Re: always need to run gnus twice

[Art Werschulz]

Hi.

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:13:28 -0400 Art Werschulz <agw@dsm.fordham.edu> wrote: 
>
> AW> Hi all.
> AW> Using the following:
> AW> (*) version 23.1.1 of emacs on two Linuxes (Fedora and Ubuntu) and on
> AW>     Mac OS X
> AW> (*) eternal-september.org as my newsfeed
>
> AW> gnus runs perfectly under Ubuntu and Mac OS X.
>
> AW> However under Fedora 12, I need to run gnus twice.  In other words, I
> AW> fire up gnus, which tells me that there is no unread news.  I then fire
> AW> up gnus a second time, and then gnus finds the unread news articles.
>
> AW> This problem only started happening when I moved from another news
> AW> server to eternal-september.
>
> AW> Any idea why this is happening?  If so, how to fix.
>
> I haven't seen this.  It may be a byte compilation issue since you say
> the Gnus code and Emacs are the same.  Can you check the versions?

What's the best way to do this?  

Extra data point: If I launch a subsequent gnus session within the same
emacs session, the expected articles appear.  IOW, this only seems to
happen with the first launch of gnus from within a given emacs session.

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