[Pan-users] Re: Mismatched headers - Select a particular post, what appears is different post.

[Duncan]

Paul J. Dudley posted on Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:52:45 -0400 as excerpted:

> I have a problem whereby selecting a post according to its subject
> brings up an entirely different post ( different subject etc ). What
> should I do to resolve.

Not to be flippant, but upgrade, maybe?  Seriously, the pan 0.14 series 
is half a decade out of date, now, even if it is still listed as stable.  
That code is long abandoned, and while you are CERTAINLY welcome to use 
it as long as it continues to work (that's oft quoted as an advantage of 
open source) and I do still have a copy installed to help people on if 
necessary, there's nothing being done on it any more at all, and unless 
you have a specific reason to stay with the old version, I'd urge you to 
at least try the new one.  Even 0.133, the last official version out 
(with 0.90 starting a new series with a rewrite into C++, 0.14 was C), is 
over a year old now.

That said, check the list archives for the "Weird cache problem" thread 
back the end of August.  That particular problem is NOT just 0.14, and 
it's interesting you are seeing it on something that old, too.  That 
means there's something else going on.  Perhaps both you and Jim H (from 
the other thread) share a server, and it had some sort of corruption.

In that case, two possible conclusions came up.  One, someone else said 
they had a similar problem that went away after they rebooted, and two, 
as I said, even 0.133 is over a year old now, and upstream seems in 
hibernation, but there's a guy here, K. Haley, who did a git-clone of the 
upstream repository and has patched several bugs based on bugzilla patch 
submissions, and added experimental code for another couple bugs as 
well.  I suggested that if Jim was up to compiling his own copy (he said 
he's no stranger to such things), he might try that and see if it worked 
any better for him.

That's where the thread was left.  I don't know if it fixed the problem 
or if as I mentioned perhaps you guys share a server and it was a server 
issue of some kind, or what, but I do know that it can't be a quirk of 
the particular code itself, as with your report, it's in both the half-
decade-old code you're running and the year old code of 0.133 from 
upstream.  Whether it's in KH's git repo code hasn't been reported, but 
if it's happening as far removed as you're version, it's either something 
particularly characteristic of both the old and new pan code bases, or 
it's server related... or it could be simply very strange coincidence 
that you all three seemed to have the same hardware or whatever issue at 
the same time.

It'd be very interesting to see if say knode or thunderbird had the same 
issue against the same news server with the same posts.

BTW, I mentioned the archive.  One place you can find it is gmane.org 
either as a newsgroup (the way I participate on the list) or web based.  

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