From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26677 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Toni Drabik Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Misterious article disappearances Date: 11 Nov 1999 21:49:17 +0100 Organization: None Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <7t11z9wwy7m.fsf@fly.srk.fer.hr> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163841 20681 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:30:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:30:41 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA22053 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:50:47 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAB06734; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:50:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:50:13 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA10894 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:50:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from fly.srk.fer.hr (tdrabik@fly.srk.fer.hr [161.53.70.130]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA22041 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:49:21 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from tdrabik@localhost) by fly.srk.fer.hr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA08977; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 21:49:18 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: Toni Original-Lines: 49 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070098 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26677 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26677 Back in September I noticed that some news articles are ``disappearing'' (well, not exactly disappearing, but more on that later) in totally random and unreproducible fashion. It happens for almost two months now and it starts to annoy the hell out of me. It usually goes like this: after pressing `g' in *Group* buffer, there are, for example, three articles in hr.comp.advocacy: 3: hr.comp.advocacy But, after entering that group, there are only *two* articles in *Summary* buffer. Exiting group (without reading those articles) changes the line in *Summary* buffer to: 2: hr.comp.advocacy Doing `C-u 3 g' on it, again gives *Summary* buffer with only two articles (the same two, that are shown upon first entering). However, if I restart Gnus and then do `C-u 3 g' on offending group, I get *Summary* with *three* (!!) articles -- two of them are those I have already seen on previous attempts and the third one is a ``new'' one. Main problem in all this is that I'm unable to reproduce the problem. It happens at random, in random and completely unrelated groups (please note that only *news*groups are affected) -- and I cannot determine what's the reason for it. :-( To avoid possibility that those ``disappearances'' are caused by scoring, I turned off my scoring completely (and moved my score files to another place). My first thought was that something is wrong with my news server (which wouldn't be surprising at all), but people with other news readers have no complaints. And there is the fact that restarting Gnus obviously ``fixes'' the problem, for a short time at least. I also examined my setup, but I couldn't find anything that could be cause of this strange behavior. I think that those disappearances happen more often in last few days, but that may be my overactive imagination. If all of this sounds like a late Halloween story -- I'm sorry, but it really happens. :-( Did anyone else noticed such (mis)behavior? Any suggestions about it? -- Toni Drabik Warning: This article may be fatal if swallowed.