Re: [Pan-users] Newbie problems with Pan v0.106

[Phillip Pi]

On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 08:54:15PM -0700, Phillip Pi wrote:
> > > 1. I can't seem to connect to Adelphia's news server (news.adelphia.net). 
> > > Tin and Old Pan 
> > > worked. Here's the log:
> > > Sun Aug  6 20:01:19 2006 - Pan 0.106 started
> > > Sun Aug  6 20:01:19 2006 - Expired old score from /home/ant/News/Score, 
> > > line 7
> > > Sun Aug  6 20:01:19 2006 - Expired old score from /home/ant/News/Score, 
> > > line 18
> > > Sun Aug  6 20:01:19 2006 - Expired old score from /home/ant/News/Score, 
> > > line 29
> > > Sun Aug  6 20:01:19 2006 - Read 3 scoring rules in 2 sections from 
> > > "/home/ant/News/Score"
> > > Sun Aug  6 20:01:19 2006 - Error opening file 
> > > "/home/ant/.pan2/newsgroups.ynm" No such file or directory
> > > Sun Aug  6 20:01:19 2006 - Error opening file 
> > > "/home/ant/.pan2/newsgroups.dsc" No such file or directory
> > > Sun Aug  6 20:01:19 2006 - Loaded data backend in 0.0 seconds
> > 
> > That is really odd, this is with a fresh .pan2?  If you run pan --debug
> > do you see anything more detailed?
> 
> Yep, clean. I got the startup wizard after upgrading and starting Pan. Here's 
> the debug log
> by running Pan and loading two newsgroups (alt.ascii-art and a busy binary 
> newsgroup) from
> subscribed newsgroup list.
> 
> $ pan --debug
> (article-cache.cc:175:ArticleCache) loaded 0 articles into cache from 
> /home/ant/.pan2/article-cache
> (gnksa.cc:625:do_check_from) From []
> (gnksa.cc:631:do_check_from) Name []
> (gnksa.cc:632:do_check_from) Addr []
> (gnksa.cc:638:do_check_from) GNKSA [102]
> (my-tree.cc:147:set_filter) after adding passing articles, I've got 0.
> (my-tree.cc:190:remove_articles) I have 0 articles and am about to remove 0 
> of them.
> (my-tree.cc:259:remove_articles) I now have 0 articles left
> (my-tree.cc:155:set_filter) now I'm done, and I have 0 articles.
> (gnksa.cc:625:do_check_from) From []
> (gnksa.cc:631:do_check_from) Name []
> (gnksa.cc:632:do_check_from) Addr []
> (gnksa.cc:638:do_check_from) GNKSA [102]
> (my-tree.cc:147:set_filter) after adding passing articles, I've got 0.
> (my-tree.cc:190:remove_articles) I have 0 articles and am about to remove 0 
> of them.
> (my-tree.cc:259:remove_articles) I now have 0 articles left
> (my-tree.cc:155:set_filter) now I'm done, and I have 0 articles.
> (gnksa.cc:625:do_check_from) From []
> (gnksa.cc:631:do_check_from) Name []
> (gnksa.cc:632:do_check_from) Addr []
> (gnksa.cc:638:do_check_from) GNKSA [102]

Here's a refresh group list after I relaunched Pan:
$ pan --debug
(article-cache.cc:175:ArticleCache) loaded 0 articles into cache from 
/home/ant/.pan2/article-cache
(gnksa.cc:625:do_check_from) From []
(gnksa.cc:631:do_check_from) Name []
(gnksa.cc:632:do_check_from) Addr []
(gnksa.cc:638:do_check_from) GNKSA [102]
(queue.cc:151:process_task) in process_task with a task of type GROUPS
(queue.cc:183:process_task) need nntp
(queue.cc:151:process_task) in process_task with a task of type GROUPS
(queue.cc:183:process_task) need nntp
(queue.cc:151:process_task) in process_task with a task of type GROUPS
(queue.cc:183:process_task) need nntp
(queue.cc:151:process_task) in process_task with a task of type GROUPS
(queue.cc:183:process_task) need nntp
See how it got stuck and loops? :(


> > > 2. I see a list of my subscribed newsgroup imported from .newsrc. Where 
> > > are my unsubscribed 
> > > ones and how do I list ALL newsgroups? In old Pan, I could select 
> > > subscribed, unsubscribed, 
> > > and all if I remember correctly.
> 
> > If you look just below your list of subscribed groups you will see a
> > section labeled Other Groups.  Expand that and all the groups will be there
> 
> OK, I see that but I only see nine other newsgroups. It seems like those are 
> the groups I 
> recently unsubscribed over the last month or so. I also tried refreshing 
> group list, but 
> that failed (didn't do anything).
> 
> 
> > > 3. In the newsgroup list, how do I multiple highlight the newsgroups and 
> > > right click to 
> > > download new headers? I can't do that anymore with v0.106. I have to do 
> > > one at a time. :(
> > >
> > 
> > Unfortunately you cannot do this right now, the change to make this
> > possible is non-trivial so I think it was pushed to 1.1.  You can do a
> > get new headers in subscribed groups, but that is all at this time.
> 
> Rats. Hmm, I think I am going to keep using the old version for now because 
> of the issues I 
> have run into.

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