Re: "Finding sort keys" error

[Josef Oswald]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Josef Oswald <gnus@chello.at> writes:
>
>> Has anybody else experienced this strange behavior:
>> One group ( comp.emacs.xemacs) I cant access any longer. 
>> Every time when I enter the group with RET I get the message 
>> Finding sort keys, and this goes on for a long time, until I hit C-g to
>> quit.
>
> Grepping for "Finding sort" doesn't give me any matches in the Gnus
> source code.
>
> Try `(setq debug-on-quit t)', and then `C-g' when it hangs.

Thanks for your reply :-) 

Funny thing is it is only _one_ news-group that i get this error 

this is what I get 

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (quit)
  looking-at("\\(0x\\)[0-9a-f]\\|\\(0\\)[0-7]")
  #[nil "Ä!.Å.ÆÇ!.'.È.ƒ.È.b.É.'.Ê.ƒ&.Ê.b.Ë.'.Ì.Í`.ÎÈ!.`){\n.7.\"*." [field 
case-fold-search base sort-numeric-base sort-skip-fields t looking-at 
"\\(0x\\)[0-9a-f]\\|\\(0\\)[0-7]" 1 16 2 8 nil string-to-number forward-sexp] 
4]()
  byte-code(". . ..`.\n..Å. .      `)B." [startkeyfun start endkeyfun 
endrecfun done t] 2)
  sort-build-lists(forward-line end-of-line #[nil 
"Ä!.Å.ÆÇ!.'.È.ƒ.È.b.É.'.Ê.ƒ&.Ê.b.Ë.'.Ì.Í`.ÎÈ!.`){\n.7.\"*." [field 
case-fold-search base sort-numeric-base sort-skip-fields t looking-at 
"\\(0x\\)[0-9a-f]\\|\\(0\\)[0-7]" 1 16 2 8 nil string-to-number forward-sexp] 
4] nil)
  sort-subr(nil forward-line end-of-line #[nil 
"Ä!.Å.ÆÇ!.'.È.ƒ.È.b.É.'.Ê.ƒ&.Ê.b.Ë.'.Ì.Í`.ÎÈ!.`){\n.7.\"*." [field 
case-fold-search base sort-numeric-base sort-skip-fields t looking-at 
"\\(0x\\)[0-9a-f]\\|\\(0\\)[0-7]" 1 16 2 8 nil string-to-number forward-sexp] 
4] nil)
  sort-fields-1(1 1 273875 #[nil 
"Ä!.Å.ÆÇ!.'.È.ƒ.È.b.É.'.Ê.ƒ&.Ê.b.Ë.'.Ì.Í`.ÎÈ!.`){\n.7.\"*." [field 
case-fold-search base sort-numeric-base sort-skip-fields t looking-at 
"\\(0x\\)[0-9a-f]\\|\\(0\\)[0-7]" 1 16 2 8 nil string-to-number forward-sexp] 
4] nil)
  sort-numeric-fields(1 1 273875)
  gnus-agent-check-overview-buffer()
  gnus-agent-retrieve-headers((39215 39216 39217 39218 39219 39220 39221 39222 
39223 39224 39225 39226 39227 39228 39229 39230 39231 39232 39233 39234 39235 
39236 39237 39238 39239 39240 39241 39242 39243 39244 39245 39246 39247 39248 
39249 39250 39251 39252 39253 39254 39255 39256 39257 39258 39259 39260 39261 
39262 39263 39264 ...) "comp.emacs.xemacs" nil)
  gnus-retrieve-headers((39215 39216 39217 39218 39219 39220 39221 39222 39223 
39224 39225 39226 39227 39228 39229 39230 39231 39232 39233 39234 39235 39236 
39237 39238 39239 39240 39241 39242 39243 39244 39245 39246 39247 39248 39249 
39250 39251 39252 39253 39254 39255 39256 39257 39258 39259 39260 39261 39262 
39263 39264 ...) "comp.emacs.xemacs" nil)
  gnus-cache-retrieve-headers((39215 39216 39217 39218 39219 39220 39221 39222 
39223 39224 39225 39226 39227 39228 39229 39230 39231 39232 39233 39234 39235 
39236 39237 39238 39239 39240 39241 39242 39243 39244 39245 39246 39247 39248 
39249 39250 39251 39252 39253 39254 39255 39256 39257 39258 39259 39260 39261 
39262 39263 39264 ...) "comp.emacs.xemacs" nil)
  gnus-retrieve-headers((39215 39216 39217 39218 39219 39220 39221 39222 39223 
39224 39225 39226 39227 39228 39229 39230 39231 39232 39233 39234 39235 39236 
39237 39238 39239 39240 39241 39242 39243 39244 39245 39246 39247 39248 39249 
39250 39251 39252 39253 39254 39255 39256 39257 39258 39259 39260 39261 39262 
39263 39264 ...) "comp.emacs.xemacs" nil)
  gnus-fetch-headers((39215 39216 39217 39218 39219 39220 39221 39222 39223 
39224 39225 39226 39227 39228 39229 39230 39231 39232 39233 39234 39235 39236 
39237 39238 39239 39240 39241 39242 39243 39244 39245 39246 39247 39248 39249 
39250 39251 39252 39253 39254 39255 39256 39257 39258 39259 39260 39261 39262 
39263 39264 ...))
  gnus-select-newsgroup("comp.emacs.xemacs" nil nil)
  gnus-summary-read-group-1("comp.emacs.xemacs" nil t nil nil nil)
  gnus-summary-read-group("comp.emacs.xemacs" nil t nil nil nil nil)
  gnus-group-read-group(nil t)
  gnus-group-select-group(nil)
  call-interactively(gnus-group-select-group)

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Josef Oswald also -> gnus@chello.at  :-) 
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