Re: The horrible bug

[Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk>]

Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk> writes:

> Kim-Minh Kaplan <KimMinh.Kaplan@Utopia.EUnet.fr> writes:
> 
> > Well I could not reproduce the bug.
> 
> The problem is that I can't either. I think that the person that
> started the original thread said that the bug was intermittent and
> that Lars couldn't reproduce it. 
> 
> When it happened to me twice I couldn't find a reason for it nor could
> I reproduce it.
> 
> Thanks for trying.

Well it just happened again. It probably happens all the time but
because I don't have many really low volume folders I don't notice
it. 

The message in question is number 652 and was placed in the group
spam; I've included it below and below that is my Gnus environment.

I use nnml to read mail. A message numbered 652 was incorporated and
split into the "spam" group however I noticed that the number of
articles in the group did not increase. No matter how I entered the
group the file was invisible via Gnus. It was visible via more, scan,
show and exmh.

The .overview file _had_ been correctly updated and message 652, the
last message, was at the end of the file.

My .nnmail-cache file contained only one copy of 652's Message ID and
it was so near the bottom of the file it could only have been included
from the last batch of mail.

There were 218 messages in the folder however Gnus believed that there
were 359. The relevant line in my active file read: "spam 652 293 y".

Typing "g" and "1 g" had no effect. However if I started versions of
Gnus without exiting the already running version first
(plugged/unplugged, read/don't read save file, master/slave), the file
652 would be visible. Note that I exited the groups and Gnus with "Q".

When I restarted the original Gnus the file was visible from it too.

There was no mention of the file number 652 in my
,newsrc-localhost.eld file.



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Eze Ogwuma