Hi David,
I'm triaging Emacs bugs in Debian. This one is really old...
On 2001-12-31 13:54 +0100, David N.Welton wrote:
> Package: emacs21
> Version: 21.1-7
> Severity: normal
>
> gnus seems to have trouble reading my
>
> *: nndraft:drafts
>
> folder, which it didn't under emacs20. I get this error:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Couldn't activate group
> nndraft:drafts: Opened server using directory ~/News/drafts/")
> signal(error ("Couldn't activate group nndraft:drafts: Opened server
> using directory ~/News/drafts/"))
> error("Couldn't activate group %s: %s" "nndraft:drafts" "Opened
> server using directory ~/News/drafts/")
> (progn (when (equal major-mode ...) (kill-buffer ...)) (error
> "Couldn't activate group %s: %s" group (gnus-status-message group)))
> (or (and entry (not ...)) (gnus-activate-group group) (progn (when
> ... ...) (error "Couldn't activate group %s: %s" group ...)))
> (let* ((entry ...) (gnus-summary-ignore-duplicates ...) (info ...)
> articles fetched-articles cached) (unless (gnus-check-server ...)
> (error "Couldn't open server")) (or (and entry ...)
> (gnus-activate-group group) (progn ... ...)) (unless
> (gnus-request-group group t) (when ... ...) (error "Couldn't request
> group %s: %s" group ...)) (setq gnus-newsgroup-name group) (setq
> gnus-newsgroup-unselected nil) (setq gnus-newsgroup-unreads
> (gnus-list-of-unread-articles group))
> (gnus-summary-setup-default-charset) (when info
> (gnus-adjust-marked-articles info)) (when (gnus-virtual-group-p
> group) (setq cached gnus-newsgroup-cached)) (setq
> gnus-newsgroup-unreads (gnus-set-difference
> ... gnus-newsgroup-dormant)) (setq gnus-newsgroup-processable nil)
> (gnus-update-read-articles group gnus-newsgroup-unreads) (if (setq
> articles select-articles) (setq gnus-newsgroup-unselected ...) (setq
> articles ...)) (cond (... ...) (... nil) (t
> ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...)))
> gnus-select-newsgroup("nndraft:drafts" nil nil)
Are you still seeing this? I could imagine this would have been
reported more often if it were reproducible. Also, do you use the Gnus
version that comes with Emacs or a separately packaged Gnus?
Regards,
Sven
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