* Weirdness ... virtually lost .newsrc.eld
@ 2000-04-05 3:35 Chris Richards
2000-04-05 9:02 ` Kai Großjohann
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From: Chris Richards @ 2000-04-05 3:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
Howdy.
This evening my wonderful X locked on me. I had to brutishly kill a
few processes and finally ended up taking down all of X. In the
process, I sent a SIGHUP to an xemacs session that was running gnus.
After I recovered, I started xemacs and gnus. I was prompted to
recover the auto-save file. Sure, why not?
Unfortunately, all of my groups where "0 * * nnfolder:group_name". When I
tried to select a group, it complained that there was no select method
for that group. Essentially I was locked out.
First, I copied off the .newsrc.eld file and started from scratch. I
added all of my groups that I originally had. They even reported the
correct number of messages.
When I went to select these, it took me in but only showed me one
message. Weird.
I consulted the .newsrc.eld file and discovered that each of my old-
now-newly added groups where "archive" (the last string in the group
list). Hrm. Didn't want to deal with that. However... why were they
added as archives when I was using them previously as nnfolder?
I copied back the original (defunct) .newsrc.eld. I noticed that for
the last element of the group list was "nnfolder:". Okay... sounds
good.
Yet, when I glimpsed the drafts folder entry I noticed the last list
element was (nndraft ""). Interesting. I changed all of the
"nnfolder:" references to (nnfolder "") and restarted gnus.
Everything _seems_ to work after complaining about a bad .newsrc.eld
file. One thing that I noticed (which I didn't think existed before)
was now that I have groups nnfolder+archive:group_name. This at a
cursory glance is 1:1 with my normal groups. I guess this was a side
effect of "bad" .newsrc.eld?
Anyway, my questions are:
a) Why were the group list elements ending in "nnfolder:"?
b) Should it be (nnfolder "") similar to the nndraft group?
c) What could have caused this problem and what is the _correct_
solution?
d) Why were the groups re-added as archive when I first tried to
reconstruct my setup?
Thanks,
cjr
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* Re: Weirdness ... virtually lost .newsrc.eld
2000-04-05 3:35 Weirdness ... virtually lost .newsrc.eld Chris Richards
@ 2000-04-05 9:02 ` Kai Großjohann
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From: Kai Großjohann @ 2000-04-05 9:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
Chris Richards <cjr@netpliance.net> writes:
> a) Why were the group list elements ending in "nnfolder:"?
> b) Should it be (nnfolder "") similar to the nndraft group?
Suppose you have server parameters, like this:
(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
'(nnfolder "" (some-parameter some-value)))
Suppose that you then change the value. Then what happens with all
the existing entries in .newsrc.eld which have the old value?
That's why it is better to have "nnfolder:" in there, I think, because
then Gnus will pick up the parameters from
gnus-secondary-select-methods.
kai
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