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From: ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>
Subject: Re: (wrong-type-argument processp nil)
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 10:18:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2npu3mh9uu.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ae269y5r.fsf@cachemir.echo-net.net> (Roland Mas's message of "Sun, 15 Jul 2001 14:25:52 +0200")

Roland Mas <mas@echo.fr> writes:

> Hello again,
>
> I've come across this error message recently (ie. maybe for a month or
> so).  It happens when I gnus-get-new-news, possibly after a while.  It
> seems the socket dies (firewall might be involved in it), and Gnus
> fails to handle it correctly.  Here comes the backtrace (I'm unable to
> understand what parts of it are relevant, so I paste it all).
>
>   Um.  Well, Gnus won't let me post it (control characters in the
> message).  I'll just strip the second line (byte-code...) and try
> again. 
>
> Signaling: (wrong-type-argument processp nil)
>   process-buffer(nil)
>   byte-code([STRIPPED HERE BY ME])
>   nntp-retrieve-groups(("fr.soc.culture.japon"

It is because timeout kills the process. I've installed a change in
the CVS, which handles this error.

ShengHuo



      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-03 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-15 12:25 Roland Mas
2001-07-15 18:35 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-07-18 16:45 ` Rupa Schomaker
2001-07-20 12:44   ` Henrik Enberg
2002-02-03 15:18 ` ShengHuo ZHU [this message]

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