From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79408 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: how to debug Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:03:04 +0200 Organization: my virtual residence Message-ID: <87tyay5e1j.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> References: <87oc166h9p.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <878vsa60r2.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87vcvexsln.fsf@kepler.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310051019 23806 80.91.229.12 (7 Jul 2011 15:03:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 15:03:39 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27704@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jul 07 17:03:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qeq74-0004d8-NR for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:03:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Qeq6g-0000LJ-Ds; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:03:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Qeq6e-0000Kz-FF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:03:08 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Qeq6c-0000o7-Uf for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:03:08 -0500 Original-Received: from static.103.179.46.78.clients.your-server.de ([78.46.179.103] helo=static.73.179.46.78.clients.your-server.de) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qeq6b-0001CE-CE for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:03:05 +0200 Original-Received: from lee by yun.yagibdah.de with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Qeq6a-0000op-O0 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:03:04 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87vcvexsln.fsf@kepler.lan> (Leonidas Tsampros's message of "Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:57:59 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: 0.1 (/) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin (3.3.1 2010-03-16) analysis follows Bayesian score: 0.0000 Ham tokens: 0.000-1691--6840h-0s--0d--H*UA:Emacs, 0.000-1523--6161h-0s--0d--H*u:Emacs, 0.000-1411--5707h-0s--0d--H*UA:Gnus, 0.000-1410--5706h-0s--0d--H*u:Gnus, 0.000-1353--5473h-0s--0d--H*u:linux Spam tokens: 0.998-1--0h-7s--0d--HX-Spam-Relays-External:sk:static., 0.998-1--0h-7s--0d--H*RU:sk:static., 0.966-5772--1379h-53320s--0d--H*r:quimby.gnus.org, 0.911-187--216h-3003s--0d--H*r:sk:static., 0.907-3116--4068h-53567s--0d--HX-Spam-Relays-External:quimby.gnus.org Autolearn status: no -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 2.0 HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR Relay HELO'd using suspicious hostname (IP addr 1) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79408 Archived-At: Leonidas Tsampros writes: > Tassilo Horn writes: >> lee writes: > > [...] >>> with emacs 24 from tonight, gnus sometimes keeps emacs busy >>> indefinitely when checking for new news (pressing `g' in the group >>> buffer). I'm getting messages like: > > [...] >>> >>> When I press Ctrl-g, emacs isn't busy anymore. I can even check for >>> news again, and it eventually works fine. >> >> I can observe a similar behavior since month. Usually, the last output >> is "nnimap read 78k" and then it stalls until I hit C-g. After that, >> all works fine again. > > I can confirm this too! Using yesterday's emacs 24, and a pop3 mail > source I can confirm the exact same behaviour. It randomly stays stuck > while reading mail from the pop3 server. Pressing C-g and g to get the > news again eventually works fine with no bad side effects. > > Setting debug-on-quit to t, I caught this but it's probably not enough: > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (quit) > pop3-accept-process-output(#) > pop3-wait-for-messages(# 22 175976) > pop3-send-streaming-command(# "RETR" 22 175976) > pop3-movemail("~/.emacs-mail-crash-box") > mail-source-fetch-pop((pop :server "mail.popserver.com" :user > "ltsampros" :password "password") #[(file orig-file) "\303\304\305 > [...] Do you have any nntp servers in use? It looks as if this problem comes up when some sort of authentication is involved, as is with Tassilos IMAP, your POP3 and one of my nntp servers. Can just remove the nntp server from my select methods without any bad effects to see if the problem is still there without it?