Bug with reading news on foreign servers

Bug with reading news on foreign servers

[Stefan Waldherr]

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Hi,

whenever I start XEmacs and gnus from scratch and select a foreign news group,
e.g.,

      *:  nntp+ssh-rhino:de.comp.office-pakete.staroffice                  (5)

I get the attached error. Oddly, when I try to read the same newsgroup again,
it works just fine. Anyone else observe this phenomenon?

cu
Stefan.


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Re: Bug with reading news on foreign servers

[Jan Vroonhof]

Stefan Waldherr <swa@cs.cmu.edu> writes:

> 
> I get the attached error. Oddly, when I try to read the same newsgroup again,
> it works just fine. Anyone else observe this phenomenon?

Yes. I have seen it for a long time. However I have never been able to 
come op with a consistent bug report since it very difficult to find
out what caused it exactly. However most of my backtraces have a
"sort" near the top and Lars has mentioned once that sort is evil.

Jan

Re: Bug with reading news on foreign servers

[Stefan Waldherr]

>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch> writes:

  Jan> Yes. I have seen it for a long time. However I have never been able to
  Jan> come op with a consistent bug report since it very difficult to find
  Jan> out what caused it exactly. However most of my backtraces have a "sort"
  Jan> near the top and Lars has mentioned once that sort is evil.

Geesh, and I thought I was the only one ;) 

One way, that I can reproduce the bug is this; start XEmacs, start gnus and
enter a foreign group (I use ssh in this case). Voila, there it is.

You may want to send Lars your *Backtrace* since he couldn't find the problem
yet. To do that, start XEmacs, start gnus, (load "gnus-sum.el"), (setq
debug-on-error t) and enter the foreign group.

cu
Stefan.
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