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From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Crash on startup with recent gnus-agent.el patch
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 08:29:33 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4m8xojccrm.fsf@jpl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r72bkht4.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>

Kevin, could you please fix this problem in a proper way?

>>>>> In <87r72bkht4.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

>> The gmane.ietf.techspec group was created recently, wasn't it?

> No, not really, the group didn't exist in the local Agent cache.  Not
> all groups will exist locally, so code cannot assume they can access
> the agent cache for all groups (or it should create the directory when
> it needs it).

I see.

>> A workaround I tried is to remove an entry of the group in question
>> from the ~/.newsrc.eld file.

> It happened to a lot of groups for me, so it isn't a good workaround.
> Reverting to 7.57 solves it though.

Here's another workaround, which should do the trick even if
there're a lot of such groups.

(defadvice gnus-cache-file-contents (around check-file-existence activate)
  "Do nothing unless FILE exists."
  (when (file-exists-p (ad-get-arg 0))
    ad-do-it))



      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-30 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-30  8:07 Simon Josefsson
2006-05-30  8:34 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2006-05-30  9:01   ` Simon Josefsson
2006-05-30 12:37     ` gdt
2006-05-30 23:29     ` Katsumi Yamaoka [this message]

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