From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Gnus problems Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:04:53 +1100 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87zmjxjtju.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142064337 6846 80.91.229.2 (11 Mar 2006 08:05:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 08:05:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 11 09:05:34 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FHz6P-0007Z6-JB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:05:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FHz6O-00035h-MX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 03:05:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!tethys.csu.net!newshub.sdsu.edu!sn-xt-sjc-02!sn-xt-sjc-01!sn-xt-sjc-07!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GtOGE+Grm1CLCNwOl4wzrY3/sws= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 55 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:138090 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:33714 Archived-At: Hi All, my ISP has recently changed their news server and now I cannot get gnus to work. I've tried both the gnus which comes with emacs 21.4 and with the later 'No Gnus v0.4'. This is all on a debian etch (testing) system. Prior to the ISP changing news server, all worked fine. I believe previously they were running dnews. Now I'm not sure, but have noticed the real name of the news server is now pnews, so its possible they are running pnews. I have totally stripped out all my previous gnus configuration settings and removed ~/News, .newsrc and .newsrc.eld. So essentially, starting with a clean slate. The problem is with the 'native' default method. This is set to (nntp "news.internode.on.net") When I start gnus, it fetches the active file from the remote news server no problems. However, there are no zombie or killed groups as the manual indicates should be the case. It appears gnus is unable to determine new groups. I can subscribe to a group using U and entering the group name. Gnus is aware of the group and can even perform auto-completion of the name when I hit tab. However, once I've subscribed to the group, hitting g to get new news tells me there is no new news. I know this is incorrect as the groups I've tried to subscribe to have reasonably high numbers of posts and as this is a first time subscription, the norm would be to be told there are in fact thousands of unread 'new' news articles in the group. Then it gets weirder - if I hit M-g to check for new news just for a single group, it comes back and lists all the available unread items in that group. So, M-g works, but g does not. If I subscribe to the same group using the foreign group add function G m, the group is subscribed and when I hit g, it tells me how many unread articles are available. This is subscribing to the group using my ISPs news server as the foreign server. So, effectively, its using the same method (i.e. (nntp "news.internode.on.net") as my 'native' default method set in gnus-select-method. So, what I'm trying to work out is why the native method is unable to get the list of available articles when using g. I've checked things like group levels and default select level and all seems good (defult is 3 for subscribed groups and 4 for default select). I've even tried using g with a C-u arguement of 4 and greater, but no diffeence. Anywone come across anything similar or have any hints on where I can search for some clues? TIA Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au