Re: error entering cvs gnus

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Laura Conrad <lconrad@laymusic.org> writes:

> The error message may have been correct, but gnus should have
> recovered from it and let me in anyway.  My complaint was that I
> couldn't run gnus at all.

I see.  Please try attached patch, it will ask you if Gnus should
continue even if the nnml directory is FUBAR.

> This isn't a group that mail gets sorted into; it's the archive group
> that mail from another group gets expired into.  So I don't see why
> gnus should be trying to write to it on entry.

Well, it tries to create the .marks file to make it possible to
e.g. backup the nnml server independently of .newsrc.eld.  The group
is only written to once; when you don't have a .marks file and nnml is
bootstrapping it for you.

2001-08-19  Simon Josefsson  <jas@extundo.com>

	* nnml.el (nnml-save-marks): If we can't write to marks file, ask
	user whether to continue or not.

--- nnml.el.~6.12.~	Sun Aug 19 11:38:42 2001
+++ nnml.el	Sun Aug 19 13:46:14 2001
@@ -908,11 +908,16 @@
   (let ((file-name-coding-system nnmail-pathname-coding-system)
 	(file (expand-file-name nnml-marks-file-name
 				(nnmail-group-pathname group nnml-directory))))
+    (condition-case err
+	(progn
     (nnml-possibly-create-directory group)
     (with-temp-file file
       (erase-buffer)
       (princ nnml-marks (current-buffer))
-      (insert "\n"))))
+	    (insert "\n")))
+      (error (or (gnus-yes-or-no-p
+		  (format "Could not write to %s (%s).  Continue? " file err))
+		 (error "Cannot write to %s (%s)" err))))))
 
 (defun nnml-open-marks (group server)
   (let ((file (expand-file-name