load.
>
> Probably you didn't install and BBDB correctly.

I think it was because I did not properly initialize BBDB. I reinstalled
BBDB and initialize it properly and now everything works.

Thanks!
Rares