Re: Failure in latest emacs24

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org>]

Hi,

        I have bisected the master branch, and narrowed down the commit
 which is causing my issue with the new, two part nntpfetch process (the
 bisection came up with an unsurprising result). 


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[debian]_> git co master
[master]_> git bisect start
[master]_> git bisect bad
[master]_> git bisect good 42c401f62eaa8e5c4b6c320b83383bb39314948a

Bisecting: 93 revisions left to test after this (roughly 7 steps)
[243055baa2024146d993458dd1179701c4437e1b] Silence some compiler warnings.
[bisect/bad~49]__> git bisect bad

Bisecting: 42 revisions left to test after this (roughly 6 steps)
[90c5f2b56a9eb0dc36f60aa6779c67a84585c242] Merge changes from emacs-23 branch
[Safe~21^2]__> git bisect bad    

Bisecting: 25 revisions left to test after this (roughly 5 steps)
[a1ca882b0722cb9e36925f34e5208fead4aeb171] Fix erasure of modeline by erc-track.
[tags/EMACS_PRETEST_23_2_93~2]__> git bisect good

Bisecting: 12 revisions left to test after this (roughly 4 steps)
[24be4ab27fb30a36a2cf95869f1bfb63f1fcb8a1] gnus-art.el (article-transform-date): Fix infinite recursion.
[bisect/bad~11]1_> git bisect bad                

Bisecting: 6 revisions left to test after this (roughly 3 steps)
[68ff99f83f197f7e802679df79397eebc23471a4] nnimap.el (nnimap-wait-for-response): Wait for results in a more secure manner. gnus-art.el (article-update-date-lapsed): Try to avoid having point move around by not using save-window-excursion.  It seems to work...
[bisect/bad~5]__> git bisect bad                 

Bisecting: 2 revisions left to test after this (roughly 2 steps)
[6d091d11baeda60f45212a7ccbeca1eab554a705] gnus-art.el (article-make-date-line): Work for user-defined format.
[bisect/bad~3]__> git bisect good                

Bisecting: 0 revisions left to test after this (roughly 1 step)
[1be62c4ee667c31187a8eef276f12efcfa8de774] nntp.el (nntp-retrieve-group-data-early, nntp-finish-retrieve-group-infos): Implement the asynchronous data fetching functions.
[bisect/bad~1]__> git bisect bad

Bisecting: 0 revisions left to test after this (roughly 0 steps)
[32c6072cd818a9bb8f7d0cc86059d3e9b9663eee] gnus-art.el (article-make-date-line): Fix last change.
[bisect/bad~1]__> git bisect good   

1be62c4ee667c31187a8eef276f12efcfa8de774 is the first bad commit
commit 1be62c4ee667c31187a8eef276f12efcfa8de774
Author: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 31 03:35:09 2011 +0000

    nntp.el (nntp-retrieve-group-data-early, nntp-finish-retrieve-group-infos): Implement the asynchronous data fetching functions.

:040000 040000 39b0604828f1b2180197e6a5fcdcd4b99515f7c7
39a874c2056136a441142343378cc50d3f127d91 M      lisp
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        I'll file a bug, which would add in information about my
 environment and such.

        manoj
-- 
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