[PB]: YAAI (Yet Another Agent Issue)

[PB]: YAAI (Yet Another Agent Issue)

[Xavier Maillard]

Hello,

I am still facing problems with Agent.

Today's bug:

I did 'J s' in the group buffer and let the agent does it job (took
some time since I deleted all my agent hierarchy as suggested).

So all was downloaded/fetched (with a agent--predicate set to true). 

When done, I entered several to check the presence of the agent
downloaded mark on all my articles ie. '+'. All was right.

Then I had to reboot my computer, so I left Emacs thus Gnus.

When the machine had rebooted, I started Gnus again and entered the
same groups and then no article was marked as downloaded anymore :(

Furthermore, entering groups has the same effect than I had 2/3 days
ago: it takes long. Gnus download each time its active file for each
group ! 

I am really going nuts right now since for me and temporary for Gnus
all was ok.

I don't have any backtrace but can produce one if needed.

Any idea, piece of advice is keen welcome :)

Regards,

zeDek
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Re: [PB]: YAAI (Yet Another Agent Issue)

[Kevin Greiner]

Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I am still facing problems with Agent.
>
> Today's bug:
>
> I did 'J s' in the group buffer and let the agent does it job (took
> some time since I deleted all my agent hierarchy as suggested).
>
> So all was downloaded/fetched (with a agent--predicate set to true). 
>
> When done, I entered several to check the presence of the agent
> downloaded mark on all my articles ie. '+'. All was right.
>
> Then I had to reboot my computer, so I left Emacs thus Gnus.
>
> When the machine had rebooted, I started Gnus again and entered the
> same groups and then no article was marked as downloaded anymore :(

The agent's record of which articles have been downloaded is read from
disk when the summary buffer is opened.  Use debug-on-entry to step
through gnus-agent-load-alist.  I suspect that the agent, for unknown
reasons, is getting confused about where it is storing a group's
articles.  If that is the case, you'll find that the agent can't load
the .agentview file for the group.

Kevin