Re: mismatching summary buffer lines and article content?

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi,
>
> Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
>
>> Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
>>
>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I'm using the same hook.  Sometimes I have the feeling that it is
>>>>> also related to async pre-fetching, but I'm not sure -- sometimes the
>>>>> article content has been garbage looking like NOV lines.  That's when I
>>>>> restart Gnus and it is gone.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, I've seen the "article not matching up with the summary buffer"
>>>> thing in NNTP groups, too.  But I've been totally unable to reproduce
>>>> it, and I haven't seen any obvious bugs in the code, either, so it's
>>>> really difficult to fix.
>>>>
>>>> My main suspect is the async pre-fetch code, too, but there may also be
>>>> interactions between the Agent and the pre-fetch code.  Oy vey.
>>>>
>>>> Oh, I see that `gnus-asynchronous' defaults to nil?  Hm, I think it
>>>> should default to t...  Anyway, could you try setting that to nil and
>>>> see whether the problems disappear?  
>>>
>>> I can try -- however I have tried another thing for a while now that
>>> seems to have made the problem go away: removing
>>> gnus-agent-fetch-selected-article from gnus-select-article-hook.  I
>>> removed the hook on 28 February and I don't recall seeing the problem
>>> since then.
>>>
>>> I'll add the hook back now and see if I start to notice the problem
>>> again.  When I have seen the problem a few times, I'll disable
>>> gnus-asynchronous to see if that also independently fixes the problem.
>>
>> Re-enabling gnus-agent-fetch-selected-article made the problem come
>> back: I have seen the problem several times since the email above on
>> March 7th.
>>
>> I have now disabled gnus-asynchronous.
>
> I have ‘gnus-asynchronous’ to nil and I see the problem from time to
> time (on an nnimap group with the agent enabled.)

Do you have the gnus-agent-fetch-selected-article hook enabled in
gnus-select-article-hook?

/Simon