Thanks much Duncan. I will give it a try. Please excuse the html. It should be off now.
Foreverkid --- Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forever Kid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], > excerpted below, on > Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:10:43 -0800: > > > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! > Mail.For some reason Pan > > (0.14.2) disappears after a few hours. In > other words the gui > > application just goes away. Other > applications running such as > > firefox are unaffected. I am running gentoo > v2.6.17-gentoo-r8 with > > gnome (2.14.2).<br><br>I am having a heck of a > time trying to > > troubleshoot this. Any help would be greatly > > > appreciated.<br><br>Thanks,<br>foreverkid<br><p> > > First, I understand you might not be aware of it, > but please kill the HTML > when posting to this group. Pan doesn't do HTML as > while it's fine on the > web, in mail and news it's the tool of spammers and > crackers, and the > AOLer types that simply know no better. Please > honor the concept and at > least turn it off when posting to the pan list (if > you /must/ use it > elsewhere). > > Addressing your problem... You are apparently seeing > a segfault for some > reason. pan crashes and disappears. If you run pan > from a terminal > window, you may see some sort of error message when > it dies. However, pan > 0.14.x is now an abandoned development branch and > won't see any further > bug tracing or fixes, so unless you have some skill > in the area of > debugging and wish to try to fix it, it's simply not > worth worrying about > at this point. > > pan 0.117 is the current beta tarball and ~arch > level ebuild on Gentoo, > which I also use (~amd64 here), and I've been > running the weekly betas for > some time so know they are relatively stable now. > I'd encourage you to > upgrade to it. Be aware, however, that you'll want > to ensure you are > using gcc 4.1.1 (latest stable) to compile new-pan > (new-pan referring to > any version beyond the first C++ release, 0.90, as I > said, it's 0.117 now), > as gcc 3.4.6 has a bug that causes it to require > HUGE amounts of memory, > nearly a gig on x86, well over a gig on amd64, to > compile new-pan, at > least if you attempt to use anything above -O1 > optimization. 4.1.1 is far > more reasonable, a couple hundred MB only (amd64), > tho that's bad enough. > > Also be aware that pan 1.0, the first officially > stable version of > new-pan, is literally just around the corner -- it's > likely this week. > Thus, expect to upgrade to it shortly, or simply > wait for it if you prefer. > > New-pan works somewhat differently than old-pan. If > you do binaries on > either large groups or multiple servers, new-pan > should be VASTLY better > for you, as it scales VASTLY better in terms of > resource usage, and > automates multiple server handling now. Take a look > at the archives if > you want more detail, as I've posted two quite > detailed rundowns already > in the last 24 hours or so, but there are some > significant differences > mainly related to the new multi-server handling that > it'll take some > getting used to if you've been running old-pan for > awhile. > > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." > Richard Stallman > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pan-users mailing list > Pan-users@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users > __________________________________________________________________________________________ Check out the New Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. (http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta) _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
