From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/48051 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap hanging when checking mail Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 00:07:14 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039129871 21562 80.91.224.249 (5 Dec 2002 23:11:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:11:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18K59A-0005b3-00 for ; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 00:11:08 +0100 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 18K55u-0000Iq-00; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 17:07:46 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 05 Dec 2002 17:08:34 -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 RAA20647 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:08:17 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 9177 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2002 23:07:19 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 9172 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2002 23:07:18 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by gnus.org with SMTP; 5 Dec 2002 23:07:18 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB5N7F8b022618 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Fri, 6 Dec 2002 00:07:16 +0100 Original-To: "Nevin Kapur" Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Hashcash: 0:021205:nevin@jhu.edu:a8095078865a4beb X-Hashcash: 0:021205:ding@gnus.org:051356cd7b3338b1 In-Reply-To: ("Nevin Kapur"'s message of "Thu, 05 Dec 2002 15:06:43 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48051 "Nevin Kapur" writes: > Yesterday I moved a rather large hierarchy under IMAP control and every > since then 5 times out 6, when nnimap checks mail, it makes the > connection, then says > > nnimap: Checking mailboxes... > > and then just hangs. I've waited for hours but it never returns. In X, > pressing C-g does nothing and the only remedy is to kill the xemacs > process. In the terminal, hitting C-g a few times suspends (?) XEmacs, > following which it prompts me to Auto-save, then offers to Abort and > finally dumps core with the attached backtrace. > > The trace always seems to hang in process-send-string and the hang is > peculiar to XEmacs, I think because with indentical configuration, I don't > have this problem with Emacs. > > Would someone please advise the next course of action? I am totally > crippled right now without use of my beloved Gnus at home. I think reporting it to the XEmacs people, like you did, is the best way. It is difficult to debug or solve non-elisp problems in elisp. Meanwhile, maybe trying Emacs is a workaround. Frobbing `imap-log' and looking in *imap-log* might give hints if you want to edebug {nni,}imap.el further.