From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/22014 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexandre Oliva Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Loss of ticks and marks Date: 21 Mar 1999 04:59:14 -0300 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160011 25896 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:26:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:26:51 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA28986 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 03:05:30 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAB02048; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 02:04:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 21 Mar 1999 02:04:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA05899 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 02:04:46 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from grande.dcc.unicamp.br (grande.dcc.unicamp.br [143.106.1.11]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA28977 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 03:04:38 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br (amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br [143.106.7.11]) by grande.dcc.unicamp.br (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id FAA01657 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 05:00:37 -0300 (EST) Original-Received: from bela (bela.lbi.dcc.unicamp.br [143.106.73.1]) by amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA15029 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 05:00:37 -0300 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.07008 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.80) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22014 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22014 Hi there! Once in a while, it happens to me to lose all the ticks and dormant marks in a nnml group. This is very unfortunate because I use auto-expire, so old bug reports I had archived end up being removed almost without notice :-( It had happened to me once about a month ago, and it has just happened again. It took me some time to notice the problem the first time, but this time it was immediate, because I lost information for a huge group that had hundreds of dormant messages, and I was always asked for confirmation before entering the group. Unfortunately, I don't have precise information about what might have triggered the problem, and my only two guesses are: 1) I had just had to `kill -TERM XEmacs' (*). I restarted it and told gnus to load the auto-saved file (unfortunately, I no longer have that auto-save file nor the previous .newsrc.eld~ :-( 2) I sometimes type C-g when I change my mind about entering such huge groups; could this leave internal data in inconsistent state? Any ideas about what might be causing the problem and how to fix it? (I've been always running the latest releases of pgnus, with a delay of one or two days after releases) (*) I had to kill it because of another bug: in a forwarded message buffer (i.e., after C-c C-f), if I type `C-c C-k', gnus enters an endless loop printing the error message `symbolp: ###', where ### is a number. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva IC-Unicamp, Brasil {oliva,Alexandre.Oliva}@dcc.unicamp.br aoliva@{acm.org,computer.org} oliva@{gnu.org,kaffe.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org} *** E-mail about software projects will be forwarded to mailing lists