Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan gui application disappears

[Forever Kid]

Thanks much Duncan.  I will give it a try.   Please
excuse the html.  It should be off now.

Foreverkid

--- Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:

> Forever Kid <address@hidden> posted
>
address@hidden,
> excerpted below, on
> Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:10:43 -0800:
> 
> > Everyone is raving about the  all-new Yahoo!
> Mail.For some reason Pan
> > (0.14.2) disappears after a few hours.&nbsp; In
> other words the gui
> > application just goes away.&nbsp; Other
> applications running such as
> > firefox are unaffected.&nbsp; I am running gentoo
> v2.6.17-gentoo-r8 with
> > gnome (2.14.2).<br><br>I am having a heck of a
> time trying to
> > troubleshoot this.&nbsp; Any help would be greatly
> >
> appreciated.<br><br>Thanks,<br>foreverkid<br><p> 
> 
> First, I understand you might not be aware of it,
> but please kill the HTML
> when posting to this group. Pan doesn't do HTML as
> while it's fine on the
> web, in mail and news it's the tool of spammers and
> crackers, and the
> AOLer types that simply know no better.  Please
> honor the concept and at
> least turn it off when posting to the pan list (if
> you /must/ use it
> elsewhere).
> 
> Addressing your problem... You are apparently seeing
> a segfault for some
> reason. pan crashes and disappears.  If you run pan
> from a terminal
> window, you may see some sort of error message when
> it dies.  However, pan
> 0.14.x is now an abandoned development branch and
> won't see any further
> bug tracing or fixes, so unless you have some skill
> in the area of
> debugging and wish to try to fix it, it's simply not
> worth worrying about
> at this point.
> 
> pan 0.117 is the current beta tarball and ~arch
> level ebuild on Gentoo,
> which I also use (~amd64 here), and I've been
> running the weekly betas for
> some time so know they are relatively stable now. 
> I'd encourage you to
> upgrade to it.  Be aware, however, that you'll want
> to ensure you are
> using gcc 4.1.1 (latest stable) to compile new-pan
> (new-pan referring to
> any version beyond the first C++ release, 0.90, as I
> said, it's 0.117 now),
> as gcc 3.4.6 has a bug that causes it to require
> HUGE amounts of memory,
> nearly a gig on x86, well over a gig on amd64, to
> compile new-pan, at
> least if you attempt to use anything above -O1
> optimization.  4.1.1 is far
> more reasonable, a couple hundred MB only (amd64),
> tho that's bad enough.
> 
> Also be aware that pan 1.0, the first officially
> stable version of
> new-pan, is literally just around the corner -- it's
> likely this week. 
> Thus, expect to upgrade to it shortly, or simply
> wait for it if you prefer.
> 
> New-pan works somewhat differently than old-pan.  If
> you do binaries on
> either large groups or multiple servers, new-pan
> should be VASTLY better
> for you, as it scales VASTLY better in terms of
> resource usage, and
> automates multiple server handling now.  Take a look
> at the archives if
> you want more detail, as I've posted two quite
> detailed rundowns already
> in the last 24 hours or so, but there are some
> significant differences
> mainly related to the new multi-server handling that
> it'll take some
> getting used to if you've been running old-pan for
> awhile.
> 
> -- 
> Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
> and if you use the program, he is your master." 
> Richard Stallman
> 
> 
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