pgnus emergency?

pgnus emergency?

[Bill White]

Pterodactyl Gnus v0.84, GNU Emacs 20.3.9.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1, X
toolkit) of Fri May 7 1999 on banshee

When I came in this morning, my *Group* buffer looked like this, where
groups with mail received their mail when I retrieved it this morning.

<snip>...
          *: nnml:wri.jokes
          3: nnml:mail.misc
          *: nnml:wri.social
          *: nnml:wri.wire
          1: nnml:wri.all
          1: nnml:wri.local
          *: nnml:wri.pubs
          *: nnml:office-move
          1: nnml:might-be-spam
          *: nntp+usenet.wolfram.com:alt.humor.best-of-usenet
<snip>...

When I try to enter a starred group with RET, I get the following
error:

   Retrieving newsgroup: nnml:wri.social...
   No such group: wri.social
   Couldn't request group nnml:wri.social: No such group: wri.social

which gives this backtrace:

   Signaling: (error "Couldn't request group nnml:wri.social: No such group: wri.social")
     signal(error ("Couldn't request group nnml:wri.social: No such group: wri.social"))
     error("Couldn't request group %s: %s" "nnml:wri.social" "No such group: wri.social")
     gnus-select-newsgroup("nnml:wri.social" nil nil)
     gnus-summary-read-group-1("nnml:wri.social" nil t nil nil nil)
     gnus-summary-read-group("nnml:wri.social" nil t nil nil nil nil)
     gnus-group-read-group(nil t)
     gnus-group-select-group(nil)
     gnus-topic-select-group(nil)
   * call-interactively(gnus-topic-select-group)

My gnus-group-line-format is:

"%M%S%p%P%5y: %(%g%)%l\n"

The '*' appears in the slot reserved for %y, Number of unread,
unticked articles (integer). What does this mean, and how can I
recover? My Mail directory and .newsrc* files appear to be intact.

Waiting anxiously,

bw
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Re: pgnus emergency?

[Stainless Steel Rat]

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* Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>  on Thu, 13 May 1999
| When I came in this morning, my *Group* buffer looked like this, where
| groups with mail received their mail when I retrieved it this morning.

| <snip>...
|           *: nnml:wri.jokes

I've seen this happen once before -- with a released version of Gnus.  I
was never able to reproduce the phenomenon so I discounted it as a user
error of some sort.
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Re: pgnus emergency?

[Alexandre Oliva]

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On May 13, 1999, Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> wrote:

> * Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>  on Thu, 13 May 1999
> | When I came in this morning, my *Group* buffer looked like this, where
> | groups with mail received their mail when I retrieved it this morning.

> | <snip>...
> |           *: nnml:wri.jokes

> I've seen this happen once before -- with a released version of Gnus.  I
> was never able to reproduce the phenomenon so I discounted it as a user
> error of some sort.

I sometimes get this when disk is full and gnus writes an incomplete
`active' file.  So I wrote the attached script, which has saved my
life several times already :-)

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