From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57628 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Weird infinite (?) loop when entering newsgroup Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 18:21:32 -0500 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87zn81quz1.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085181729 6740 80.91.224.253 (21 May 2004 23:22:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 23:22:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6168@lists.math.uh.edu Sat May 22 01:22:04 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BRJL1-0006S5-00 for ; Sat, 22 May 2004 01:22:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BRJKi-0006NT-00; Fri, 21 May 2004 18:21:44 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BRJKb-0006NN-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 21 May 2004 18:21:37 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BRJKZ-0004aP-9Q for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 21 May 2004 18:21:35 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 996C53A0037 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 18:21:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BRJKY-0005X5-00 for ; Sat, 22 May 2004 01:21:34 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 49 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-216-12-206-88.ev1.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1085181693 20653 216.12.206.88 (21 May 2004 23:21:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 23:21:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bqw1Fs1muvnY9oH8nXnO5sdxJPo= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57628 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57628 Miles Bader 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