From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/82507 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: difficulties finding some messages Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:08:08 +0800 Message-ID: <8762569u5z.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87zk2wxzno.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87pq3rabdd.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353032223 19621 80.91.229.3 (16 Nov 2012 02:17:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:17:03 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30773@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Nov 16 03:17:14 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TZBUT-0002xJ-Um for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:17:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1TZBTH-0008WE-7f; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:15:55 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1TZBIG-0008TE-EG for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:04:32 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TZBIE-0005tJ-Qj for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:04:31 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TZBIC-0004NY-QI for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:04:28 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TZBIK-00018o-AP for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:04:36 +0100 Original-Received: from 114.250.131.150 ([114.250.131.150]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:04:36 +0100 Original-Received: from eric by 114.250.131.150 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:04:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 44 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 114.250.131.150 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KnEE1JWu2X1/NWIeaXBAriWKBfs= X-Spam-Score: -0.9 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:82507 Archived-At: Figured it out -- the agent's version of the group had somehow gotten out of sync with the group itself. Un-agenting my nnml server, deleting the agent's cache, and then turning it back on solved the problem. So many things to keep in lockstep... Eric Abrahamsen writes: > Ugh, that group is totally borked. Incoming mail is split into the > correct directory and written to disk, but doesn't appear in the group > and can't be accessed from within gnus. What can I do to just start over > with this group? > > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> I'm having a weird experience trying to get gnus to display some >> messages in nnml. My present main group is "nnml:mail.misc_2012", and if >> I ask to enter it, gnus tells me I can see a grand total of 14,394 >> articles. If I say okay, it takes a while, and then produces a summary >> buffer with 11,207 lines in it. Filtering on authors, for instance, >> omits some messages that I know are in the group, because I can go to >> them by article number, and there they are -- clearly messages that >> should have been shown by the author filter. >> >> The weirdness extends to nnir/namazu. If I conduct a namazu search on >> the command line for a particular author, I get nine results. If I do >> that exact same search via GG in the *Group* buffer, I get five of those >> nine results, plus an extra one that has nothing to do with my search >> criteria, and didn't appear on the command line. Looking at the command >> line results, I can use "j" in the summary buffer to jump to the correct >> message, but gnus won't show me those messages otherwise. >> >> What the heck is going on here? Why so many different types of results? >> Running "wc -l" in the "misc_2012" directory shows me 14,349, and this >> is also the number that appears in the "active" file. 14,394 is the >> number in my .newsrc.eld file, and what I'm offered when I ask to see >> all messages. 11,207 is apparently what I get when I see "all" messages. >> >> Does anyone know what might be going on? Is there some sort of "reset" >> option that will re-sync all the appropriate numbers? >> >> Thanks, >> Eric