strange posting or bug?

strange posting or bug?

[Robert Epprecht]

With Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95 and the agent I have a news posting
which shows in the summary as

  [   0: nobody              ] (none)

trying to select the article gives

Signaling: (wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p nil)
  gnus-article-get-xrefs()
  run-hooks(gnus-tmp-internal-hook)
  apply(run-hooks gnus-tmp-internal-hook)
  gnus-run-hooks(gnus-tmp-internal-hook)
  gnus-article-prepare-display()
  gnus-article-prepare(1245 nil)
  gnus-summary-display-article(1245)
  gnus-summary-next-article(t nil)
  gnus-summary-next-unread-article()
* call-interactively(gnus-summary-next-unread-article)

The file in the agents directory has 0 bytes length.

What's that? I have never seen this before.

Robert Epprecht

Re: strange posting or bug?

[Robert Epprecht]

(Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95)

Uuups, now I have *four* empty articles in my Agents cache.
   [   0: nobody              ] (none)
All the other groups seem ok.

Anybody else sees something like that? What's happening here?

Robert Epprecht

Re: strange posting or bug?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Robert Epprecht <epprecht@sunweb.ch> writes:

> Uuups, now I have *four* empty articles in my Agents cache.
>    [   0: nobody              ] (none)
> All the other groups seem ok.

I've seen that when the Agent has broken down while fetching
messages...  Could that be the case here as well?

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

Re: strange posting or bug?

[Robert Epprecht]

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

> Robert Epprecht <epprecht@sunweb.ch> writes:
> 
> > Uuups, now I have *four* empty articles in my Agents cache.
> >    [   0: nobody              ] (none)
> > All the other groups seem ok.

> I've seen that when the Agent has broken down while fetching
> messages...  Could that be the case here as well?

Could be, yes, but ...
I have seen it several times now in several groups
(-: and the Agent didn't break so often. :-)

It seems to happen only in low traffic groups.
I think it happens if there are no new news in the group (but only
sometimes). But I'm not shure yet.

Robert Epprecht