Mike> Parsing /home/kupfer/.mailrc... done Mike> Parsing /home/kupfer/.mailrc... Mike> Loading xemacsbug...done Mike> Loading xemacsbug... Mike> No such face: gnus-splash-face Mike> Loading gnus-start...done Mike> Loading gnus-start... Mike> Attempt to save to a file which you aren't allowed to write sjt> Do you know what's going on here? Not exactly. The "wrong type argument" error (below) is due to a bug[1] in MH-E 7.92, which I'm beta testing. This apparently confused XEmacs into thinking it should ask me if I want to migrate from .emacs to .xemacs/{init,custom}.el. I said "no"; $HOME/.emacs was under revision control and not checked out, so it was non-writable. Mike> Loading efs-cu...done Mike> Loading efs-cu... Mike> Note: file is write protected Mike> Loading cus-edit...done Mike> Loading customization dependencies...done Mike> Loading customization dependencies... Mike> Loading cus-edit... Mike> Error in init file: Wrong type argument: number-char-or-marker-p, nil Oddly enough, I have since migrated my .emacs to .xemacs/{init,custom}.el, and I can no longer reproduce the gnus failure. Thanks for pointing out the errors/warnings in the log. I'd failed to notice them when I submitted the bug report. mike Notes: [1] https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1436924&...