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From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Subject: Re: unplugged/failure to display expunged
Date: 27 Sep 1999 19:29:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hfkfdb0u.fsf@satellite.local.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Harry Putnam's message of "27 Sep 1999 19:10:52 -0700"

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
> > Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Not sure why there is a 2 number difference.  But anyway, can I edit
> > > the active file and expect the display to show 2123 messages, with out
> > > hosing something else?
> > 
> > Yes.  But it would be interesting to find out why the active file
> > entry for this group got hosed.
> 
> I can't think of how to figure it out.  I did look in the backups I
> have on board (3 days worth) and the active file is already hosed back
> to Sept 25.  It must have been before that when I was able to see all
> messages.

Correction    I looked in the wrong tar.gz file.  It turns out to look
like this:
 sept25:gnu.emacs.gnus 22149 21439 y
 sept26:gnu.emacs.gnus 22173 21439 y
 sept27:gnu.emacs.gnus 22185 21924 y  <= lost 500 posts
current:gnu.emacs.gnus 22230 21924 y     

Something I did yesterday caused it... but can't think what.
It seems to be only gnu.emacs.gnus that was effected.  Would a kill and
retrieve from kill list cause this? (don't remember that happening but..)

> I may have  fired up gnus in  a situation that caused it  to run 5.5
> (ie no pointer  to pgnus*/lisp) And I have  recently started running
> some code I adopted from a post of yours in batch mode:

But again, it seems to only be gnu.emacs.gnus that is effected so
probably not any of the above.

> I'm running it with the pointer to pgnus/lisp added and the "push"
> line commented since under certain condition (not sure what) that push
> caused gnus to stumble.
> 
> I run it like so:
> emacs -batch -l ~/.emacs-dir/batch-fetch.el -f lars-fetch-news
> (batch-fetch.el contains the code below)
> 
> batch-fetch.el
> ----------------
> (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "/usr/local/pgnus-0.96/lisp") load-path))
> 
>  (defun lars-fetch-news ()
>    (interactive)
>    ;(push "/usr/local/pgnus-0.96/lisp" load-path)
>    (let ((init-file-user "")
>  	(gnus-always-read-dribble-file t))
>      (gnus))
>    (gnus-group-send-drafts)
>    (gnus-agent-fetch-session)
>    (gnus-group-quit))


      reply	other threads:[~1999-09-28  2:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-09-27 11:26 Harry Putnam
1999-09-27 18:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-09-28  0:17   ` Harry Putnam
1999-09-28  0:46     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-09-28  2:10       ` Harry Putnam
1999-09-28  2:29         ` Harry Putnam [this message]

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