From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3038 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Haider Rizvi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Invalid read syntax: "Integer constant overflow in reader" Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:09:15 -0400 Organization: IBM Toronto Lab -- Workstation Database Message-ID: <81wubrr8j8.fsf@thinkhr1.torolab.ibm.com> References: <8165jbsoou.fsf@thinkhr1.torolab.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669264 17408 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:01:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:01:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:31:36 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!uninett.no!news.algonet.se!algonet!nntp.abs.net!ash.uu.net!an02.austin.ibm.com!ausnews.austin.ibm.com!hanover.torolab.ibm.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 9.26.185.205 Original-X-Trace: hanover.torolab.ibm.com 1064844559 7762 9.26.185.205 (29 Sep 2003 14:09:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@hanover.torolab.ibm.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:09:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, cygwin32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:E6zNtog+yIE1juObdmD6nrtahtA= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:3179 Original-Lines: 42 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 3179 Tue Jan 17 17:31:36 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:3038 Archived-At: Replying to myself :-) I resolved the problem by removing the cached articles and the whole /d/News/agent/nntp/dbtnews.torolab.ibm.com/comp/databases/ibm-db2/ directory. I don't know what could have caused it to start with. Haider Rizvi writes: > I am getting the following error while reading a newsgroup in gnus: > > Invalid read syntax: "Integer constant overflow in reader", "8387483875", 10 > > I searched on google but there are very few instances of this error, > some in Russian that I couldn't read and the others didn't have any > solution. Any thoughts? > > Environment: > > Gnus v5.10.1 > XEmacs 21.4 (patch 13) "Rational FORTRAN" [Lucid] (i686-pc-cygwin) of Sun May 25 2003 on TSUNAMI > 200 hanover.torolab.ibm.com InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.3.3 ready (posting ok). > > Stack trace: > > Signaling: (invalid-read-syntax "Integer constant overflow in reader" "8387483875" 10) > read(#) > nnheader-find-nov-line(83916) > gnus-agent-braid-nov("comp.databases.ibm-db2" (83916 83917 83918 83919 83920 83921 83938 83939 83940 83941 83942 83943 83944 83945 83946 83947 83948 83949 83950 83951) "/d/News/agent/nntp/dbtnews.torolab.ibm.com/comp/databases/ibm-db2/.overview") > gnus-agent-retrieve-headers((83916 83917 83918 83919 83920 83921 83922 83923 83924 83925 83926 83927 83928 83929 83930 83931 83932 83933 83934 83935 83936 83937 83938 83939 83940 83941 83942 83943 83944 83945 83946 83947 83948 83949 83950 83951) "comp.databases.ibm-db2" nil) > gnus-retrieve-headers((83916 83917 83918 83919 83920 83921 83922 83923 83924 83925 83926 83927 83928 83929 83930 83931 83932 83933 83934 83935 83936 83937 83938 83939 83940 83941 83942 83943 83944 83945 83946 83947 83948 83949 83950 83951) "comp.databases.ibm-db2" nil) > gnus-cache-retrieve-headers((83916 83917 83918 83919 83920 83921 83922 83923 83924 83925 83926 83927 83928 83929 83930 83931 83932 83933 83934 83935 83936 83937 83938 83939 83940 83941 83942 83943 83944 83945 83946 83947 83948 83949 83950 83951) "comp.databases.ibm-db2" nil) > gnus-retrieve-headers((83916 83917 83918 83919 83920 83921 83922 83923 83924 83925 83926 83927 83928 83929 83930 83931 83932 83933 83934 83935 83936 83937 83938 83939 83940 83941 83942 83943 83944 83945 83946 83947 83948 83949 83950 83951) "comp.databases.ibm-db2" nil) > gnus-fetch-headers((83916 83917 83918 83919 83920 83921 83922 83923 83924 83925 83926 83927 83928 83929 83930 83931 83932 83933 83934 83935 83936 83937 83938 83939 83940 83941 83942 83943 83944 83945 83946 83947 83948 83949 83950 83951)) > gnus-select-newsgroup("comp.databases.ibm-db2" nil nil) > gnus-summary-read-group-1("comp.databases.ibm-db2" nil nil nil nil nil) > gnus-summary-read-group("comp.databases.ibm-db2" nil nil nil nil nil nil) > gnus-group-read-group(nil) > call-interactively(gnus-group-read-group) -- Haider