Re: Archive group broken since very recently

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

On Thursday 16 September 2010 03:21:49 Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:

> > archive+nnml+archive:sent-postings... 20100915T175512.137> Opening
> > nnml server on archive+nnml+archive:sent-postings...done
> > Sending...done
> 
> I got:
> 
> Sending...
> Sending news via NewsServer using nntp...
> 20100916T094357.843> Opening nnml server on archive...
> 20100916T094357.844> Opening nnml server on archive...done
>                                             ^^^^^^^
> Wrote /home/yamaoka/News/archive/sent-news/12
> Sending...done
> 
> Note that the server name appearing here should be the cadr of
> gnus-message-archive-method, i.e. "archive".

,----[ C-h v gnus-message-archive-method RET ]
| gnus-message-archive-method is a variable defined in `gnus.el'.
| Its value is 
| (nnml "archive"
| 	  (nnml-inhibit-expiry t)
| 	  (nnml-get-new-mail nil)
| 	  (nnml-directory "/home/horn/.gnus.d/News/archive")
| 	  (nnml-active-file "/home/horn/.gnus.d/News/archive/active"))
`----

Hm, the `cadr' is "archive" here, too.

> > But I cannot enter the archive group (nnml+archive:sent-postings)
> > anymore.  RET RET on it gives:
> 
> [...]
> 
> This looks like the file
> /home/horn/.gnus.d/News/archive/sent-postings/.overview is missing.

Nope, the file is there and looks correct (762 overview lines).

> This may help:
> 
> M-x nnml-generate-nov-databases-directory RET
> ~/.gnus.d/News/archive/sent-postings RET

I still can't enter the group.

> > And to make things even more strange, there are now several archive
> > servers in the server buffer!
> > 
> >      {nnml:archive} (opened)
> >      {nnml:archive} (opened)
> >      {nnml:archive+nnml+archive:sent-postings} (opened)
> >      {nntp:Uni} (opened) (agent)
> >      {nntp:Gmane} (opened) (agent)
> >      {nntp:Eclipse} (opened) (agent)
> 
> [...]
> 
> IIUC the archive server should be only one.

Hm, right now I have

     {nnml:archive} (opened)
     {nnml:archive+nnml+archive:sent-messages-2008} (opened)
     {nnml:archive+nnml+archive:sent-postings} (opened)
     {nntp:Uni} (opened) (agent)
     {nntp:Gmane} (opened) (agent)
     {nntp:Eclipse} (opened) (agent)

The archive server contains the groups sent-messages-2008 and
sent-postings.  It seems server 2 and 3 were created when I tried to
enter the respective groups...

>  How about trying removal of useless servers?  To do that for example:
> 
> (let (archive)
>   (while (setq archive (assoc "archive" gnus-server-alist))
>     (setq gnus-server-alist (delq archive gnus-server-alist)))
>   (push (cons "archive" gnus-message-archive-method)
> 	gnus-server-alist))
> 
> This should be done while Gnus is running.

Did that, and afterwards I had this:

,----[ C-h v gnus-server-alist RET ]
| gnus-server-alist is a variable defined in `gnus.el'.
| Its value is 
| (("archive" nnml "archive"
|   (nnml-inhibit-expiry t)
|   (nnml-get-new-mail nil)
|   (nnml-directory "/home/horn/.gnus.d/News/archive")
|   (nnml-active-file "/home/horn/.gnus.d/News/archive/active")))
`----

Killing the *Server* buffer and entering it again with ^ still will show
the two strange servers...

The I restarted gnus, and that's the initial value.  After startup,
*Server* only shows one archive.  Then I try entering sent-postings and
enter *Server* again, and boom, there's

  {nnml:archive+nnml+archive:sent-postings} (opened)

But the value of gnus-server-alist has not changed...

Bye,
Tassilo