From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75982 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Romosan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: gnus-slave broken Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:10:48 -0800 Message-ID: <8762tcwbhz.fsf@sycorax.lbl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296015121 8515 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2011 04:12:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:12:01 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24334@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jan 26 05:11:55 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 1PhwjZ-0001FW-1g for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:11:53 +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 1Phwig-0000gi-NW; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:10:58 -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 1Phwie-0000gV-55 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:10:56 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Phwia-0008Au-GA for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:10:53 -0600 Original-Received: from sycorax.lbl.gov ([128.3.11.121] ident=root) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PhwiZ-0000jO-1v for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:10:51 +0100 Original-Received: from sycorax.lbl.gov (romosan@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sycorax.lbl.gov (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-2) with ESMTP id p0Q4AmMD002142 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:10:48 -0800 Original-Received: (from romosan@localhost) by sycorax.lbl.gov (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p0Q4AmjL002139; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:10:48 -0800 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75982 Archived-At: for a while now gnus-slave hasn't been reading any changes made by the master gnus (read articles, new marks, etc) if the master is still running (at least with the nnml backend that i use, other backends might work, i didn't try). at that time i switched back to the gnus that comes with emacs 23 but today i got bored so i decided to do a git bisect. the first bad commit is: 7cce28b2d41e11d65102b8910ee9efc361b720ca: Add more changes related to the new methodology for requesting backend data. and it was made on Sept 4 (long time ago). a simple revert of the patch doesn't work, but i did a 'git checkout 7cce28b2d41e11d65102b8910ee9efc361b720ca' which gave me a bad gnus-slave and then i reverted the above commit and gnus-slave was once again able to read changes made by the master while the master was still running. i can try patches if somebody comes up with one. thanks. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. |