From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
Cc: eric@ericabrahamsen.net, 28596@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28596: 26.0.60; [Gnus] Checking mail is no longer reliable and C-g no longer quits
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2017 19:40:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831skd110u.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmlt76uw.fsf@moondust.localdomain> (nljlistbox2@gmail.com)
> From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:27:35 -0400
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 28596@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> At 10:13 -0400 on Tuesday 2017-09-26, N. Jackson wrote:
> >
> > The problem can be easily seen in the *Server* buffer. All my
> > nntp servers are broken.
> >
> > - The nntp servers that are managed by the Agent are in an
> > "offline" state even though Gnus is currently plugged (and I
> > have a good Internet connection), and the `O', `C' and `R'
> > (open, close, and reset all) commands have not effect. (Toggling
> > the plugged/unplugged state a few times hasn't changed this
> > brokenness.)
> >
> > - The nntp servers that are not managed by the Agent are in a
> > "denied" state and the `O', `C' and `R' (open, close, and reset
> > all) commands have not effect.
>
> It almost seems as if Gnus is in an "unplugged" state even though
> in the mode line it says that it's "plugged". (Toggling the
> plugged/unplugged state so that the mode line says it's
> "unplugged" doesn't help though.)
>
> One reason why I think Gnus is actually "unplugged" is that when I
> enter a news group that is managed by the Agent when Gnus is
> "unplugged", the *Summary* buffer is displayed almost instantly.
> In contrast when Gnus is not in a "broken" state and is "plugged",
> loading the *Summary* buffer is slow as Gnus will retrieve headers
> over the Internet,
>
> A second reason why I think Gnus is actually "unplugged" is that
> there are lines in news group *Summary* buffers like
>
> - .│0.0k│1969-12-31 19:00│ ▣ Gnus Agent [Undownloaded article 218857]
>
> which I would normally only see when Gnus is "unplugged".
>
> I have now restarted Emacs to get Gnus back into a working state
> -- I have to get real work done. I will report more when I have
> time to investigate a "broken" instance of Gnus more thoroughly.
Any news on this? Is this problem still present in the Emacs 26.0.90
pretest?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-02 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-25 15:01 bug#28596: 26.0.60; [Gnus] Checking mail is no longer reliable and C-g no longer quits N. Jackson
2017-09-25 17:03 ` N. Jackson
2017-09-25 17:14 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-09-26 14:13 ` N. Jackson
2017-09-29 9:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 15:20 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-29 17:27 ` N. Jackson
2017-09-29 20:17 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-12-02 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-12-04 17:14 ` N. Jackson
2017-12-04 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-22 13:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-27 21:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <871sjfdaql.fsf_-_@moondust.localdomain>
2017-12-28 12:07 ` bug#28596: 26.0.60; Gnus gets into an ambiguous plugged/unplugged state that prevents retrieval of news Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-12-28 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-28 16:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-12-28 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-28 20:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-12-29 0:14 ` N. Jackson
2018-07-02 17:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-03 0:19 ` N. Jackson
2018-07-04 16:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-04 18:03 ` N. Jackson
2018-07-04 18:13 ` N. Jackson
2018-07-04 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-04 18:38 ` N. Jackson
2018-07-04 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-12 15:33 ` N. Jackson
2018-07-12 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 15:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-07-19 15:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-04 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-11 17:58 ` bug#28596: " N. Jackson
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