[VM] wrong type argument

[Salome Södergran]

Hi!

When I try to save and exit from a certain mail-folder I get the
message:

vm-stuff-thunderbird-status: Wrong type argument: integer-or-marker-p,
300000000.0

It happens with just this one folder, and started to do so only
recently. What does this mean and how can I get things working again?

Salome

[Uday Reddy]

Post by Salome Södergran
Hi!
When I try to save and exit from a certain mail-folder I get the
vm-stuff-thunderbird-status: Wrong type argument: integer-or-marker-p,
300000000.0
It happens with just this one folder, and started to do so only
recently. What does this mean and how can I get things working again?

You haven't said which version of VM you are using.

There is an old problem covered here

https://bugs.launchpad.net/vm/+bug/594842

Is this what you are facing?

Cheers,
Uday

[Salome Södergran]

Post by Uday Reddy

Post by Salome Södergran
Hi!
When I try to save and exit from a certain mail-folder I get the
vm-stuff-thunderbird-status: Wrong type argument: integer-or-marker-p,
300000000.0
It happens with just this one folder, and started to do so only
recently. What does this mean and how can I get things working again?

You haven't said which version of VM you are using.

Version 8.1.93a.

Post by Uday Reddy
There is an old problem covered here
https://bugs.launchpad.net/vm/+bug/594842
Is this what you are facing?

The difference to the situation in the bug description is that I am not
trying to visit a genuine thunderbird folder and that it is a fairly small
folder (533k). It used to be a thunderbird folder but after switching to
vm I copied it to my vm-mail-folder and have ever since been using it as
a vm-folder only. As mentioned before there were no problems with it
until just lately.

regards, salome

[Uday Reddy]

Post by Salome Södergran
The difference to the situation in the bug description is that I am not
trying to visit a genuine thunderbird folder and that it is a fairly small
folder (533k). It used to be a thunderbird folder but after switching to
vm I copied it to my vm-mail-folder and have ever since been using it as
a vm-folder only. As mentioned before there were no problems with it
until just lately.

Ok, then, it looks like a possible bug. Here is what you need to do.

- After visiting the folder, do M-x load-library RET vm-folder.el RET

- Do M-x toggle-debug-on-error.

Then you can do whatever you need to do to get the error to occur.
Emacs should enter a debug mode and show a Backtrace. Copy the entire
text of the Backtrace buffer and paste it into a VM bug report, which is
done by running M-x vm-submit-bug-report.

(I am assuming that you have .el files in your load-path. If not, you
would need to load vm-folder.el from wherever the .el files are stored.)

You can go back to the Backtrace buffer and type `q' to resume your work.

Cheers,
Uday

[Salome Södergran]

Post by Uday Reddy
Ok, then, it looks like a possible bug. Here is what you need to do.

Done.

[Uday S Reddy]

Post by Salome Södergran
Hi!
When I try to save and exit from a certain mail-folder I get the
vm-stuff-thunderbird-status: Wrong type argument: integer-or-marker-p,
300000000.0
It happens with just this one folder, and started to do so only
recently. What does this mean and how can I get things working again?

Just to close off this discussion in the newsgroup. Salome reports that
this problem does not occur in version 8.2.0a.

Cheers,
Uday