gnus: Fails on authenticated server after some timeout

gnus: Fails on authenticated server after some timeout

[Manoj Srivastava]

Gnus v5.10.3
GNU Emacs 21.3.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2003-04-24 on raven, modified by Debian
200 news.vmware.com InterNetNews NNRP server INN 1.7.2 08-Dec-1997 ready (posting ok).

Hi,

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        This bug was reported by a Debian user


My news server recently started requiring authentication information.
Now after some time of inactivity, "g" in the group buffer fails to
detect new messages.  I have to close the server manually to get it to
work again for a while.

Part of the output of strace -e read,write,connect while this happens
reads:

write(10, "LIST ACTIVE rec.games.int-fictio"..., 35) = 35
write(10, "LIST ACTIVE rec.arts.int-fiction"..., 34) = 34
write(10, "LIST ACTIVE comp.os.linux.announ"..., 36) = 36
--- SIGIO (I/O possible) @ 0 (0) ---
read(7, "\3\36PX\255*\331\275\212\0\0\0\7\1`\1\0\0\0\0q\3\352\1"..., 32) = 32
read(8, "480 Authentication required for "..., 512) = 41
read(8, 0x94908e8, 512)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
read(8, 0x94908e8, 512)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
read(8, 0x94908e8, 512)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
read(8, 0x94908e8, 512)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
read(8, "480 Authentication required for "..., 512) = 41
read(8, 0x94908e8, 512)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
read(8, 0x94908e8, 512)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
read(8, 0x94908e8, 512)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
read(8, 0x94908e8, 512)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
read(8, "480 Authentication required for "..., 512) = 41
read(8, 0x94908e8, 512)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
read(8, 0x94908e8, 512)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
read(8, 0x94908e8, 512)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
read(8, 0x94908e8, 512)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
(and it doesn't show any new connection being made earlier).


	manoj
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