Re: problems invoking org-agenda

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Peter Salazar <cycleofsong@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah perfect! I followed your steps and tracked the problem down to one
> of my agenda files. Not sure why org didn't like it, but when I
> removed that file from my agenda list, it worked like a charm. 
> 

Did you get a backtrace? That (in combination with the file itself)
should tell pretty clearly why org didn't like it.

> Thank you!
> 

You are welcome!

Nick

> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:52 AM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> 
>     Peter Salazar <cycleofsong@gmail.com> wrote:
>    
>     > Maybe this is too esoteric for anyone to know, but I'm struggling and I can't figure this out. 
>     >
>     > The time is Aquamacs 2.4. The place is org-mode 7.8.03. When I try to invoke org-agenda (C-c a a ---
>     > i.e.  "Agenda for current week or day"), I get the error message: 
>     >
>     > Args out of range: #(" work :        " 0 14 org-category "work" tags nil org-highest-priority 65
>     > or-lowest priority 67 time-of-day nil ...)), 0, 20
>     >
>     > As far as I know I don't have any categories or priorities. 
>     >
>     > Has anyone seen this before? 
>     >
>    
>     It's probably because of a bad customization. To make sure,
>     run with a minimal .emacs that just loads org and *none*
>     of your customizations, something as simple as the following
>     (with obvious adjustments for your setup):
>    
>     --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>     ;;; -*- mode: emacs-lisp -*-
>     ;;; constant part
>     (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/src/emacs/org/org-mode/lisp"))
>     (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.\\(org\\|org_archive\\|txt\\)$" . org-mode))
>     (require 'org-install)
>    
>     (setq debug-on-error t)
>     (setq debug-on-quit t)
>     (setq eval-expression-print-length nil)
>     (setq eval-expression-print-level nil)
>    
>     (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
>     (global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
>     --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>    
>     Save this in your home directory as minimal.org.el and start emacs
>     with
>    
>            emacs -q -l ~/minimal.org.el
>    
>     and then do C-c a a - do you get the error? Probably not.
>    
>     The second thing you should do (this in your full emacs session,
>     where you get the error) is
>    
>     M-x toggle-debug-on-error RET
>    
>     and then C-c a a to trigger the error - but now it will produce a
>     backtrace which should tell you where the error occurred.  If you can't
>     figure it out, post the backtrace to the list.
>    
>     Nick
> 
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