Re: Can't access one newsgroup

Re: Can't access one newsgroup

[Kai Großjohann]

Peter Davis <pd@world.std.com> writes:

> I have one newsgroup I can't open.  No matter what I try (space,
> Enter, '- =', etc.), all I get is "no unread news".  I *know* there
> are new articles in there, because I can read them with slrn, XNews,
> and other readers.  But gnus simply refuses to let me in.
>
> I've tried gnus-group-clear-data, but I *still* can't open this group.

Does `G E' print something different for the failing group and some
other succeeding group?  (Except for the message numbers, of course.)

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Re: Can't access one newsgroup

[Peter Davis]

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Peter Davis <pd@world.std.com> writes:
>
>> and this one doesn't:
>>
>> ("rec.arts.comics.strips" 3
>>  ((1 . 12263)
>>   (55829 . 56328)))
>>
>>
>> We did have a server change at one point, but I did
>> gnus-groups-clear-data, plus the function that clears data for *all*
>> groups on a given server.  It looks to me like r.a.c.s still has very
>> high message numbers, but I don't know how to clear that.
>
> Hm.  You could replace ((1 . 12263) (55829 . 56328)) with () after G
> E, then hit C-c C-c, then see what happens.

Thanks.  I'll give it a try tonight.  I tried just replacing the
second two numbers, so it was

       ((1.12263
        (12264 . 12265))

but that did nothing, and when I checked again, the numbers had been
set back.

Isn't gnus-groups-clear-data supposed to take care of this? 

Thanks,

-pd


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Re: Can't access one newsgroup

[Kai Großjohann]

Peter Davis <pd@world.std.com> writes:

> Isn't gnus-groups-clear-data supposed to take care of this? 

I think it is supposed to do that.  Hm.

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Re: Can't access one newsgroup

[Peter Davis]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Peter Davis <pd@world.std.com> writes:
>
>> Isn't gnus-groups-clear-data supposed to take care of this? 
>
> It is.  It kinda sounds like you might have something else that's
> fiddling with the article ranges.  Do you have a cache for the
> group(s) in question?  Or an Agent hierarchy?

I may have had some articles cached at one time, but I thought they
got cleared when I reset all groups after ATTBI did its server
change.  I'm not sure what an Agent hierarchy is or how I would have
one. 

Thanks.

-pd


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                             Peter Davis
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Re: Can't access one newsgroup

[Victor S. Miller]

If your server is one that uses authinfo, you might try the following:
Put the following in you .emacs

(setq nntp-server-list-active-group nil)

I was having similar problems to you, and only that fixed it (this was
on giganews).  In particular, adding force yes to the right line of
the authinfo file didn't fix it.

Victor

Re: Can't access one newsgroup

[Peter Davis]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Subject: Re: Can't access one newsgroup
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 23:15:30 +0100
> Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen
> Mail-Copies-To: never
>
> Peter Davis <pd@world.std.com> writes:
>
>> I may have had some articles cached at one time, but I thought they
>> got cleared when I reset all groups after ATTBI did its server
>> change.
>
> That doesn't happen automatically -- you have to move it out of the
> way manually.

Hmmm.  What should I have done?

>> I'm not sure what an Agent hierarchy is or how I would have one.
>
> See what `gnus-agent-directory' points at and if there is something
> there.  If there isn't, you don't use the Agent.  :-)

As far as I know, I've never used the Agent.   Yet there's a directory
hierarchy here:

          ~/News/agent/nntp/netnews.attbi.com/agent.lib/active
                                                       /history
                                              comp/...
                                              gnu/...
                                              rec/...

etc.

Thanks,

-pd


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