From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38013 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Laura Conrad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: error entering cvs gnus Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 07:22:27 -0400 Sender: lconrad@tuba.localdomain Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035173662 18529 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:14:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:14:22 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 15481 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2001 11:22:44 -0000 Original-Received: from serpent.laymusic.org (HELO serpent) (66.92.70.82) by gnus.org with SMTP; 19 Aug 2001 11:22:44 -0000 Original-Received: by serpent (Postfix, from userid 501) id C83B1202A8; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 07:22:27 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sun, 19 Aug 2001 10:58:50 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 39 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38013 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38013 >>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson writes: Simon> Laura Conrad writes: >> >> When I try to enter the cvs gnus that I upped this >> afternoon, I >> get: >> >> >> >> Signaling: (file-error "Creating directory" "file exists" >> >> "/home/lconrad/Mail/world/old") Simon> So the error message was correct? The error message may have been correct, but gnus should have recovered from it and let me in anyway. My complaint was that I couldn't run gnus at all. Simon> Hm, what would Gnus do other than to complain? Let me read my other groups. Simon> As I see it, the directory where a nnml group lives must Simon> exist in order to write things into it. If it doesn't Simon> exist, Gnus tries to create it. I suspect the reason you Simon> haven't received the error message before is that you Simon> didn't write to the group (i.e. deleted or inserted Simon> articles). Would that be right? This isn't a group that mail gets sorted into; it's the archive group that mail from another group gets expired into. So I don't see why gnus should be trying to write to it on entry. Simon> I don't think there's a bug here. I disagree; no matter what damn fool thing the user has done she should still be able to get into gnus. -- Laura (mailto:lconrad@laymusic.org , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139