"arnuld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 02 May 2008 10:36:41 +0530:
> I am using PAN 0.14.2.91 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. It was working > fine from last one month but suddenly just yesterday it stopped fetching > any news. First, just letting you know that the pan 0.14.x series is deprecated and no longer considered supported. That is, the code is what it is, there's no further development or bugfixing happening on that series. Further, few to no regulars here use it anymore and have forgotten the details of how it worked. The recommendation is to upgrade to the 0.1xx series, 0.132 being the latest, available in source form or binary for many distributions. There are some changes it'll take some getting used to, but it does scale better (MUCH better!) particularly in binary groups, and has fully automated and transparent server support, now. Never-the-less, we still try our best to help those still using the old version, which you may indeed wish to stick to particularly if you don't do binaries or multiple servers. FWIW, I still have the old version installed here, just so I can open it and reference the menus, etc, if I need to. But I'm actually using only the newer version. However, it doesn't appear from the below that your problem is version or indeed pan specific. We'll see... > This is what I got from Log-Viewer: [from a fresh start, init messages snipped] > Fri, 02 May 2008 16:07:13 - News server connection count: 0 > Fri, 02 May 2008 16:07:13 - Loaded 5 groups for server "aioe" in 0.0 > seconds (5000 groups/sec) So starting with no open connections, load the groups locally, and... > Fri, 02 May 2008 16:07:13 - New connection 0x841a298 for news.aioe.org, > port 119 > Fri, 02 May 2008 16:07:14 - NNTP handshake failed: 500 Too long > connection > Fri, 02 May 2008 16:07:14 - Handshake failed: 500 Too long > connection > Fri, 02 May 2008 16:07:14 - News server connection count: 1 > Fri, 02 May 2008 16:07:14 - GLib - file giochannel.c: line 1000 > (g_io_channel_set_buffered): assertion `!channel->read_buf || > channel->read_buf->len == 0' failed > Fri, 02 May 2008 16:07:14 - GLib - file giochannel.c: line 1000 > (g_io_channel_set_buffered): assertion `!channel->read_buf || > channel->read_buf->len == 0' failed These glib assertions are apparently because pan doesn't expect the connection to fail as it did according to the log above, and when it tries to read the buffer on the failed connection, it can't. > Fri, 02 May 2008 16:07:14 - Unable to set group "comp.lang.c": > Fri, 02 May 2008 16:07:14 - News server connection count: 0 ... But thanks to decent programming, the assertions are handled, and pan recovers reasonably gracefully, under the circumstances, voiding the unexpectedly invalid connection, returning connection count to zero. > Fri, 02 May 2008 16:07:14 - New connection 0x8420980 for news.aioe.org, > port 119 Fri, 02 > May 2008 16:07:14 - NNTP handshake failed: 500 Too long connection [ Etc. snipped...] The cycle repeating as pan attempts to open connections for each of the other groups of the five. > I don't think the problem is with PAN because gnus (emacs newsreader) > has also stopped fetching news :( You are correct. According to the error, your news server is closing the connection immediately after it is opened, timing it out as if you had been inactive for however many minutes (commonly 15-ish) the timeout is supposed to be set for. So if the log is correct, as it would seem to be or you'd not have the same problem with gnus, the problem isn't your end, but the server. It's apparently misconfigured. I'd suggest contacting aioe.org support and seeing what they can do, but first... There's one more thing you can check. See if you can connect to other news servers. Some free ones you might try are msnews.com (microsoft groups, it used to be free at least years ago when I was on MS, I suppose it still is) and news.gmane.org. Actually, you might find gmane rather useful. It's a mailing list to news gateway, and is in fact how I participate on this list, seeing it as a newsgroup using pan. For details, see the web site at http://gmane.org . You'll almost certainly want to do so before trying to post to any gmane group, anyway, if you find it interesting and useful, but for our immediate purposes of testing just to make sure you can get news from /some/ news server, you can just setup a new news server pointed at news.gmane.org, and see if you can connect and download anything. If you can, from either msnews or gmane (or anyone else for that matter), then you know your client isn't screwed up and it's almost /certain/ to be a server problem. Of course, if you can't successfully connect to either msnews or gmane either, well, then you have a different problem we can try to work on. In any case, please let us know how things go. =8^) -- 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
