gnus-group.el: Make error reporting when doing `M-g' work again

[gnu-emacs] / lisp / gnus / gnus-start.el

diff --git a/lisp/gnus/gnus-start.el b/lisp/gnus/gnus-start.el
index 07409162ab8f4a2f092cb6b23b88b5a9d15e53e5..9b1d5681e6ce9ed4f3156cd4b200ecea469c7315 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/gnus/gnus-start.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/gnus-start.el
@@ -1714,6 +1714,21 @@ backend check whether the group actually exists."
          (with-current-buffer nntp-server-buffer
            (gnus-read-active-file-1 method nil)))))
 
+    ;; Clear out all the early methods.
+    (dolist (elem type-cache)
+      (destructuring-bind (method method-type infos dummy) elem
+       (when (and method
+                  infos
+                  (gnus-check-backend-function
+                   'retrieve-group-data-early (car method))
+                  (not (gnus-method-denied-p method)))
+         (when (ignore-errors (gnus-get-function method 'open-server))
+           (unless (gnus-server-opened method)
+             (gnus-open-server method))
+           (when (gnus-server-opened method)
+             ;; Just mark this server as "cleared".
+             (gnus-retrieve-group-data-early method nil))))))
+
     ;; Start early async retrieval of data.
     (let ((done-methods nil)
          sanity-spec)