From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64472 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Can't open offline nnimap groups Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:49:54 +0200 Message-ID: <87bqicqq7h.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> References: <87fy7pzvsu.fsf@bang.priv.no> <87bqidzvhz.fsf@bang.priv.no> <87hcs5vm1c.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> <87zm5xyba4.fsf@bang.priv.no> <87slbpu04t.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> <87mz1xy4mi.fsf@bang.priv.no> <87k5x1tvuu.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> <87ejn9xo88.fsf@bang.priv.no> <87648kxwkw.fsf@bang.priv.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175165488 29746 80.91.229.12 (29 Mar 2007 10:51:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:51:28 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M12996@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Mar 29 12:51:20 2007 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 4.50) id 1HWsDr-0006gi-6u for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:51:15 +0200 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 1HWsCo-000174-TC; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:50:10 -0500 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 1HWsCn-00016j-D0 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:50:09 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HWsCh-000241-ET for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:50:09 -0500 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net ([217.13.230.178] helo=yxa.extundo.com) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1HWsCf-0006B6-00 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:50:01 +0200 Original-Received: from mocca.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge3) with ESMTP id l2TAnsUL007185 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:49:55 +0200 OpenPGP: id=B565716F; url=http://josefsson.org/key.txt Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Hashcash: 1:22:070329:ding@gnus.org::TWzrR/xDDaDdOWj8:9z9+ In-Reply-To: <87648kxwkw.fsf@bang.priv.no> (Steinar Bang's message of "Thu\, 29 Mar 2007 10\:50\:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=4.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50, FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=ham version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on yxa-iv X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.2, clamav-milter version 0.88.2 on yxa.extundo.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Score: -2.2 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64472 Archived-At: Steinar Bang writes: >>>>>> Dave Goldberg : > >> Does gnus-agent-regenerate do anything useful? It's done so for me >> when my overview files get whacked but I've never run into the >> problem you're seeing. > > I thought about doing it, but when Simon didn't suggest it I figured > it might be risky...:-) It might work, although personally I find it easier to just wipe out the entire agent directory and start from scratch when something goes wrong. If that would happen often enough, I would start to debug it, but for me this hasn't happened in a long time now. Some problems might be related to corrupted files -- sometimes when I quit gnus, it will not really quit due to some reason (typically a server don't want to close, possibly due to lost network connections), and if I then accidentally press 's' my .newsrc.eld can be corrupt, and I suspect some agent files might become corrupt too.