From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 66675@debbugs.gnu.org, "Doolittle,
Edward" <edoolittle@firstnationsuniversity.ca>,
Andrew G Cohen <cohen@andy.bu.edu>
Subject: bug#66675: 29.1; Gnus hangs on startup fetching new news
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 07:00:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h6merecz.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837cnakg81.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:02:22 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: "Doolittle, Edward" <edoolittle@firstnationsuniversity.ca>
>> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 21:37:20 +0000
>>
>> Gnus worked very well for me until I decided to try Gnus Cloud to
>> synchronize news between two computers. I set up nnimap to point to my
>> iCloud mail imap account, started reading mail in Gnus, then set up the
>> Gnus cloud repository there. Everything worked as expected. I quit
>> Gnus multiple times and restarted and everything worked as expected.
>>
>> Then I quit emacs and restarted a few hours later, and found that Gnus
>> would hang on startup while checking for new news. I removed the nnimap
>> lines from init.el and restarted emacs, but it still hanged. I touched
>> .newsrc and Gnus started. I conclude that there is a problem with
>> .newsrc.eld but I don't understand the format well enough to do surgery
>> on it. My theory is that maybe there is some kind of security feature on
>> iCloud mail that is not allowing Gnus access after a time.
>>
>> For now I'm deactivating nnimap and restoring .newsrc.eld from backup
>> which should get me back to normal, but I would appreciate any guidance
>> you may have using Gnus cloud with iCloud.
>
> Eric and Andrew, could you please look into this?
Edward later wrote to say it was a config error, and I think you've
already closed the report!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-25 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-21 21:37 bug#66675: 29.1; Gnus hangs on startup fetching new news Doolittle, Edward
[not found] ` <handler.66675.B.169795626812295.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2023-10-23 13:46 ` bug#66675: Acknowledgement (29.1; Gnus hangs on startup fetching new news) Doolittle, Edward
2023-10-23 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-25 13:02 ` bug#66675: 29.1; Gnus hangs on startup fetching new news Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-25 14:00 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2023-10-25 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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