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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Help! "Can't select group"
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:03:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gzlzbtz.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2booy0xad.fsf@boostpro.com> (Dave Abrahams's message of "Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:49:30 -1000")

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:49:30 -1000 Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote: 

DA> on Tue Feb 14 2012, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi-AT-gnus.org> wrote:

>> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Something in my setup keeps getting corrupted, I think, but I can't tell
>>> what.  When I try to enter gmane.comp.file-systems.zero-install.devel, I
>>> get "Can't select group." 
>> 
>> This is probably fixed now in Ma Gnus.  It was due to buggy `unexist'
>> handling.

DA> It's still broken for me after an update from Git and an attempt to wipe
DA> out all information in my .newsrc, etc., that refers to the group.

Any chance that, like me, you are using gnus-sync or something else to
sync marks?  That could be pulling the unexist marks back until you
clean them *and* force an overwrite.

Try the following, adapted from `gnus-clean-old-newsrc' to clean
unconditionally and to tell you it's doing so.  You may want to adapt it
to just do your problematic NNTP groups.

#+begin_src lisp
;; Remove old `exist' marks from old nnimap groups.
(dolist (info (cdr gnus-newsrc-alist))
(let ((exist (assoc 'unexist (gnus-info-marks info))))
  (when exist
      (message "Cleaning unexist marks from group %s" (car info))
    (gnus-info-set-marks
     info (delete exist (gnus-info-marks info))))))
#+end_src

Ted



      reply	other threads:[~2012-02-17 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-14 20:18 Dave Abrahams
2012-02-14 23:32 ` Eric S Fraga
2012-02-15  9:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-15 11:07   ` Eric S Fraga
2012-02-16 17:17   ` Dave Abrahams
2012-02-20  7:34     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-21  1:43       ` Dave Abrahams
2012-02-21 21:24         ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-02-17  6:49   ` Dave Abrahams
2012-02-17 16:03     ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]

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