Re: "Async fetch" failing in current CVS

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

Ulrich Schwarz <uschwarz@gmx.net> writes:

> > -	      (nntp-handle-authinfo nntp-process-to-buffer)
> > +	      (nntp-handle-authinfo process)
> 
> It doesn't help for me (running Linux).
> Despite applying the patch I still get frequently error messages like:
> 
> Signaling: (error "Buffer  *Async Prefetch Article* has no process")
>   process-send-string(#<buffer " *Async Prefetch Article*"> "ARTICLE 77379
>   \n")
>     nntp-handle-authinfo(#<buffer " *Async Prefetch Article*">)
>       nntp-async-trigger(#<network connection "nntpd<1>" ("nntp" . "news.cis.dfn.de") state:run>)
>         nntp-after-change-function(1 80 0)

It doesn't look like the patch was used, make sure you've recompiled
and/or reloaded nntp.el.

By the backtrace, it looks like it used to -- the patch make
`nntp-async-trigger' pass it's first argument to
`nntp-handle-authinfo' instead of a buffer, but it looks like you
still have the old behaviour.

> Apart from that, pgnus sometimes waits eternally for an article to
> be fetched asynchroneously - you have to press Control-G to free Gnus again.

Perhaps the asynchronous support should be disabled then, unless
someone is able to debug this and come up with a patch.