* bug#5656: 23.1; nntp-marks-file-name is reset to nil and causes "IO error reading [...]: Is a directory"
@ 2010-02-28 9:46 Teemu Likonen
2010-02-28 10:55 ` Andreas Schwab
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Teemu Likonen @ 2010-02-28 9:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 5656
Using Gnus agent is not exactly a pleasant experience. I have pretty
much the default settings and all my nntp servers are agentized. Now, in
the Group buffer I go plugged (Jj), check new news (g), download them
(Js) and go unplugged (Jj) again. Good, so far.
Then I enter some group and read news. When exiting from the Summary
buffer Gnus gives me ugly error messages (see below). I answered "yes"
to the both questions and got back to Group buffer.
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Error reading nntp marks file
/home/dtw/News/marks/news.inet.fi/comp/os/linux/misc/ ((error IO error
reading /home/dtw/News/marks/news.inet.fi/comp/os/linux/misc/: Is a
directory)). Continuing will use marks from .newsrc.eld.
Continue? (yes or no)
Could not write to /home/dtw/News/marks/news.inet.fi/comp/os/linux/misc/
((file-error Opening output file is a directory
/home/dtw/News/marks/news.inet.fi/comp/os/linux/misc/)).
Continue? (yes or no)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
The error happens in file lisp/gnus/nntp.el, function nntp-open-marks
and form (condition-case ...).
The reason for this error is that variable nntp-marks-file-name is nil.
It _should_ be ".marks" but something sets it to nil when I go unplugged
with Jj (gnus-agent-toggle-plugged) command. Since the variable is nil
function nntp-group-pathname doesn't return complete path with filename
but only the directory name, hence the error in trying to read the file:
"error IO error reading [...]: Is a directory".
So there's a bug somewhere. Who is setting nntp-marks-file-name to nil
and why?
Below is my work-around which automatically sets the file name back to
".marks":
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(add-hook 'gnus-agent-unplugged-hook
#'(lambda ()
(setq nntp-marks-file-name ".marks")))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread* bug#5656: 23.1; nntp-marks-file-name is reset to nil and causes "IO error reading [...]: Is a directory"
2010-02-28 9:46 bug#5656: 23.1; nntp-marks-file-name is reset to nil and causes "IO error reading [...]: Is a directory" Teemu Likonen
@ 2010-02-28 10:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-02-28 11:27 ` Teemu Likonen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Andreas Schwab @ 2010-02-28 10:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Teemu Likonen; +Cc: 5656
Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:
> So there's a bug somewhere. Who is setting nntp-marks-file-name to nil
> and why?
nntp-marks-file-name is a backend variable. Look in
nnoo-definition-alist whether it is modified by some backend.
Andreas.
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* bug#5656: 23.1; nntp-marks-file-name is reset to nil and causes "IO error reading [...]: Is a directory"
2010-02-28 10:55 ` Andreas Schwab
@ 2010-02-28 11:27 ` Teemu Likonen
2010-09-07 23:12 ` Glenn Morris
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Teemu Likonen @ 2010-02-28 11:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andreas Schwab; +Cc: 5656
* 2010-02-28 11:55 (+0100), Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:
>> So there's a bug somewhere. Who is setting nntp-marks-file-name to
>> nil and why?
>
> nntp-marks-file-name is a backend variable. Look in
> nnoo-definition-alist whether it is modified by some backend.
In nnoo-definition-alist there is this:
(nntp nil
(...
(nntp-marks-file-name . ".marks")
...))
The variable is not mentioned in any other parts of
nnoo-definition-alist. Still nntp-marks-file-name gets set to nil and I
get the error unless I use the work-around hook which I described in the
original report.
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