From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57990 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Weird infinite (?) loop when entering newsgroup Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 18:47:30 -0500 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <87k6xtnap9.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> References: <87zn81quz1.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <874qp0k721.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088293678 20490 80.91.224.253 (26 Jun 2004 23:47:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:47:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6531=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Jun 27 01:47:49 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BeMtg-0006Dg-00 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 01:47:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BeMtf-000413-04 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 18:47:47 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BeMta-00040w-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 18:47:42 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BeMtZ-0004IL-UR for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 18:47:41 -0500 Original-Received: from defaultvalue.org (dsl093-216-237.aus1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.216.237]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCEA33A0038 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 18:47:40 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from trouble.defaultvalue.org (omen.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.1]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86B663F44; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 18:47:39 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by trouble.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C3C8D410C0; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 18:47:30 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Kevin Greiner In-Reply-To: (Kevin Greiner's message of "Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:44:56 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57990 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57990 Kevin Greiner writes: > The problem is that your server sent some garbage that is now > confusing the agent. One, or more, of your article numbers is > currently so large that it overflows the emacs integer variable. > > Your fix is to edit the .overview file for the group having the > problem. The first number on each line is the article number. Look > for lines whose article numbers are not consistent with the rest of > the file. Most times when this problem has been reported, the article > number has been duplicated (that is, you have 123456123456 when the > correct number was 123456). Just delete the problem lines then save > the file. You should now be able to enter the group and, when you do, > the agent will re-fetch the headers that you just deleted. OK, I tried that using a regexp replace, and after removing all the 1234512345 style lines, I was able to enter the group successfully, but only once. The next time I tried to re-enter the group after that, the problem returned. In any case, thanks for the help. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4