Re: [Pan-users] Messed up .newsrc

[Andreas Nastke]

Duncan schrieb:
> Andrew Nile posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2014 17:01:34 +0100 as excerpted:
>
> > On 12 October 2014 04:35, Duncan
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Same iterator assertion error. =:^(
> > Hi Duncan,
> >
> > I had a quick look at this. When Pan starts it attempts to restore
> > whatever group was open last time. If the group is missing from the
> > group list (as is the case when the newsrc file is missing), Pan can't
> > select it in the list and it asserts.
> >
> > The attached patch adds a small check to ensure the specified group is
> > present. If not, it puts an error into the log instead of crashing.
>
> Thanks.  Seems to keep pan from crashing, indeed. =:^)
>
> The restore last viewed group and post feature is (relatively) new, and I 
> guess nobody tested killing newsrcs with it.  Hopefully Heinrich can 
> merge this patch right away as a missing newsrc triggering a crash, 
> before you can even re-fetch the group-list to get another one, isn't 
> very nice!
>
>
> Tho despite my seeing the ! even for subscribed groups in my normal 
> newsrc, when I deleted it and restarted pan, at least the subscribed 
> groups specific to that server (I tried the gmane server so basically all 
> of them) disappeared.  And while fetching the group list did put them 
> back in the other groups list, they didn't get moved back to subscribed.  
> I had to restore my old copy to get them back as subscribed.
>
> So a note to anyone trying this even after the patch.  With the patch, 
> killing the newsrc works to reset all groups, but be sure you have a list 
> of subscribed groups so you can resubscribe, as pan doesn't seem to use 
> the usual colon/exclamation mechanism to store that info, but whatever it 
> does use seems to get mixed up if the file is deleted and refetched.  So 
> have your list of subscribed groups made and ready to put in.

have a look at ${PAN_HOME}/groups

should contain header information files for each group ever subscribed to;
even if you unsubscribe explicitly, the file remains intact. so you can
're-subscribe' without loosing the last state of the group.



> Or just edit the file and delete the numbers.  That works too, without 
> screwing up the subscribed groups.

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