Re: gnus hangs emacs at start

Re: gnus hangs emacs at start

[Dave Bennett]

"Haines Brown" <brownh@hartford-hwp.com> writes:

> A new install of RedHat 8.0, using gnus 5.9.0.
> 
>  in minibuffer appears: "loading gnus... done,'
> but emacs is completely hung and I have to kill its processes to escape.


I have this too on occasion.  What I've discovered about it is that
there seems to be some problem between processes inside of emacs.  If
I use festival from my customized emacs menu to have the computer read
some text to me, and then try to use gnus, it'll hang.  If I use gnus
and then later festival, it doesn't hang.

Festival starts a process that somehow interfers with gnus.  I've used
several other emacs subsystems without this problem so it must be
something in gnus.

I don't know if you're starting anything else, but I'd suspect the
issue is inside of gnus.

Re: gnus hangs emacs at start

[Haines Brown]

The problem disappeared. Thanks for the help. It seems something was
not quite right in my ~/.gnus and ~/authinfo files. When I rebuilt the
former, it worked, although the latter still not used (I'm assuming
gnus looks for it by default). Here it is:

machine news.snet.sbcglobal.net login hbrown password xxxxx
machine localhost login news password snet

The info in the first line is correct, and I assume the syntax is
also. The second line I don't understand, but worked before.

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Re: gnus hangs emacs at start

[Kai Großjohann]

Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com> writes:

> I find that starting .gnus, regardless of whether there are any gnus
> files in ~/ can randomly hang emacs. 
>
> My work-aroud is:
>
>         Mx toggle-debug-on-quit
>         C-g
>         c

If you have several servers configured and Gnus can't connect to one
of them, then you can use C-g to skip that server.

So maybe C-g works even without debugging turned on.

I suggest to (setq gnus-verbose 10 gnus-verbose-backends 10), then
you can better see what Gnus is doing.

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