From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1184 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Slass Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: gnus error Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 20:55:17 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667976 10101 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:39:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:39:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:45 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.he.net!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator2-maxim!news-in.spamkiller.net!usc.edu!attla2!ip.att.net!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc53.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Sender: mikesl@localhost.localdomain Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.228.19.12 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com Original-X-Trace: rwcrnsc53 1032296117 12.228.19.12 (Tue, 17 Sep 2002 20:55:17 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 20:55:17 GMT Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1324 Original-Lines: 84 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1324 Tue Jan 17 17:28:45 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1184 Archived-At: Hi: I periodically get this error when I hit "g" in the group buffer. After that, if I try again, gnus hangs on "Reading active file from netnews.attbi.com via nntp..." Any help will be welcome, and thank you. -Mike ------------------------------------------------------------ *Backtrace* Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Selecting deleted buffer") nntp-retrieve-groups(("comp.emacs" "gnu.emacs.gnus" "gnu.emacs.sources" "gnu.emacs.help") "netnews.attbi.com") gnus-retrieve-groups(("comp.emacs" "gnu.emacs.gnus" "gnu.emacs.sources" "gnu.emacs.help") (nntp "netnews.attbi.com")) gnus-read-active-file-2(("comp.emacs" "gnu.emacs.gnus" "gnu.emacs.sources" "gnu.emacs.help") (nntp "netnews.attbi.com")) gnus-read-active-file-1((nntp "netnews.attbi.com") nil) gnus-read-active-file() gnus-group-get-new-news(nil) call-interactively(gnus-group-get-new-news) recursive-edit() byte-code("" [debugger-buffer debugger-args noninteractive debugger-batch-max-lines middlestart buffer-read-only pop-to-buffer debugger-mode debugger-setup-buffer count-lines 2 "...\n" message buffer-string kill-emacs debug backtrace-debug 3 t debugger-reenable "" nil recursive-edit standard-output inhibit-trace] 3) ------------------------------------------------------------ Here are the relevant portions of my .gnus (please accept my apologies in advance if this is too much kack -- I'm not really sure what's relevant to this problem.) (setq user-mail-address "miknrene@drizzle.com" user-full-name "Michael Slass" gnus-home-directory "~/news/" gnus-startup-file "~/news/.newsrc" gnus-select-method '(nntp "netnews.attbi.com") gnus-user-full-name user-full-name gnus-user-from-line user-mail-address gnus-use-generic-from user-full-name gnus-local-organization "Not Listed" gnus-local-domain "drizzle.com") ;; POP and SMTP are local ports forwarded by SSH (outside emacs) ;; to my ISP's appropriate servers. (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnml "")) (setq mail-sources '((pop :server "localhost" :port "3110" :user "miknrene"))) (add-hook 'gnus-select-group-hook 'gnus-group-set-timestamp) ;; SMTP settings (require 'smtpmail) (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it smtpmail-smtp-server "localhost" smtpmail-smtp-service 3025 smtpmail-default-smtp-server smtpmail-smtp-server smtpmail-debug-info t) ;; incorporate new mail automatically (setq nnml-get-new-mail t) ;; keeping things clean (setq gnus-use-cache t) (setq mail-source-delete-incoming t) ;; read up on customizing topic mode (add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode) (setq gnus-novice-user nil) -- Mike Slass