* gnus hangs on entry
@ 1999-11-30 16:32 lconrad
1999-11-30 17:48 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-12-01 22:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: lconrad @ 1999-11-30 16:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
I seem to have managed to screw up my gnus structure, and I'd rather
fix it in a kosher way than just make a wild guess.
Unfortunately, this is a sob story rather than a bug report, because I
lost most of the relevant data even if I were on my home machine, and
I'm sending this from work since I can't get into gnus at home.
This is pgnus 0.98 on xemacs 20.4 running on Mandrake LINUX 6.0.
Sunday night, my machine as a whole hung, and I rebooted via the reset
switch. It turned out that I needed to run fsck manually on the
partition with my Mail and News directories, and I answered yes to a
bunch of questions about fixing things in those directories, which I
don't remember any details about.
When I went into Gnus after doing this, it asked me did I want to use
the backup .gnusrc.el file, and when I said yes, it gave me an error
message. So I said no the next time, and when I got into gnus there
were a lot of messages marked as unread which I had seen before, but I
could just catch most of my groups up without looking at them, so it
wasn't a major problem.
Last night, I don't remember doing anything I don't do all the time,
but xemacs got in a state where its window was completely blank. No
menus, no icons, no modeline, no text. Just a blank window. I went
to bed. When I woke up in the morning, it was still like that, so I
destroyed the window and started xeamcs again.
This time, when I tried to get into gnus, I not only got the lisp
error when I said to use the backup file, but I never managed to get
into gnus when I said not to. I got all the usual messages in the
mini-buffer about checking the servers and reading the active files,
but then instead of showing me my groups, it just stops. This
happened several times, both with xemacs and xemacs -nw. ^G does not
interrupt it; the only way to stop it is to kill xemacs.
So my questions are:
Was anything I describe above a particularly stupid thing to
do, and if so why?
What should I do now?
--
Laura (mailto:lconrad@world.std.com , http://www.world.std.com/~lconrad/ )
(617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574
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* Re: gnus hangs on entry
1999-11-30 16:32 gnus hangs on entry lconrad
@ 1999-11-30 17:48 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-12-01 22:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Kai Großjohann @ 1999-11-30 17:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
lconrad@gamesville.com writes:
> Was anything I describe above a particularly stupid thing to
> do, and if so why?
I don't think you did something really stupid. Hm. I suggest that
you have a look at your ~/.newsrc, ~/.newsrc.eld, ~/.gnus,
~/.newsrc-dribble and so on to see if there is any garbage in one of
those files.
The only thing different is that I might have investigated what Gnus
didn't like about the auto-save file that it caused to hang, rather
than just saying no the second time.
kai
--
because I couldn't think of a good beginning.
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* Re: gnus hangs on entry
1999-11-30 16:32 gnus hangs on entry lconrad
1999-11-30 17:48 ` Kai Großjohann
@ 1999-12-01 22:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1999-12-01 22:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
lconrad@gamesville.com writes:
> This time, when I tried to get into gnus, I not only got the lisp
> error when I said to use the backup file, but I never managed to get
> into gnus when I said not to. I got all the usual messages in the
> mini-buffer about checking the servers and reading the active files,
> but then instead of showing me my groups, it just stops. This
> happened several times, both with xemacs and xemacs -nw. ^G does not
> interrupt it; the only way to stop it is to kill xemacs.
>
> So my questions are:
>
> Was anything I describe above a particularly stupid thing to
> do, and if so why?
Nope.
> What should I do now?
I'd try with a different version of (X)Emacs to see whether you get a
different result.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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