Bug entering summary from group buffer with dormant articles

Bug entering summary from group buffer with dormant articles

[Chris Brierley]

Gnus v5.8.5
GNU Emacs 20.6.1 (i386-*-windows98.1998)

I have an nnimap group where I've marked a number of articles as
dormant (?).  Upon re-entering that group later from the *Group*
buffer, Gnus barfs with the following backtrace (note
"CI-RESPONSE" is part of the subject of the messages marked as
dormant).

If I enter the group with C-u RET, I can successfully enter the
group, but the articles that I most recently marked as dormant are
now marked as ticked (!).  If I mark them all, again, as dormant
and exit, the problem seems to disappear.  I can re-enter the
group without the below error, and the messages stay marked dormant.

,-----
| Signaling: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p CI-RESPONSE)
|   gnus-sorted-complement((759 762 2052 2726 2909 2916 2918 2934 2938 2960 3055 3073 3096 3097 3103 3166 3207 3208 3209 3210 3211 3212 3213 3214 3215 3216 CI-RESPONSE) (759 762 2052 2726 2909 2916 2918 2934 2938 2960 3055 3073 3096 3097 3103 3166 3207 3208 3209 3210 3211 3212 3212 3213 3213 3214 3214 3215 3215 3216 3216))
|   gnus-select-newsgroup("nnimap+ct:mail/ci" nil nil)
|   gnus-summary-read-group-1("nnimap+ct:mail/ci" nil t nil nil nil)
|   gnus-summary-read-group("nnimap+ct:mail/ci" nil t nil nil nil nil)
|   gnus-group-read-group(nil t)
|   gnus-group-select-group(nil)
|   gnus-topic-select-group(nil)
|   call-interactively(gnus-topic-select-group)
`-----

Re: Bug entering summary from group buffer with dormant articles

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Chris Brierley <brierley@pobox.com> writes:

> I have an nnimap group where I've marked a number of articles as
> dormant (?).  Upon re-entering that group later from the *Group*
> buffer, Gnus barfs with the following backtrace (note
> "CI-RESPONSE" is part of the subject of the messages marked as
> dormant).

This most likely means that a NOV line was messed up.  Could that be
the case?

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Bug entering summary from group buffer with dormant articles

[Chris Brierley]

On 2000-08-10, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> Chris Brierley <brierley@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > I have an nnimap group where I've marked a number of articles as
> > dormant (?).  Upon re-entering that group later from the *Group*
> > buffer, Gnus barfs with the following backtrace (note
> > "CI-RESPONSE" is part of the subject of the messages marked as
> > dormant).
> 
> This most likely means that a NOV line was messed up.  Could
> that be the case?

It could be the case -- I think it's probably the case, but the
point is that Gnus seems to do it.  At least this happens
virtually every time I mark an article dormant in any nnimap
group.

Is there anything further I can do to help debug this?

Re: Bug entering summary from group buffer with dormant articles

[Walter Franzini]

Chris Brierley <brierley@pobox.com> writes:

> On 2000-08-10, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

[...]

> > This most likely means that a NOV line was messed up.  Could
> > that be the case?
> 
> It could be the case -- I think it's probably the case, but the
> point is that Gnus seems to do it.  At least this happens
> virtually every time I mark an article dormant in any nnimap
> group.
> 
> Is there anything further I can do to help debug this?
> 

When this happen to me I simply delete
~/News/cache/nnimap......../.overview  and 
M-x gnus-cache-generate-nov-databses

Some week ago I sent to this list a broken .overview and a good
.overview for the same nnimap group.

Ciao

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