From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68633 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Problems using agent Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:37:49 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246559979 10410 80.91.229.12 (2 Jul 2009 18:39:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:39:39 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17060@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jul 02 20:39:32 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MMRBz-0007fL-Eo for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:39:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MMRAr-0004dP-Cs; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:38:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MMRAp-0004dB-Cu for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:38:19 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MMRAi-0007UH-SE for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:38:19 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1MMRBE-00010n-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:38:44 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MMRAg-0003yR-6l for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:38:10 +0000 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.204.180.getinternet.no ([84.208.204.180]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:38:10 +0000 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.204.180.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:38:10 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 44 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.204.180.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6hyFf84/T/Zgrs2ZF3hMUT2nqQ8= X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68633 Archived-At: Platform: Acer Aspire One, Intel Atom, Linpus Linux (FC8 derivative) GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.1) of 2007-10-24 on xenbuilder2.fedora.redhat.com No Gnus v0.11 (CVS update from June 29 2009) I have two problems with agent right now, and I wonder if they are related, and related to something in my settings? I'll appreciate any pointers, and guesses, as to where the issue may be. My setup is old and has evolved since the early 90-ies, so I may have a legacy setting that conflicts with the current code. I've seen the issue in multiple Gnusen on different emacsen (21 and 22) on different platforms (RHEL4, Windows Vista Professional, debian lenny, and now Linpus linux), all with No Gnus, and at different points in time. The problems are: 1. adding gnus-agent-fetch-selected-article to gnus-select-article-hook no longer saves the article in the agent 2. when exiting a group while unplugged I see the following message in the minibuffer Error reading nntp marks file /home/user/News/marks/news.gmane.org/gmane/discuss/ ((error IO error reading /home/user/News/marks/news.gmane.org/gmane/discuss/: Is a directory)). Continuing will use marks from .newsrc.eld. Continue? (yes or no) When I respond with `yes RET' I get the following message in the minibuffer: Could not write to /home/user/News/marks/news.gmane.org/gmane/discuss/ ((file-error Opening output file is a directory /home/user/News/marks/news.gmane.org/gmane/discuss/)). Continue? (yes or no) I respond with `yes RET' and I'm back in *Group*, but I have no idea what, if any, state has been saved The directory above is present and contains a file called .marks: -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 1545 2009-07-02 20:15 .marks I haven't seen anyone else report these problems, and google finds no relevant matches, and I see the problem on all of my installations, which share the same emacs and Gnus config, which is why I think this must be caused by something in my setup. Thanx! - Steinar