From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: Can't select new articles from large nnml group in sgnus
Date: 22 May 1996 10:06:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qw64tp9f7yk.fsf@gargantua.enst.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Per Abrahamsen's message of (unknown date)
>>>>> "Per" == Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
Per> My nnml:ding.list group has more than 4k messages. After I have
Per> _\bgot new mail in the group, I often can't select the new
Per> articles. Attempting to do so gives me a `no such article' error,
Per> and marks the articles as cancelled. Leaving the group,
Per> reentering it, and selecting an _\bOld message before any of the
Per> new articles solves the problem, after that I can read the new
Per> messages.
Per> I can't track down the error, except that Gnus seems to think
Per> there exist far fewer articles than there does (only ~3k). I
Per> don't have the problem with any other group, but then, none of
Per> the other active groups are nearly as large as the ding group.
Per> Does anyone else experience anything similar?
I'm glad you ask. I've reported this to Lars several times already,
but he couldn't find anything wrong because I was also unable to find
the place of the bug !
It seems to happen randomly: sometimes, nnml-article-file-alist
doesn't contain all the file names, but only the first part. I've
checked the code several times, and I couldn't see a single place
where nnml-article-file-alist fails to be initialized correctly. It
looks like the directory-files function returns a truncated result...
Usually, entering another nnml group then the wanted one corrects the
bug (it forces nnml-article-file-alist to be re-read).
This bug has been present for several months, and is quite
annoying...
Sam
--
"La cervelle des petits enfants, ca doit avoir comme un petit gout de noisette"
Charles Baudelaire
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-05-22 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-05-21 14:09 Per Abrahamsen
1996-05-21 18:12 ` Steven L Baur
1996-05-21 18:56 ` Benny Amorsen
1996-05-22 8:06 ` Samuel Tardieu [this message]
1996-05-22 9:47 ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-05-22 12:38 ` Benny Amorsen
1996-05-24 3:34 ` Sten Drescher
1996-05-22 15:59 ` Samuel Tardieu
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