Re: gmane "Server Closed Connection" problem on Vista

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:29:37 +0200 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote: 

>>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:
>>>>>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:

>>>> How about another NNTP client?

>>> Yeah, I can try with Thunderbird.

>> Ok.  Right now I have a troublesome group, gmane.emacs.orgmode with
>> 4208 unread.  When I try opening that group, Gnus sometimes read some
>> hundred keys and then says "Server closed connection".  Sometimes it
>> goes straight to "Server closed connection".

SB> FWIW I tried on RHEL 4 with GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X
SB> toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2006-05-02 on hs20-bc1-7.build.redhat.com,
SB> and No Gnus v0.11 (CVS update from today).

SB> The gmane.emacs.orgmode was visited with 4234 unread articles, and it
SB> came up without a hitch.

SB> So, I'm guessing this is a Vista problem.  Or perhaps a Win32 emacs on
SB> Vista problem?

Strange.  It would be ideal if we could isolate the test case to be
outside of Gnus.  Can you debug the NNTP interaction and find the
command sequence that triggers the disconnect?  It should then be fairly
simple to test it outside of Gnus (for instance, with Perl using
Net::NNTP).

Ted