Re: cannot catchup

[David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> * Sam Steingold <fqf@tah.bet> [2005-03-01 17:24:58 -0500]:
>>>
>>> I hit "c" or "C" on a newsgroup to mark everything as read,
>>> and it now says that there are no new articles.
>>> when I hit "g", however, all the 12,000 new articles are new again.
>>> I cannot spend 10hours waiting for gnus to enter the group with 12,000
>>> new articles, so how do I read it?
>>
>> it appears that I have two identical groups:
>>
>>    s6U 2989n  0s 12328o  gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user             20040622T122410 
>>    s6U 2989n  0s 12328o  gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user             20040622T122410 
>>
>> "^" in *Groups*, then RET on gmane in *Servers*, then "u" on an
>> unsubscried group ==> 2 such groups.
>
> If you kill both groups, restart emacs, and subscribe to the group
> again, can you reproduce this?  I suspect the server name for one of
> the identical groups is slightly off, so equality comparison fails.
> `G E' on the groups will tell.
>
> (The reason killing both groups and subscribing to it again, without
> restarting emacs, might not be enough is that groups linger around in
> some structures when they are killed.)

I've experinced the same thing, over and over again, intermittently.
Normally I end up entering the group and doing `c' there, and also
doing it from the *Groups* buffer.  Eventually it responds :(


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