Subject: bug#16906: 24.3.50; Gnus hangs on g command (gnus-group-get-news) after changing wireless access point

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:15:35 +1100

[email-masked] (N. Jackson) writes:

> At 11:52 +1100 on Tuesday 2016-02-09, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> Try setting debug-on-quit.  That should give you a backtrace when you
>> hit C-g and you can more clearly see where it's hanging...
>
> Okay, I set debug-on-quit and shifted my location. As before I needed
> three `C-g's to get Gnus to behave itself again. The three debugger
> outputs follow.
>
> After the first `C-g':
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (quit)
>   signal(quit nil)
>   nntp-with-open-group-function(nil "nntp.aioe.org" nil #[nil

Thanks; that confirms that it really is the NNTP connection.  Both the
IMAP and the NNTP connections need some kind of timeout mechanism to
determine when the lingering network connection is now dead and should
be reestablished. 

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