Re: timeout when fetching new posts...

[Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>]

Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:

> I tried to fetch old comp.lang.lisp posts, so when it asked how many
> headers to download, I typed the maximum (140,000+).  It appears my
> server had only 17,000+ available, so it didn't went very well.
> Anyways, I've removed ~/.newsrc and ~/.newsrc.eld, and since, I've got
> this strange problem.  For all the other newsgroups, everything works
> well.  For comp.lang.lisp, when I try to fetch the new posts, gnus
> (5.11) hangs (C-g is inoperative), and times out after 10 minutes.  It
> can be seen from the tcpdump, that the time out occurs after the
> answer from the server to the XOVER command sent by gnus.
>
> After the time out, it reconnects and can download the new posts
> without any problem, until the next time I type g to get the new new
> posts.

I had to remove these files:
$HOME/News/agent/nntp/$SERVER/comp/lang/lisp/{.agentview,.overview}
where gnus was spending all the time.

The "bug" being in gnus-agent-save-alist which cannot be interrupted
(C-g inneffective) while it's saving .agentview.


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