From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27332 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lconrad@gamesville.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: gnus hangs on entry Date: 30 Nov 1999 11:32:44 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: Reply-To: lconrad@world.std.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164375 23987 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:39:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:39:35 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA23420 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 11:35:39 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAB29955; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:35:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:34:48 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA03831 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:34:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from gamesville.com (gtw.nineco.com [206.166.153.130]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA23405 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 11:32:46 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from acme47.nineco.com (IDENT:lconrad@acme47.nineCo.com [192.168.0.54]) by gamesville.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA31615 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 11:32:40 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: #0j-Ll[fajrfupWYMv&wa\m7!Sh=&3;JE-_&M-L,ULz(aE8iu%m1SHa5wG.V{3B:Fdnd/T# O -}0pPGYw%t1z`o&T_c=)p8l[}7R\={[@B*Jyj*.L4 hnJ*AXb Original-Lines: 48 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070099 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.99) XEmacs/21.1 (20 Minutes to Nikko) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27332 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27332 I seem to have managed to screw up my gnus structure, and I'd rather fix it in a kosher way than just make a wild guess. Unfortunately, this is a sob story rather than a bug report, because I lost most of the relevant data even if I were on my home machine, and I'm sending this from work since I can't get into gnus at home. This is pgnus 0.98 on xemacs 20.4 running on Mandrake LINUX 6.0. Sunday night, my machine as a whole hung, and I rebooted via the reset switch. It turned out that I needed to run fsck manually on the partition with my Mail and News directories, and I answered yes to a bunch of questions about fixing things in those directories, which I don't remember any details about. When I went into Gnus after doing this, it asked me did I want to use the backup .gnusrc.el file, and when I said yes, it gave me an error message. So I said no the next time, and when I got into gnus there were a lot of messages marked as unread which I had seen before, but I could just catch most of my groups up without looking at them, so it wasn't a major problem. Last night, I don't remember doing anything I don't do all the time, but xemacs got in a state where its window was completely blank. No menus, no icons, no modeline, no text. Just a blank window. I went to bed. When I woke up in the morning, it was still like that, so I destroyed the window and started xeamcs again. This time, when I tried to get into gnus, I not only got the lisp error when I said to use the backup file, but I never managed to get into gnus when I said not to. I got all the usual messages in the mini-buffer about checking the servers and reading the active files, but then instead of showing me my groups, it just stops. This happened several times, both with xemacs and xemacs -nw. ^G does not interrupt it; the only way to stop it is to kill xemacs. So my questions are: Was anything I describe above a particularly stupid thing to do, and if so why? What should I do now? -- Laura (mailto:lconrad@world.std.com , http://www.world.std.com/~lconrad/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139