Your message dated Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:45:56 +0000 with message-id <e1vw1co-0007rt...@franck.debian.org> and subject line Bug#726308: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #354866, regarding gnus: Can't send large messages: hangs, or memory exhausted to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: gnus Version: 5.10.6-0.CVS.20050317-1 Severity: normal When I try to send a large message (around 10Mb), Gnus works hard for a while, then comes to a stop, using no CPU any more. The strace of this state looks like this, 2762 17:01:07 --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- 2762 17:01:07 gettimeofday({1141077667, 483234}, NULL) = 0 2762 17:01:07 gettimeofday({1141077667, 483291}, NULL) = 0 2762 17:01:07 setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 1000}}, NULL) = 0 2762 17:01:07 sigreturn() = ? (mask now [IO]) 2762 17:01:07 futex(0x4041d840, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) 2762 17:01:07 --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- 2762 17:01:07 gettimeofday({1141077667, 485221}, NULL) = 0 2762 17:01:07 gettimeofday({1141077667, 485275}, NULL) = 0 2762 17:01:07 setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 1000}}, NULL) = 0 2762 17:01:07 sigreturn() = ? (mask now [IO]) 2762 17:01:07 futex(0x4041d840, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) 2762 17:01:07 --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- ... and just keeps repeating. Using ps o pid,wchan=WCHAN-WITH-MORE-COLUMNS,command reveals a wchan of default_exec_domain. Sometimes emacs will say "Memory exhausted" (it does climb up into using an enormous amount of memory, maybe around 500Mb, I can't remember, certainly very much more than the message plus whatever Gnus was using before the send attempt) but more usually it just gets into a state where it's completely wedged - it won't even redraw the window or respond to SIGTERM. (I think the SIGALRM repeating stuff above is from that wedged state.) I've tried waiting over an hour for it to do anything further, and it doesn't. (The SMTP server is on the local network, on a fast machine, and accepts other large stuff from other MUAs very happily and quickly, so I doubt the problem's there. Nothing appears in the SMTP server logs about this Gnus message send attempt.) Sending smaller messages works just fine. I have no .emacs file. My .gnus.el is below. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages gnus depends on: ii emacs21 21.4a-1 The GNU Emacs editor ii make 3.80-9 The GNU version of the "make" util ii ucf 1.17 Update Configuration File: preserv -- debconf information: * gnus/upgrade/pre_5.9.0: true -- .gnus.el (setq user-mail-address "m...@ixod.org") (setq gnus-user-organization "none") (setq user-full-name "Mark T.B. Carroll") (setq gnus-subscribe-hierarchical-interactive t) (setq gnus-check-new-newsgroups 'ask-server) (setq gnus-save-killed-list nil) (setq gnus-activate-level gnus-level-subscribed) (setq gnus-activate-foreign-newsgroups gnus-level-subscribed) (setq gnus-extract-address-components 'mail-extract-address-components) (setq gnus-build-sparse-threads 'some) (setq gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups "") (setq gnus-agent-expire-days 30) (setq nnmail-expiry-wait 90) (setq message-send-mail-partially-limit nil) (setq gnus-treat-display-smileys nil) (setq mail-yank-prefix ">") (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "aetion" (nntp-address "bison.aetion.internal") (nntp-via-user-name "markc") (nntp-via-address "tara.aetion.com") (nntp-via-rlogin-command "ssh") (nntp-end-of-line "\n") (nntp-via-rlogin-command-switches ("-C" "-t" "-e" "none")) (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-via-rlogin-and-telnet))) (defun nntp-open-to-chiark (buffer) "Open a connection to chiark using AUTHINFO GENERIC." (let ((proc (start-process "nntpd" buffer "chiark-nntp"))) (set-buffer buffer) proc)) (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '( (nntp "osu-cse" (nntp-address "news.cse.ohio-state.edu") (nntp-via-user-name "carroll") (nntp-via-address "stdsun.cse.ohio-state.edu") (nntp-via-rlogin-command "ssh") (nntp-end-of-line "\n") (nntp-via-rlogin-command-switches ("-C" "-t" "-e" "none")) (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-via-rlogin-and-telnet)) (nntp "chiark" (nntp-end-of-line "\n") (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-to-chiark)) (nnml "mail"))) (setq gnus-spam-group "nnml+mail:mail.spam") (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "bison") (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) (setq mail-sources '((pop :server "bison" :user "markc" :password "********"))) ; eliminated for this bug report (setq message-subscribed-address-functions '(gnus-find-subscribed-addresses)) (setq gnus-confirm-treat-mail-like-news t) (setq nnmail-crosspost nil) (setq gnus-message-archive-group "nnml:mail.outgoing") (setq nnmail-split-methods '(("mail.spam" "^X-Spam-Level:.*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*") ("mail.mailman" "^Subject:.*mailing list memberships reminder") ("mail.lj" "^From:.*lj_not...@livejournal.com") ("mail.sawfish" "^List-Id:.*sawfish") ("mail.thinkpad" "^Sender:.*linux-thinkpad") ("mail.haskell" "^Sender:.*haskell") ("mail.lyx" "^List-Post:.*lyx-users") ("mail.madwifi" "^Sender:.*madwifi") ("mail.incoming" ""))) (setq gnus-parameters '(("mail.sawfish" (to-list . "sawfish-l...@gnome.org") (subscribed . t)) ("mail.thinkpad" (to-list . "linux-think...@linux-thinkpad.org") (subscribed . t)) ("mail.haskell" (subscribed . t)) ("mail.lyx" (to-list . "lyx-us...@lists.lyx.org") (subscribed . t)) ("mail.madwifi" (to-list . "madwifi-us...@lists.sourceforge.net") (subscribed . t)))) (add-hook 'gnus-select-article-hook 'gnus-agent-fetch-selected-article)
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 5.11+v0.10.dfsg-3+rm Dear submitter, as the package gnus has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see http://bugs.debian.org/726308 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Ansgar Burchardt (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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