Re: gnus-agent-fetch-selected-article

[David S Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net>]

(let's try this again, now that it looks like the list is working
again :-)
>>>>> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:34:47 -0600, kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com said:

> David S Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net> writes:

>> So I was too hasty again.  I still occasionally see the issue of new
>> messages not being available.  However, running
>> (gnus-agent-regenerate-group) on the group in question (there's been
>> two of them in the last few minutes since I last posted) seems to
>> solve the problem.  I'd be happy to try to edebug this if someone
>> would point me at what functions I should be looking at.

> If you have the 6.113 revision of gnus-agent.el and gnus-verbose
> is set to 5, or higher, the *messages* buffer will tell you what
> actions were performed to repair your group.  That information may
> help identify where you should start debugging.

Unfortunately setting gnus-verbose to 10 didn't help.
gnus-agent-regenerate-group didn't display anything about repairs.  I
edebugged that function and it looks like it regenerates the overview
file as a matter of course rather than as a result of any error
condition.  The error conditions that would have generated statements
from gnus-verbose don't trigger.  That leads me to believe that the
overview file is getting messed up.  Having lived with it for three
weeks now, I've observed certain features of the problem:

1: it only manifests itself in two groups (both nnimap), my inbox and
the group that holds ding-list messages (ironic, isn't it? :-)

2: it only seems to manifest after one of two operations:

   Running expiry (I use total-expire with varying expiry-waits in
   about 10 groups; I only run expiry by hand a couple times a week),
   which I would expect to affect many more groups, or 

   Moving an article or some number of articles out of the group,
   something that only ever happens from my inbox which suggests the
   ding group shouldn't be affected.

So there's apparently something unique about those groups that's
biting me, but for the life of me, I can't quite figure it out.

Thanks,
-- 
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net