Re: [Pan-users] Problems downloading binaries

[Orlok Nosferatu]

Hi,

In reply to the issues raised by Ron and Duncan some points:
1. Ron: Maybe you've got a permissions problem?
I would not know how to check that.Inside Pan? Looking at Pan's 
Preferences I can only see things like 'Preferred Applications' -
'Use Gnome Preferences' (Web and Mail) and Text - Gedit.

Duncan:
2. It might also be a full partition
Although my partition is alive (it expands and extracts on the go)
I still have 9GB, and seldom less then 4.

3. If you visit a pictures group, pan will normally display image 
attachments directly.  Does it continue to do so?
The last image that was displayed was the one with date stamp
'Mar 12 2:41 PM'. After that I only get replies to posts. 

4. Can you still download to cache?
I'm not sure on what you mean with this question. 
But I have increased the cache size to 20 MB in preferences.xml

Looking at the preferences, what does 
'<flag name='show-all-headers' value='false'/>' mean? Is this the
answer to my problem?

5 If you have access to nzb files, will the posts from them still 
download?
I have no problem downloading by nzb file. That's why my partition
is alive ;-P

6 I'd strongly suspect that an incompatible or buggy library update 
is causing the problem.  Do you perhaps have a record of what system 
updates you might have done at the time, that could have triggered the 
problem?
I do not keep a record of when what update was installed. But I usually
install the minute I see updates are ready to be installed. And, FWIW
- libgmime2.4, installed version 2.4.14-1+nmu1 
(libgmime2.4-cil, -cil-dev, -2, and -dev)
- libgmime-2.0.2a and -2.0.2-dev, installed version 2.2.22.5
A quick search did not give me the installation date.

As for entering a bug in Launchpad, it does not like my today:
'Invalid OpenID transaction'. Maybe I will try to enter it later.

My original question:
> I run Pan on Ubuntu (10.04.2 Lucid) and saw that as of March 11th I can
> not download binaries anymore. The number of posts I download dropped
> markedly. It seems I can only download replies to posts. It is not a
> problem of my newsprovider, as I can download the binaries using KNode.
> I upgraded my Pan version to 0.134, but I see my problem still persists.
> Next I quit Pan, moved the .pan2 directory, started Pan again, entered
> my account information, added my list of news groups, and still no joy.
> 
Answers:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pan-users/2011-04/msg00039.html
and
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pan-users/2011-04/msg00040.html

Orlok