From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57620 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Problems when upgrading newsrc from 5.9 to No Gnus Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 14:05:21 +0200 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085141228 7943 80.91.224.253 (21 May 2004 12:07:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 12:07:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6160@lists.math.uh.edu Fri May 21 14:06:55 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 1BR8nf-0004R2-00 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 14:06:55 +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 1BR8mZ-0004M3-00; Fri, 21 May 2004 07:05:47 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BR8mP-0004Lv-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 21 May 2004 07:05:37 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BR8mP-0003w8-6y for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 21 May 2004 07:05:37 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA85A3A0041 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 07:05:35 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BR8mM-0006mi-00 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 14:05:34 +0200 Original-Received: from lumberjack.physik.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.10.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 14:05:34 +0200 Original-Received: from reiner.steib by lumberjack.physik.uni-ulm.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 14:05:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lumberjack.physik.uni-ulm.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:l0mSgZ5QDVQHqc2nSGeX9cU0Pak= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57620 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57620 [ Taking this from gnu.emacs.help to ding... ] On Thu, May 20 2004, Miles Bader wrote: ,----[ ] | I tried it out on a lark today (while setting up the gnus arch archive), | and it flaked out pretty badly, undefined variable errors, couldn't read | mail (got it from the server, but failed to store it in my mail | folders!). I even thought it trashed my .newsrc.eld file for a while -- | it asked if I wanted to "upgrade" that file (irreversibly), recommended | I make a backup, and when I realized I'd better go back to 5.9, the | backup had been deleted! Luckily it turned out that the "upgrade" had | failed too... :-) `---- ,----[ ] | BTW, about the .newsrc "upgrade" -- as I mentioned, it asked me, and | then failed to actually change anything. | | One thing that's funny about my Gnus setup is that I don't use a | .newsrc file -- I only have have a .newsrc.eld file. Should the | upgrade process cope with that situation? `---- It should work, I think. But I'm not familiar with `gnus-convert-old-newsrc' and friends. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- PGP key available via WWW http://rsteib.home.pages.de/