From: Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>
Subject: Re: Weird infinite (?) loop when entering newsgroup
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 18:21:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ubrkhicxv.fsf@xpediantsolutions.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zn81quz1.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp>
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
> I've just starting using Gnus 5.10.6 (is this group the appropriate
> place to post bug reports for older versions?),
Yes.
> and when I try to enter
> the newgroup "comp.emacs", it never seems to succeed, instead printing
> out an infinite series of messages; I think I've succesfully entered
> that newsgroup using 5.10.6 before (yesterday :-) though.
>
> Here are the messages:
>
> Retrieving newsgroup: comp.emacs...
> Fetching headers for comp.emacs...
> Created backup copy of overview in /home/miles/.gnus/agent/nntp/nnrp.gol.com/comp/emacs/.overview~6~.
> Overview buffer not sorted!
> Finding sort keys...
> Sorting records...
> Reordering buffer... Done
> Overview buffer not sorted!
> Finding sort keys...
> Sorting records...
> Reordering buffer... Done
> Overview buffer not sorted!
> Finding sort keys...
> Sorting records...
> Reordering buffer... Done
> Overview buffer not sorted!
> Finding sort keys...
> Sorting records...
> Reordering buffer... Done
> Overview buffer not sorted!
> Finding sort keys...
> Sorting records...
> ...ad nauseum...
>
> [Not sure if I should include the .overview file -- it's about 50KB
> compressed.]
>
> Any ideas?
Haven't seen anything like this in a long time. Please email the
.overview file to me. It shouldn't take long to figure out what is
wrong. Most likely your server garbled one or more of the headers.
Code exists to remove such problems but it must be missing something.
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-21 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-21 22:24 Miles Bader
2004-05-21 23:21 ` Kevin Greiner [this message]
2004-05-22 2:00 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-24 20:57 ` Rob Browning
2004-06-25 4:44 ` Kevin Greiner
2004-06-26 23:47 ` Rob Browning
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