Re: Problem entering Foreign Groups

[Eze Ogwuma <zcaceog@localhost.localdomain>]

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

> Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > Actually what the "*server news.dircon.co.uk nntp *nntpd**" buffer
> > contains is a number of the articles from the group (rather than
> > headers) but by no means all of the articles.
> 
> If you repeat this several times, can you see a pattern to where Gnus
> stops? 

No but here's some more information.

I enabled "nntp-record-commands" so that I could see exactly what was
going on. I've seen many other reports of the same problem to you over 
the past few months so perhaps you could suggest these people do the
same. 

I attempted to enter a group that I haven't read for a while. At the
time I was plugged and I hadn't tried to download this group with
agent either as I don't normally read it.

The ~/News/agent/nntp/news.dircon.co.uk/agent.lib/active file contains
the correct article range for the group, "7192 7147". The nntp server
reports "211 41 7147 7192".

.newsrc-localhost.eld contains the articles that have been read, that
are cached or ticked.

((1 . 7094) (7096 . 70 99)) ((cache 6110 6113 (7083 . 7084) 7088)
(tick (7083 . 7084) 7088))

Because of this these commands were called after the "group" command. 

>From *nntp-log*

19980701T001727 news.dircon.co.uk XOVER 7095-7095
19980701T001727 news.dircon.co.uk XOVERVIEW 7095-7095
19980701T001727 news.dircon.co.uk HEAD 7095
19980701T001727 news.dircon.co.uk HEAD 7100
19980701T001727 news.dircon.co.uk HEAD 7101
19980701T001727 news.dircon.co.uk HEAD 7102
19980701T001727 news.dircon.co.uk HEAD 7103
19980701T001727 news.dircon.co.uk HEAD 7104

All the way down to:

19980701T001728 news.dircon.co.uk HEAD 7192

Of course since there are no articles with any number before 7147 this 
is the result for most of the HEAD calls.

>From *server news.dircon.co.uk nntp  *nntpd**

423 no such article number in this group
423 no such article number in this group
423 no such article number in this group
423 no such article number in this group
423 no such article number in this group
423 no such article number in this group

The headers for 7147-7192 are then downloaded. 

Then the program freezes.

Why was "XOVERVIEW 7095-7095" called? was it because the result of "XOVER
7095-7095" was "."?

.newsrc-localhost-dribble is unchanged.
-- 
Eze Ogwuma