From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33437 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ShengHuo ZHU Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: xemacs hang while gnus is trying to cope with flakey server Date: 20 Nov 2000 08:20:00 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <2nofzawzjz.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035169544 25132 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:05:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:05:44 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC1D9D049A for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:21:32 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAB16579; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 07:21:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 20 Nov 2000 07:19:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA11525 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 07:19:17 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from zsh.yi.org (d185fc155.rochester.rr.com [24.95.193.85]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 417ADD049A for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:19:43 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from zsh@localhost) by zsh.yi.org (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eAKDK1M06482; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:20:01 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: ZSH X-Face: 'IF:e51ib'Qbl^(}l^&4-J`'P!@[4~O|&k#:@Gld#b/]oMq&`&FVY._3+b`mzp~Jeve~/#/ ERD!OTe<86UhyN=l`mrPY)M7_}`Ktt\K+58Z!hu7>qU,i.N7TotU[FYE(f1;}`g2xj!u*l`^&=Q!g{ *q|ddto|nkt"$r,K$[)"|6,elPH= GJ6Q In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33437 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33437 Laura Conrad writes: > I'm finding that gnus is dealing badly with my new isp's newsserver. > I think the right answer is to start using leafnode and let it just > give up when it can't cope without making me wait for it in real > time. But before I do that, I'm willing to do any debugging people > want to suggest, although it will probably behave fine if I'm waiting > to trap it somehow. > > The usual symptom is that gnus takes forever to come back when I say > "g", and then when I ^g out of it, it does deny the server, but also > seems to have forgotten the marks in all of the groups in that server. > > Last night, however, even ^G didn't get out of the loop, and I got > this backtrace when I killed the xemacs: > > Lisp backtrace follows: > > # (unwind-protect ...) > open-network-stream-internal("nntpd" # "news-east.speakeasy.net" "nntp") You need a timeout for nntp-open-connection, but nntp-connection-timeout does not work for open-network-stream because in both Emacs 20 and XEmacs 21 the timer is ignored when connecting. Maybe it works for an external program (for example, (setq nntp-open-connection-function 'nntp-open-telnet)). I never try it. ShengHuo