Re: "Async fetch" failing in current CVS

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

Dan McGuirk <mcguirk@incompleteness.net> writes:

> With the current CVS version of Gnus, when trying to open an article
> I'll often get the message "Waiting for async fetch" in the
> minibuffer, and then have Gnus hang.  This usually happens on the
> second article I try to open after opening a given newsgroup.
> Eventually I can break out of this with C-g, and usually I can
> ultimately get the article to come up, but I seem to have to view some
> other articles first.

If you (setq gnus-asynchronous nil) and enter a group and view the
first two articles rapidly, does it hang too?  I suspect the server
might be slow.

You can try (setq nntp-record-commands t) to see what Gnus is sending,
and then use "telnet news nntp" or whatever to send commands manually
to see if it really is the server hanging.

(In earlier Gnuses asynchronous fetching was accidently (?) disabled
by default.)