From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/77206 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nntp marks getting reset all the time Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:32:08 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <8762saq0t3.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87y6570wne.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87sjvezwx4.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298472037 31221 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2011 14:40:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:40:37 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M25538@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Feb 23 15:40:29 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PsFtE-00008Q-Bq for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:40:28 +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 1PsFsw-0003gb-4t; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:40:10 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PsFsu-0003gD-9Y for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:40:08 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PsFst-0003i9-Cn for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:40:08 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PsFss-0000Ny-Kq for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:40:06 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PsFsr-0008O4-UT for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:40:05 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:40:05 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:40:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MMNi/UL8dJbF7DhPAJJummsgm0g= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:77206 Archived-At: On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:45:59 +0100 Steinar Bang wrote: >>>>>> Ted Zlatanov : >> On nntp my marks are getting reset semi-randomly to older values. Old >> `d' read messages show up in the summary buffer again. It's very >> annoying. I've been coping by saving the marks with gnus-sync, but >> don't know what I should be bisecting or debugging because it only >> happens occasionally. SB> The times I've seen this have been early in the phase of starting to SB> use gnus-sync on a group. When I have gnus-sync'd for a while things SB> have been stable, or at least: seemingly stable. SB> But when I "lost" gnus-sync during the .authinfo changing around last SB> week, I've lost read marks from back to the time when I first started SB> gnus-sync'ing. SB> The marks that are left are, I think, those that have been set on SB> exactly that gnus, and residing in that gnus' .newsrc.eld. SB> I've been stepping through the gnus-sync merge logic, but that didn't SB> make me any wiser. What I understood seemed to operate as expected to SB> me, if I remember correctly (it's been a while). Yeah, this is something screwy with Gnus itself. Ted