From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/55875 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: "Can't read partial active file" Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 12:38:42 -0500 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073669991 13911 80.91.224.253 (9 Jan 2004 17:39:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 17:39:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M4415@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jan 09 18:39:48 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 1Af0bs-0008SH-00 for ; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 18:39:48 +0100 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 1Af0bP-0003fk-00; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 11:39:19 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Af0bH-0003fe-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 11:39:11 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ADD33A006F for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 11:39:11 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Af0bG-0003ID-00 for ; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 18:39:10 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Af0bF-0003I5-00 for ; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 18:39:09 +0100 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Af0bF-0003aS-00 for ; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 18:39:09 +0100 Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:syMruXIMhCcECvaZrNDbVES5bSA= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55875 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55875 David Abrahams 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