Re: Slashdot RSS feed.

[Bruno Hertz]

David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:

> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:22:07 +0200 Bruno Hertz wrote:
>
>> Anybody else having problems with the Slashdot RSS feed
>> http://slashdot.org/rss/index.rss
>> today?
>>
>> nnrss hangs with message "Saw end of trailers" and consumes almost
>> 100% CPU here.
>>
>> Happened just this afternoon. Their feed broke at some point, even
>> Firefox reported an error, but then they somehow fixed it. At least
>> for Firefox it's OK again.
>>
>> In Emacs still no luck though (No Gnus v0.3).
>
> Do M-x toggle-debug-on-quit RET and then try to abort with C-g
> and send the backtrace to the gnus developer list (M-x gnus-bug
> RET should be fine).

Thanks David

I did some investigation myself already, posted the details to
gnus.ding without getting response and finally fixed it myself.

As it turned out, a temporarily bad Slashdot feed apparently hosed
News/rss/Slashdot.el, and nnrss (or whatever) couldn't cope with that.

Cleaning out the cruft in News/rss/nnrss.el (which has a tendency to
accumulate it btw., e.g. killing a nnrss group doesn't remove the feed
from that file) and moving Slashdot.el out of the way made Gnus happy
again.

Regards, Bruno.