From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16385 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Stephens Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [patch] `gnus-agent-fetch-heades' (again) Date: 29 Aug 1998 17:40:32 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155267 27466 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:07:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:07:47 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA27436 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:51:41 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAF13252; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 11:22:32 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 29 Aug 1998 11:49:13 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA01271 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 11:49:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA27393 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:48:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from (cenderis.demon.co.uk) [193.237.0.193] by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0zCoBK-00067D-00; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 16:48:55 +0000 Original-Received: (from bruce@localhost) by cenderis.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA00705; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 17:47:57 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Mike McEwan's message of "29 Aug 1998 14:07:52 +0100" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.41/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Original-Lines: 26 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16385 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16385 Mike McEwan writes: > Well I'm coming to understand a little more now :-). Following my > last patch (Lars, at least you added a check to see that we actually > have a `gnus-agent-article-alist') I attempted to subscribe to a new > newsgroup, but not having a .agentview initially `~fetch-headers' > does not select any articles :-(. Whew! I thought it might just be me having some problems. Mostly, agent works just fine, but just recently (5.6.40 or so) it seems to be ignoring a newsgroup altogether. This newsgroup is moderated, so it's intermittent; in fact, when I checked the directory, all of the articles had expired---but there were new ones yesterday. The agent just ignored them. So, I thought maybe just deleting the relevant directory, unsubscribing and resubscribing, sacrificing the right number of chickens, and similar things would work. Clearly not, and stepping through the code leaves me utterly confused as to how the agent is ever supposed to notice new articles to download. Also, killing groups hasn't worked for some time. If you have a group which has had articles in it (retrieved by the agent), and you kill the group, then the next time you expire articles, gnus crashes. Removing all knowledge of the group (by deleting lines from agent.lib/history) seems to fix it.