From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45608 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap against Cyrus imapd just stopped working Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 22:20:24 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87ofdg8xxt.fsf@doohan.bang.priv.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026246094 12925 127.0.0.1 (9 Jul 2002 20:21:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 20:21:34 +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 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17S1UM-0003MM-00 for ; Tue, 09 Jul 2002 22:21:34 +0200 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 17S1Tl-0007vI-00; Tue, 09 Jul 2002 15:20:57 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 09 Jul 2002 15:21:21 -0500 (CDT) 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 PAA25217 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:21:07 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 20402 invoked by alias); 9 Jul 2002 20:20:38 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20396 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2002 20:20:38 -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; 9 Jul 2002 20:20:38 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g69KKPwF026258; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 22:20:25 +0200 Original-To: Steinar Bang Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Hashcash: 020709:sb@dod.no:1ed22dbba83d03cc X-Hashcash: 020709:ding@gnus.org:b3f18263a8aece27 In-Reply-To: <87ofdg8xxt.fsf@doohan.bang.priv.no> (Steinar Bang's message of "Tue, 09 Jul 2002 22:10:22 +0200") Original-Lines: 36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO version=2.20 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45608 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45608 Steinar Bang writes: > The login works normally, but when I try to enter an nnimap group, I > get a beep, and a split display, and the following messages in the > lower buffer that's opened: > > (1) (error/warning) Error in process filter: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) > > (2) (error/warning) Error in process filter: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) Does (setq debug-on-signal t) do anything useful? Toggling nnimap-debug might. It is a Nnimap bug for sure, I haven't seen these kind of errors for a long time. > The *nnimap* doohan buffer at this point, is: > > * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen gnus-forward \*)] > * 1014 EXISTS > * 0 RECENT > * OK [UNSEEN 1013] > * OK [UIDVALIDITY 964202290] > 32 OK [READ-WRITE] Completed > * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen gnus-forward) > * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen gnus-forward \*)] > * 1014 EXISTS > * 0 RECENT > * OK [UNSEEN 1013] > * OK [UIDVALIDITY 964202290] > 33 OK [READ-WRITE] Completed > > My own best guess is that something has been corrupted in the cyrus > imapd database. But I don't know what, or how to correct it. But I'm > wondering if it could be something under ~/News/ or ~/Mail/. The error comes from the imap protocol parser, so it is either the server or imap.el. I doubt any caches are involved at that stage.