From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Garbled .overviews with 5.6.11?
Date: 24 Jun 1998 06:27:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zpf35sqg.fsf@sparky.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Mike McEwan's message of "14 Jun 1998 14:15:26 +0100"
Mike McEwan <mike@lotusland.demon.co.uk> writes:
> I'm not sure of the above, but since upgrading to 5.6.11, and
> applying Hrvoje Niksic's `procmail' patch and Kim-Minh Kaplan's
> `fetch-old-headers' patch, I'm getting a number of `Strange nov line'
> messages and `Invalid read syntax' when entering groups and
> downloading news via the `agent'.
>
> It may be something to do with expiry processing, I can't fathom it
> out yet. My .overview files appear to have a number of partial header
> lines and the sequencing of article numbers, top to bottom, appears to
> have gone a little to pot.
I just expired a bunch of articles, and I got one of those "Strange
nov lines" messages when fetching more articles later. So there does
indeed seem to be something wonky in the code that's deleting lines
from the .overview files.
Let's see... This is from alt.folklore.computers:
192316 Re: Y2K "Michael A. Covington" <mc@ai.uga.edu> 23 Jun 1998 18:12:04 -0700 <6mp5bp$mch$1@cronkite.cc.uga.edu> <6mmb2v$cob$1@nntp1.ba.best.com> <6mmb4i$cob$2@nntp1.ba.best.com> <6mmb7a$cob$3@nntp1.ba.best.com> <6mmbau$cob$4@nntp1.ba.best.com> <6mmbeo$cob$6@nntp1.ba.best.com> 1081 11 Xref: nntp.uio.no alt.folklore.suburban:4354 alt.folklore.computers:192316
Wilbur <cwilbur@vengeance.gwi.net> 11 Jun 1998 02:23:58 -0400 <m2ra0wjw1t.fsf@vengeance.gwi.net> <6lm9uj$8ep$6@mawar.singnet.com.sg> 4386 128 Xref: nntp.uio.no alt.computer.consultants:84370 alt.folklore.computers:191417
It looks like something cut off the number at the start of the line.
Hm. I've looked the code over, and the only function used to delete
lines is `gnus-delete-line', which means that this should be
impossible. (Unless there's narrowing in effect, and there is none.)
I'm stumped.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-06-24 4:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-06-14 13:15 Mike McEwan
1998-06-24 4:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1998-06-24 18:29 ` Mike McEwan
1998-06-27 2:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-06-30 0:28 ` Mike McEwan
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