From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/15365 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Garbled .overviews with 5.6.11? Date: 24 Jun 1998 06:27:51 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154410 21731 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:53:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:53:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA14582 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:57:30 -0700 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA11777 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 00:53:15 -0400 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 XAS08374; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 23:26:31 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 23 Jun 1998 23:50:04 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA16788 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 23:49:19 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 21704 invoked by uid 504); 24 Jun 1998 04:48:55 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 21684 invoked from network); 24 Jun 1998 04:48:51 -0000 Original-Received: from ppp087.uio.no (HELO sparky.gnus.org) (129.240.240.92) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 24 Jun 1998 04:48:50 -0000 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by sparky.gnus.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA20716; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 06:49:05 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Mike McEwan's message of "14 Jun 1998 14:15:26 +0100" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.13/Emacs 19.34 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > I'm not sure of the above, but since upgrading to 5.6.11, and > applying Hrvoje Niksic's `procmail' patch and Kim-Minh Kaplan's > `fetch-old-headers' patch, I'm getting a number of `Strange nov line' > messages and `Invalid read syntax' when entering groups and > downloading news via the `agent'. > > It may be something to do with expiry processing, I can't fathom it > out yet. My .overview files appear to have a number of partial header > lines and the sequencing of article numbers, top to bottom, appears to > have gone a little to pot. I just expired a bunch of articles, and I got one of those "Strange nov lines" messages when fetching more articles later. So there does indeed seem to be something wonky in the code that's deleting lines from the .overview files. Let's see... This is from alt.folklore.computers: 192316 Re: Y2K "Michael A. Covington" 23 Jun 1998 18:12:04 -0700 <6mp5bp$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 11 Jun 1998 02:23:58 -0400 <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