From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58552 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus losing information about what has been read Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:28:34 -0500 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095946233 16406 80.91.229.6 (23 Sep 2004 13:30:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:30:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M7090@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Sep 23 15:30:19 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13] ident=mail) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CATfv-0003kY-00 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:30:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1CATeQ-0004Cb-00; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:28:46 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1CATeI-0004CV-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:28:38 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CATeJ-0007gH-2r for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:28:39 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B0003A004F for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:28:36 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CATeG-0003qr-00 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:28:36 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-69-33-218-34.chi.megapath.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1095946115 14793 69.33.218.34 (23 Sep 2004 13:28:35 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:28:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JvxQ4AZX0tYvclQqh27edSAlKW0= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58552 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58552 Ralf Angeli writes: > * Kevin Greiner (2004-09-23) writes: > >> My patch was defective. I had tested physical unplugging rather than >> gnus "unplugged". I've updated gnus-int.el again. > > Now the marks are updated correctly. Thank you very much. > > I don't know if it is related to your patch, but I get an error after > changing to "Unplugged" state, entering a group, reading some articles > and trying to leave the group with `q'. Here is the backtrace: > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) > expand-file-name(nil "/home/angeli/News/marks/news.individual.net/de/comp/text/tex/") > nntp-open-marks("de.comp.text.tex" "news.individual.net") > nntp-request-set-mark("de.comp.text.tex" (((172683) add (read))) "news.individual.net") > gnus-request-set-mark("nntp+news.individual.net:de.comp.text.tex" (((172683) add (read)))) > gnus-update-read-articles("nntp+news.individual.net:de.comp.text.tex" nil) > gnus-summary-update-info() > gnus-summary-exit() > call-interactively(gnus-summary-exit) > > Doing an `M-: (setq nntp-marks-file-name ".marks")' allows me to leave > the group again. It almost certainly is related. I can not reproduce the problem using the sequence provided. Can you load the lisp files so that we get a better stacktrace? Just do the following before running gnus. M-x load-librarygnus-int.el M-x load-librarygnus-agent.el M-x load-librarynntp.el Kevin