Re: Gnus hangs

["Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

>> Any advice on how to diagnose this?
>
> The only thing I can think of is something that many of us have
> encountered, which is that long-running connections die or get cut off,
> and Gnus doesn't know it. That can lead to timeouts/hangs when you try
> to re-use a zombie connection.
>
> The nndraft message shouldn't be significant, it's just the last
> operation to successfully complete before the hang began.
>
> "Once every five g's" sounds a little odd for this problem, because most
> of us have it after some network reconnection (after wake from suspend,
> after VPN on/off, etc), but it's the only thing I can think of.
>
> When I suspect I'm going to have the problem, I hit "z" for
> `gnus-group-suspend'. That closes all the servers, so the next refresh
> re-establishes connections.
>
> `gnus-group-suspend' is a little heavy-duty for this: all you'd really
> need is:
>
> (progn
>   (gnus-offer-save-summaries)
>   (dolist (elem gnus-opened-servers)
>     (gnus-close-server (car elem))
>     (setcar (cdr elem) 'closed)))

Thanks. I think that the problem sometimes happens when Gnus starts,
which would rule out your hypothesis, but I'm not 100% sure. I'll use
your trick before updating the summary buffer and see if it avoids the
hang.