From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66599 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: 23.0.60; File corruption when Gnus reads .overview Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:00:27 +0100 Message-ID: <87k5jm5x1g.fsf@escher.local.home> References: <87y78uu7lz.fsf@escher.local.home> <87r6edfz0u.fsf@escher.local.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206741646 7020 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2008 22:00:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:00:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 28 23:01:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JfMdP-00026A-VY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:01:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JfMco-0004Fg-Fk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:00:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JfMcj-0004Eo-4C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:00:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JfMch-0004EB-JC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:00:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JfMch-0004E8-Cs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:00:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JfMcg-0004uB-PI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:00:31 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 28 Mar 2008 22:00:28 -0000 Original-Received: from i5387EECE.versanet.de (EHLO escher.local.home) [83.135.238.206] by mail.gmx.net (mp023) with SMTP; 28 Mar 2008 23:00:28 +0100 X-Authenticated: #20778731 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+fDgNni4Gf2g9ilLIFwH0x8vF98M5TaZ4y18UMVC 6OVyYmDokmINOy Original-Received: by escher.local.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5234A1D0B83; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:00:27 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Reiner Steib's message of "Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:57:07 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:93719 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:21743 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:66599 Archived-At: On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:57:07 +0100 Reiner Steib wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14 2008, Stephen Berman wrote: > >> With my current build (GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ >> Version 2.12.0) of 2008-03-13 on escher), the file corruption has >> disappeared, but Gnus still has a problem with the .overview file: when >> I open the gmane.emacs.help group, all my marks are gone except the one >> corresponding to the entry in the .overview file that occurs earlier >> than the first entry containing the problematic non-ascii characters. >> In other words, it appears that Gnus is not processing the .overview >> file after it reads the problematic non-ascii characters. I would be >> grateful if a Gnus hacker could look into this, as I cannot usefully >> read gmane.emacs.help with Gnus from the current trunk. > > It's the agent cache overview, right? I don't use the agent, so I'm > not familiar with it, but IIRC it's no problem to delete the corrupt > overview file. Does this help? This does not help: after deleting the .overview file from News/agent/nntp/news.gmane.org/gmane/emacs/help (but retaining the corresponding .agentview file), all marked (ticked) articles, as well as all seen but unread articles, are missing from the summary buffer. However, the good news is that bug has apparently been fixed in the mean time: I updated from the trunk today and after opening gmane.emacs.help with Gnus all the marks were intact, and remained so after closing and reopening. This is with the previous 14 MB .overview file reinstated. (I was sent an email on March 19 from the testbed Emacs bugtracker saying that Stefan Monnier had closed the bug, but it didn't give details and I cannot tell from the change logs which change contains the fix (I was away when the email was sent and wasn't able to update until today).) Steve Berman