DNEWS hanging on me?

DNEWS hanging on me?

[Alan Shutko]

I've been trying to use the agent to download posts off Corel's
support server, which is running some version of DNEWS.  Download goes
fine, except right around 200k it stops sending me data.  Never quite
the same amount, but it's very consistent.  

This is really annoying, of course, since it means I either piecemeal
download articles (keeping it under the 200k limit by trial and
error), or just keep hitting J s C-g J s C-g J s C-g J s C-g ....

Agent works fine everywhere else.  Any idea what the problem is?
Maybe they have useless resource limits set or something?

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Re: DNEWS hanging on me?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

> I've been trying to use the agent to download posts off Corel's
> support server, which is running some version of DNEWS.  Download goes
> fine, except right around 200k it stops sending me data.  Never quite
> the same amount, but it's very consistent.  

After you break, what are the contents in the " *nntpd*" or " *server ...*" 
buffers?

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: DNEWS hanging on me?

[Alan Shutko]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> After you break, what are the contents in the " *nntpd*" or " *server ...*" 
> buffers?

In the " *server ..." buffer are a lot of articles, of the form
below.  This is the last one before it gets stuck.  I can do another
J s right after breaking, and it'll hang again, but not always in the
same place.  (Usually not, in fact.)  The backtrace is like this

Signaling: (quit)
  accept-process-output(#<process nntpd<1>> 1)
  nntp-accept-process-output(#<process nntpd<1>>)
  nntp-accept-response()
  nntp-retrieve-articles((3 4 5 6 24 29 30 32 48 52 57 61 62 70 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 ... . (174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 ... . (224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 ... . ...))) "ctech.discussion-business-important" "cnews.corel.ca")
  gnus-retrieve-articles((3 4 5 6 24 29 30 32 48 52 57 61 62 70 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 ... . (174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 ... . (224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 ... . ...))) "nntp+cnews.corel.ca:ctech.discussion-business-important")
  gnus-agent-fetch-articles("nntp+cnews.corel.ca:ctech.discussion-business-important" (3 4 5 6 24 29 30 32 48 52 57 61 62 70 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 ... . (174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 ... . (224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 ... . ...))))
  gnus-agent-fetch-group-1("nntp+cnews.corel.ca:ctech.discussion-business-important" (nntp "cnews.corel.ca" 120))
  gnus-agent-fetch-session()
* call-interactively(gnus-agent-fetch-session)


220 245 <36682AE4.9A75F2FA@corel.ca> article retrieved - head and body follows
Message-ID: <36682AE4.9A75F2FA@corel.ca>
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 13:33:08 -0500
From: Jason Carter <Jasoncar@corel.ca>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: ctech.discussion-business-important
Subject: FTP revamp updated again
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.167.40.2
X-Trace: 4 Dec 1998 13:31:03 -0500, 209.167.40.2
Organization: "Corel support"
Lines: 9
X-Authenticated-User: ctech
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Xref: cnews ctech.discussion-business-important:245

Check under the extranet at
/technicalsupport/newftp/newftp.htm &
/technicalsupport/newftp/wp8ftp/wp8files.htm

As always comments are welcome :)

Thanks
Jason

.


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Re: DNEWS hanging on me?

[Jaap-Henk Hoepman]

Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
> > After you break, what are the contents in the " *nntpd*" or " *server ...*" 
> > buffers?
> 
> In the " *server ..." buffer are a lot of articles, of the form
> below.  This is the last one before it gets stuck.  I can do another
> J s right after breaking, and it'll hang again, but not always in the
> same place.  (Usually not, in fact.)  The backtrace is like this

It may help to know that a similar bug already existed in previous versions of
gnus (if I remember correctly, qgnus). For groups with a large no. of articles 
it would hang somewhere (and not always on the same place). So it should be
a problem with older code...

Jaap-Henk

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Re: DNEWS hanging on me?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

> > After you break, what are the contents in the " *nntpd*" or "
> > *server ...*" buffers?
> 
> In the " *server ..." buffer are a lot of articles, of the form
> below.  This is the last one before it gets stuck.  I can do another
> J s right after breaking, and it'll hang again, but not always in the
> same place.  (Usually not, in fact.)

Where was point in the " *server...*" buffer?  At the end of the
buffer, or somewhere else?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen