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From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)
Subject: Re: 5.0.12 startup barfs if nntp server connection has problems
Date: 01 Dec 1995 04:57:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <w8sivk1cu6b.fsf@surt.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "M.N.Oakden"'s message of Thu, 30 Nov 1995 11:51:46 GMT

"M.N.Oakden" <oakden@hep.ph.liv.ac.uk> writes:

> What's going on here, ... what is making Gnus repeatedly open and
> close the server?
> 
> Signalling: (error "Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size")
>   nnheader-init-server-buffer()
>   nntp-open-server-internal("news.liverpool.ac.uk" "nntp")
>   nntp-open-server-semi-internal("news.liverpool.ac.uk" "nntp")
>   nntp-open-server("news.liverpool.ac.uk")
>   nntp-possibly-change-server(nil "news.liverpool.ac.uk")
>   nntp-close-server-internal("news.liverpool.ac.uk")

`nntp-close-server' calls `nntp-open-server' which calls
`nntp-close-server' ad nauseam.  This has been fixed in Gnus 5.1,
which is included in Emacs 19.30.  As has been suggested, I'll
probably be "unbundling" Gnus 5.1 and making it available separately. 

-- 
Home is where the cat is.


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1995-11-30 11:51 M.N.Oakden
1995-12-01  3:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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