From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58568 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: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:22:33 -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 1096028697 21459 80.91.229.6 (24 Sep 2004 12:24:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:24:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M7106@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Sep 24 14:24:37 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 1CAp7s-0005ZQ-00 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:24:37 +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 1CAp68-0007LO-00; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:22:48 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1CAp5z-0007LG-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:22:39 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CAp5x-0007Yd-Hi for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:22:37 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 146FC3A003B for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:22:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CAp5t-0006ph-00 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:22:33 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.64.160.238 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1096028553 25299 198.64.160.238 (24 Sep 2004 12:22:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:22:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:D74OTaaHPZ8f8lMom1a4yMAErsw= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58568 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58568 Ralf Angeli writes: > * Kevin Greiner (2004-09-24) writes: > >> I'm trying an entirely different aproach now as it turned out that the >> nntp implementation required the server to be open for >> nntp-marks-file-name to be correct. >> >> It appears that the agent's synchronization function could actually >> try to write the flags back to itself. Then, having done so, delete >> the flags file so that all of the flags were lost. I've added some >> additional checks. Please give it a try. > > After a fresh CVS checkout I don't get the error related to > `nntp-marks-file-name' being nil anymore. I noticed a message in the > echo area upon leaving a group in unplugged state with e.g. `q': > > Added to /home/angeli/News/agent/nntp/news.gmane.org/agent.lib/flags > > While there are no errors anymore, the marks are forgotten again. > Tested this by starting Emacs/Gnus in plugged state, downloading new > articles into the agent with `J s', switching to unplugged state with > `J j', reading the articles, shutting down Gnus in unplugged state > with `q y' and restarting Emacs and Gnus in plugged state. Have you customized gnus-agent-synchronize-flags? If it is null, automatic synchronization will be completely turned off. >From this description, the unplugged flags are being saved but never sync'ed. In the last step, when you restart emacs and gnus in a plugged state, do you automatically perform a fetch session ('J s')? Kevin