From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4198 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: 5.0.12 startup barfs if nntp server connection has problems Date: 01 Dec 1995 04:57:48 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: <9511301151.AA15184@vo6.ph.liv.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144980 28841 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:16:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:16:20 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA29615 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 20:37:06 -0800 Original-Received: from surt.ifi.uio.no (4867@surt.ifi.uio.no [129.240.76.2]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 04:57:51 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by surt.ifi.uio.no ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 04:57:49 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: "M.N.Oakden"'s message of Thu, 30 Nov 1995 11:51:46 GMT Original-Lines: 20 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4198 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4198 "M.N.Oakden" 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.