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is half a decade out of date, now, even if it is still listed as stable.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.