>> I am using Pan for windows, version .122, >> two groups I follow with Pan (alt.binaries.howard-stern and >> alt.fan.howard-stern) >> >> After getting new headers, I had no trouble reading >> alt.binaries.howard-stern, but whenever I try to read >> alt.fan.howard-stern, Pan crashes. There are no error messages >>that I can see, it just closes, and when I start it up again, it has >>forgotten which messages I had read in alt.binaries.howard-stern before the >>crash.
>I can't help with the crash itself, but the forgetting, I can help >with. >Pan doesn't save the info for a group while you are working in it, only >when you switch groups or quit pan. It therefore appears that it dies >on the group switch before it does the save, possibly /doing/ the save, >rather than loading the new group. > >So... Either quit pan after the one group and restart, hopefully >getting a save and clean quit rather than a crash, or subscribe to some other >group you don't have to be interested in (preferably low volume), and switch >to it before attempting to switch to the crasher group. > >The idea is to separate the group save and get it done before trying to >switch to the crasher group. If it still crashes without saving the >one group, perhaps the crash is in trying to save the group rather than in >loading the new one. > Thanks, I tried this, and it is definitely crashing when switching to the one particular group, because the info for the other group was correct the next time I opened Pan, after doing a clean quit before trying the crashing group. >Also, have you tried loading the crasher group first? Does it crash >when you do so, before loading the other group and therefore before it has >anything to save in the first group when you switch? I just upgraded to .123, and it is still having a problem with the one group. I tried entering the group first thing, after starting Pan, and it still crashes. >Finally, this may or may not be related to the disappearing groups bug >others are seeing, that should be fixed in SVN now, and in 0.123, when >it's released, but I'd still recommend filing a bug on it. Include the >results of the above suggestions as well, hopefully pinning the problem >down a bit further when Charles starts trying to find it. >> I have Pan configured to use two servers, with one set as primary >>and the other as fallback. I have a HOME variable defined in my >> environment, and Pan uses %HOME%\.pan2 to keep its files in, >>instead of the .pan2 directory in the directory where pan.exe is located. >Using the $HOME (that's how it would be on *ix) variable for storing >the datafiles would be a (possibly undocumented) feature, not a bug, as it >normally points to the user's home dir on *ix. If it's a problem, >create a batch file (or whatever they call them on MSWormOS now) that either >clears the variable or sets it appropriately, before launching the real >pan executable. Another alternative is setting the $PAN_HOME variable >to a directory to use in place of $HOME/.pan2 (so it points to the dir to >use in place of .pan2, not the parent $HOME dir). You can then set your pan >shortcuts to launch the batch file rather than the real executable. I don't consider this to be a problem, I just included this information in case it might be contributing to the problem I am reporting. I created the %HOME% variable because I was using some other *nix programs that were ported to MS and they needed it. I had a slight panic the first time I started Pan after creating the variable, and finding that Pan had "forgotten" every setting, including server settings. I eventually found the new %HOME%\.pan2 directory, and was able to restore my old settings by moving the contents of the old .pan2 directory into the new one that Pan had created. >I'm not sure what the state of documentation is on the MS version, but >wherever it says where .pan2 is stored, you may wish to request that >be updated to mention the $HOME/%HOME% thing (and $PAN_HOME/%PAN_HOME% >as well) too. If that's in the readme shipping with pan, file a bug to >have it updated. If it's off Darren A's wiki, consider updating it there, >whatever. I didn't see a readme for the windows build. The only documentation I've found is this page: http://pan.rebelbase.com/manual/ , which isn't very helpful ;) I don't know who Darren A is, or where his wiki is. I guess I need to look around some more. Thanks for your attention to this matter. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
