From: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>
Subject: Re: "Can't read partial active file"
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 12:38:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <zncxrpi5.fsf@boost-consulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ptdtqgfk.fsf@boost-consulting.com>
David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:
> After updating Gnus from CVS this morning and byte-recompiling it with
> Gnu Emacs, when I start it up I get the following sequence of messages
> in my *messages* buffer:
>
> Compiling format specs...
> Compiling user specs...done
> Reading c:/cygwin/home/dave/.newsrc.eld...
> Reading active file from www.stlport.com via nnimap...
> Cannot read partial active file from nnimap server.
> Reading active file from news.rcn.com via nntp...
> Opening nntp server on news.rcn.com...done
> Cannot read partial active file from nntp server.
> Reading active file from news.gmane.org via nntp...
> Opening nntp server on news.gmane.org...done
> Cannot read partial active file from nntp server.
> Checking new news...done
> No gnus is bad news
> No more unread newsgroups
>
> And the groups display comes up looking wrong (lots of *s in the
> left-hand column). Any clues?
Note: this makes Gnus completely unusable under Gnu emacs; I can't
enter any groups. It works great under XEmacs, though. What could
the problem be?
--
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-09 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-09 15:39 David Abrahams
2004-01-09 17:38 ` David Abrahams [this message]
2004-01-09 20:50 ` Steve Youngs
2004-01-10 1:36 ` David Abrahams
2004-01-10 2:10 ` Jesper Harder
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