"Willy Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Nate" == Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yesterday I updated to 2.2r2 and decided to give Xemacs and Gnus a > > try (I had been playing with Emacs 20.7 and Gnus 5.7 and it worked > > fine). The problem seems to be that Gnus is ignoring the > > .newsrc-dribble file and is reading the entire active file from my > > ISP's news server. > > > First I encountered this after loading Gnus 5.8.3 on Xemacs. I > > gathered there may be some incompatibility between the file written > > by 5.7 and 5.8.3, so I removed ~/.newsrc-dribble and restarted Gnus. > > It read the active file from the ISP and then gave me the short > > default group list. So far so good, so I selected my favorite > > groups and did some reading. I closed down Gnus and verified it had > > written the groups and the read article numbers to > > ~/.newsrc-dribble. > > Hm, this doesn't seem right. Should be #.newsrc-dribble#, and that > should be deleted after quitting Gnus. Gnus should save the groups > and read articles to the .newsrc and .newrc.eld files after quitting. > Also, my (2.2r2) Gnus version in Xemacs is 5.8.7.
You have 5.8.7? Did you use the XEmacs package management system to install it? My guess is that you did. Potato comes with 5.8.3-9 and, as far as I can tell, that hasn't changed with any updates, and I update the machine at least once a week. I've avoided using XEmacs' package management, as I'm afraid it'll cause a conflict with Debian package management. Can anyone tell me what the policy on this is? > > Now this morning I fired up Gnus and received the normal prompt: > > > Gnus auto-save file exists. Do you want to read it? (y or n) > > > So, I answered with a y and once again it began reading the entire > > active file from the ISP, apparently ignoring ~/.newsrc-dribble. I > > This is what I would try: > > If you have the ~/.newsrc and ~/.newsrc.eld files, you should delete > the ~/#.newsrc.dribble# file (when Gnus is not running), then start > Gnus again. See if that works. > > If that doesn't work, you might try posting to comp.emacs.xemacs for > more info/help. I'd agree with Willy on this. If you haven't customized too extensively you might also consider starting over from scratch and removing ~/.newsrc.eld and ~/.newsrc. Of course if you've done more than just subscribe to news groups, eg., set up mail groups, I'd post to comp.emacs.xemacs, or even gnu.emacs.gnus and ask what those folks think. Gary
