From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Cannot read partial active file from nntp server.
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:08:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4yq8qan.fsf@tsdh.uni-koblenz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877h0iiw55.fsf@gmail.com> (Antoine Levitt's message of "Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:52:06 +0100")
Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com> writes:
> 23/01/12 10:29, Tassilo Horn
>> Hi all,
>>
>> since about two weeks or so, I frequently get this message when hitting
>> `g' in *Group*. Uni is my universities nntp server.
>>
>> Warning: Refusing to do retrieval from Uni because a retrieval is already happening
>> Cannot read partial active file from nntp server.
>>
>> When I close and reopen the server the message disappeares for some
>> time. How can I debug what's wrong?
>>
>> It might be related to the fact that sometimes Gnus freezes while
>> fetching news during "nnimap read XXk" and I have to interrupt using
>> C-g, althougt that always happens with nnimap...
>>
>> Bye,
>> Tassilo
>
> I also get similar symptoms. I will try to get a proper backtrace next time.
Indeed, it seems to be caused by interrupting a frozen
`gnus-group-get-new-news' call using C-g. I've tried to get a backtrace
using `toggle-debug-on-error', but that doesn't put me in the debugger.
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-23 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-23 9:29 Tassilo Horn
2012-01-23 9:52 ` Antoine Levitt
2012-01-23 14:08 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2012-01-23 15:02 ` Antoine Levitt
2012-01-27 17:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-29 18:49 ` Tassilo Horn
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