Re: "Record %s does not exist"

[Roland W. <wi...@gn...>]

On Thu Sep 13 2012 Sam Steingold wrote:
> I created a record and now I get these:
> 
>   error("Record %s does not exist" [nil nil nil nil nil nil nil
> ("Ch...@al...") ((creation-date . "2012-09-13 21:38:52 +0000"))
> [#1="" #1# nil nil]])
>   bbdb-display-records(([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil
> ("Ch...@al...") ((creation-date . "2012-09-13 21:38:52 +0000"))
> [#1="" #1# nil nil]]) nil nil nil (lambda (window) (with-current-buffer
> (window-buffer window) (eq major-mode (quote gnus-article-mode)))))
>   bbdb-mua-auto-update()
>   run-hooks(gnus-article-prepare-hook)
>   apply(run-hooks gnus-article-prepare-hook)
>   gnus-run-hooks(gnus-article-prepare-hook)
> 
> the record is precisely as I want it: it does not have a name
> because no name was provided in the message it was created from.

Please look at the code that generates this error message. It has
nothing to do with the question whether a record has a name or not.
But it is a sanity check that the record you want to display is
actually in the database. 

Apparently the record was generated by a call of
bbdb-mua-auto-update which really uses bbdb-mua-update-records for
this. If this fails for one new record, it should fail for any new
record you want to create.

Can you provide a more coplete recipe to reproduce this?