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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