From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41927 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karra Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Marks woes on upgrade from oort 0.03 -> 0.04. Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 05:46:52 +0530 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87y9j32jik.fsf@cs.utah.edu> References: <87666jpu0h.fsf@cs.utah.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177246 8690 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:14:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:14:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 2990 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2002 03:59:22 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 13 Jan 2002 03:59:22 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16PbmK-0005Ud-00; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 21:57:52 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 12 Jan 2002 21:57:43 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA08269 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 21:57:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 2975 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2002 03:57:36 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 2970 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2002 03:57:35 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO Gowron) (mail@210.214.131.127) by gnus.org with SMTP; 13 Jan 2002 03:57:35 -0000 Original-Received: from karra by Gowron with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16PYLT-0000Sd-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 05:47:55 +0530 Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Original-Lines: 51 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41927 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41927 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Karra writes: > >> (a) I installed 0.04 and started emacs. I started gnus with M-x >> gnus-unpluged RET >> (b) A gory sight greeted me --- a gazillion unread messages. >> (c) I thought for a second and quickly pressed 'q' to quit from. >> (d) After a few deep breaths, I did the M-x gnus-unplugged RET >> routine, and lo and behold!! things were as they should have >> been. >> (e) I repeated the above steps (from starting emacs) to confirm this >> behaviour. > > So the first time you start Gnus within an Emacs session, all articles > in all nnml groups become unread? > >> (g) I restarted Emacs and did (setq nnml-marks-is-evil t) and life >> appeared normal. >> >> Is there a fix for this in CVS? > > I'd suggest upgrading at least to 0.05 to see whether that helps. I upgraded to latest CVS and tried again. The problem, as stated, persisted. The actual problem turned out to be the presence of some "wrong" .marks file that got generated sometime... I deleted all .marks files and restarted Gnus. This solved the problem. This delete-the-marks-file-and-restart routine also worked with oort-0.04... How about inserting the following into the manual? --- gnus.texi.old Sun Jan 13 05:36:43 2002 +++ gnus.texi Sun Jan 13 05:42:19 2002 @@ -13688,6 +13688,10 @@ to restore the group (after restoring the backup into the nnml directory). +If for some reason you believe your @file{.marks} files are screwed +up, you can just delete them all. Gnus will then correctly regenerate +them next time it starts. + Virtual server settings: @table @code -- "Have you ever fought an IDEA, Picard?" -- Gowron, Star Trek TNG.