Re: [Pan-users] Problems downloading binaries

[Orlok Nosferatu]

Duncan,

First let me thank you for the time you take to help me.

My comments are inline.

 
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Duncan
  Sent: 04/13/11 02:22 PM
  To: address@hidden
  Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Problems downloading binaries
 
   
Orlok Nosferatu posted on Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:31:39 +0000 as excerpted:

> 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.

<SNIP>

> 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

If you can still download using pan via nzb file, pan can't be /too/ 
screwed up, as that indicates it can both download to cache, and decode 
and save the attachments.

Wait a minute... pan's own tasks file is an nzb file, tasks.nzb in pan's 
data dir. If nzb's are working, pan should be fine, but maybe it's own 
tasks.nzb got corrupted!

With pan shutdown, try deleting that file. Then open pan again and see if 
that fixed the problem. You'll lose any partially completed tasks that 
pan had saved, but if it solves your problem...

<comment===========================================>
I moved the old .pan2 directory and started anew. That would mean my 
tasks.nzb was started from scratch too, wouldn't it? Still I have problems
downloading attachments after March 12th.
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> 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.

FWIW, newer pan at least (0.134), uses gmime 2.4, not the older 2.0/2.2 
version. So that's the one you're looking for. I'm not sure which one 
0.133 used.

And FWIW, I have gmime 2.4.24 installed here. That's somewhat beyond your 
2.4.14 version you list, but pan /should/ work with either, especially if 
compiled against it.

Depending on how your install works there, you may well be able to check 
the dates on the actual file, probably located in /usr/lib (or possibly 
/usr/lib64 on a 64-bit install, the file will be named something like 
libgmime-2.4.so.2.4.14, probably with a symlink libgmime-2.4.so in the 
same dir, pointing at the specifically named version), to see when it was 
installed. Either the creation or modification dates will likely be the 
time installed. See if either one of them appears to correspond to the 
time you lost downloading ability.

<comment===========================================>
This is the contents of my /usr/lib directory:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    247 2010-01-27 02:45 gmimeConf.sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     25 2011-01-06 10:03 libakonadi-kmime.so.4 -> 
libakonadi-kmime.so.4.4.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142864 2010-12-17 02:08 libakonadi-kmime.so.4.4.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  22392 2010-11-02 19:00 libcupsmime.so.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 730764 2010-01-27 02:45 libgmime-2.0.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     22 2011-04-03 09:18 libgmime-2.0.so -> 
libgmime-2.0.so.2.2.22
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     22 2010-08-21 09:19 libgmime-2.0.so.2 -> 
libgmime-2.0.so.2.2.22
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 390960 2010-01-27 02:45 libgmime-2.0.so.2.2.22
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 762512 2010-04-13 18:31 libgmime-2.4.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     22 2011-04-09 13:33 libgmime-2.4.so -> 
libgmime-2.4.so.2.4.14
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     22 2010-08-19 09:56 libgmime-2.4.so.2 -> 
libgmime-2.4.so.2.4.14
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 411440 2010-04-13 18:31 libgmime-2.4.so.2.4.14
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     17 2011-01-06 10:03 libkmime.so.4 -> 
libkmime.so.4.4.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 469400 2010-12-17 02:08 libkmime.so.4.4.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 181208 2011-03-28 22:27 libsmime3.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2011-04-07 13:40 libsmime3.so.1d -> libsmime3.so

mime:
total 120
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root   4096 2010-08-19 09:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 240 root root 102400 2011-04-14 15:50 ..
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root    828 2010-01-16 01:05 debian-view
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   1016 2010-01-16 01:05 mailcap
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 2011-04-13 07:44 packages

The installations after March 12th are from April 3rd 
(libgmime-2.0.so -> libgmime-2.0.so.2.2.22), 9nd 
(libgmime-2.4.so -> libgmime-2.4.so.2.4.14)
and so on. 

I installed using 'Synaptic Package Manager'. Hence the different versions
in my library (2.0 and 2.4). Might it be possible that deinstalling and 
reinstalling my mime libraries solve my problem? Do you have a link to 
a manual describing the steps I need to do? (Deinstalling using the package
manager, installing ???)
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