Re: Error when calling nnml-generate-nov-databases

Re: Error when calling nnml-generate-nov-databases

[Reiner Steib]

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On Fri, Jan 27 2006, Christoph Conrad wrote:

> No Gnus v0.4
> GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
>  of 2006-01-27 on brabbelbox
> 200 news.online.de InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.3.5 ready (posting ok).
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (range-error "truncate" 1131214865.0)
>   format("%s %d %d y\n" "trash\\.cur" 1131214865.0 1131214599.0)
>   nnmail-generate-active((("trash.cur" (1131214599.0 . 1131214865.0))
>     ("Von-Uni" (617 . 741)) [...]))
>   nnmail-save-active((("trash.cur" (1131214599.0 . 1131214865.0))
>     ("Von-Uni" (617 . 741)) [...] ("bogus" (2566 . 2848)))
>     "/home/cc/Mail/active")
>   nnml-generate-nov-databases-1("/home/cc/Mail/trash/cur"
>     ("/home/cc/Mail/trash/" "/home/cc/Mail/"))
>   nnml-generate-nov-databases-1("/home/cc/Mail/trash"
>     ("/home/cc/Mail/")) nnml-generate-nov-databases-1("/home/cc/Mail/"
>     nil t) nnml-generate-nov-databases("")
> call-interactively(nnml-generate-nov-databases)
> execute-extended-command(nil)
> call-interactively(execute-extended-command)

Hm, 1131214865.0 is larger than `most-positive-fixnum' (the largest
value that is representable in a Lisp integer) on your machine:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
ELISP> system-configuration
"i686-pc-linux-gnu"
ELISP> most-positive-fixnum
268435455
ELISP> (with-temp-buffer
	 (require 'nnmail)
	 (nnmail-generate-active '(("trash.cur" (1131214599.0 . 1131214865.0))
				   ("Von-Uni" (617 . 741)) ))
	 (buffer-string))
*** Eval error ***  Arithmetic range error: "truncate", 1131214865.0
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
ELISP> system-configuration
"x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
ELISP> most-positive-fixnum
1152921504606846975
ELISP> (with-temp-buffer
	 (require 'nnmail)
	 (nnmail-generate-active '(("trash.cur" (1131214599.0 . 1131214865.0))
				   ("Von-Uni" (617 . 741)) ))
	 (buffer-string))
"trash.cur 1131214865 1131214599 y\nVon-Uni 741 617 y\n"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Could you investigate where the strange article counts in "trash.cur"
comes from?

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: Error when calling nnml-generate-nov-databases

[Christoph Conrad]

Hello Reiner,

> Could you investigate where the strange article counts in "trash.cur"
> comes from?

In the meantime i deleted the article to use gnus further on.

Best wishes,
 Christoph