On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, walt wrote: > On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 23:55:47 +0000, Duncan wrote: > >> walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted >> [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 >> 22:05:59 +0000: >> >>> On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:07:39 -0400, Bill Wright wrote: >>> >>>> I am new to Ubuntu I had PAN up and running, I don't know what >>>> happened but I can subscribe to a group request headers, then >>>> that's it. Nothing is downloaded, none of the message threads >>>> appear... > >>> You mentioned that pan worked perfectly, but only once. That >>> would make me suspect that something has gone wrong in your >>> ~/.pan2 directory. > >> This would appear to be another case of the bug I've mentioned >> several times now. It has hit me on some groups, but not all. I >> can confirm it's something local, that is, in the ~/.pan2 dir by >> default, but what? ... > > Yes, I should have mentioned before that the contents of Bill's > original ~/.pan2 directory could be very useful in making a > diagnosis -- assuming that starting over does fix the problem. > > Bill, if starting over does fix the problem then please don't delete > the old .pan2. Comparing the old with the new files may be the key.
This issue rings a bell with me too - I think the problem is silly numbers in the .newsrc file - at least on hand editing the newsrc file I found some, I reset the count to something more sensible and the groups then retrieved properly. Though I didn't find where the numbers came from... Robert -- La grenouille songe..dans son château d'eau Links and things http://rmstar.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
