Slashdot RSS feed.

Slashdot RSS feed.

[Bruno Hertz]

Anybody else having problems with the Slashdot RSS feed
http://slashdot.org/rss/index.rss
today?

nnrss hangs with message "Saw end of trailers" and consumes almost
100% CPU here.

Happened just this afternoon. Their feed broke at some point, even
Firefox reported an error, but then they somehow fixed it. At least
for Firefox it's OK again.

In Emacs still no luck though (No Gnus v0.3).

Regards, Bruno.

Re: Slashdot RSS feed.

[David Hansen]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:22:07 +0200 Bruno Hertz wrote:

> Anybody else having problems with the Slashdot RSS feed
> http://slashdot.org/rss/index.rss
> today?
>
> nnrss hangs with message "Saw end of trailers" and consumes almost
> 100% CPU here.
>
> Happened just this afternoon. Their feed broke at some point, even
> Firefox reported an error, but then they somehow fixed it. At least
> for Firefox it's OK again.
>
> In Emacs still no luck though (No Gnus v0.3).

Do M-x toggle-debug-on-quit RET and then try to abort with C-g
and send the backtrace to the gnus developer list (M-x gnus-bug
RET should be fine).

David

Re: Slashdot RSS feed.

[Bruno Hertz]

David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:

> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:22:07 +0200 Bruno Hertz wrote:
>
>> Anybody else having problems with the Slashdot RSS feed
>> http://slashdot.org/rss/index.rss
>> today?
>>
>> nnrss hangs with message "Saw end of trailers" and consumes almost
>> 100% CPU here.
>>
>> Happened just this afternoon. Their feed broke at some point, even
>> Firefox reported an error, but then they somehow fixed it. At least
>> for Firefox it's OK again.
>>
>> In Emacs still no luck though (No Gnus v0.3).
>
> Do M-x toggle-debug-on-quit RET and then try to abort with C-g
> and send the backtrace to the gnus developer list (M-x gnus-bug
> RET should be fine).

Thanks David

I did some investigation myself already, posted the details to
gnus.ding without getting response and finally fixed it myself.

As it turned out, a temporarily bad Slashdot feed apparently hosed
News/rss/Slashdot.el, and nnrss (or whatever) couldn't cope with that.

Cleaning out the cruft in News/rss/nnrss.el (which has a tendency to
accumulate it btw., e.g. killing a nnrss group doesn't remove the feed
from that file) and moving Slashdot.el out of the way made Gnus happy
again.

Regards, Bruno.