Dug through .pan2 and found the group-preferences.xml file to be corrupted. The article cache file had almost 1500 articles in it so they were deleted. I found the one the problems occurred with and the headers are correct including the PGP from the server as far as I can tell. Dumped a couple of other files that seemed questionable and cleaned up some more, restarting pan each time until finally group-preferences.xml is correct. Can't find anything untoward in the files now but I don't know enough to look elsewhere and I'm assuming all hidden files are shown.
Tnx again, Pete On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 20:31 +0000, Duncan wrote: > Pete Goudreau <gou...@earthlink.net> posted > 1241281696.6544.5.ca...@ubuntu.ubuntu-domain, excerpted below, on Sat, 02 > May 2009 11:28:16 -0500: > > > There is something odd happening on occasion which I can't repeat. I'll > > write a post and hit send only to get an error message that might say, > > "Master's in what?" or "Creative writing!" or just a caret and nothing > > at all. Saving the post as a draft, opening the post to respond to, > > cutting and pasting from the draft, and hitting send again doesn't > > eliminate the problem. Restarting Pan and repeating the above sequence > > works just fine. A bit strange. > > That is strange indeed, as I'm not sure those are from pan! > > Could you specify a bit more precisely where these errors are happening, > dialog box, in the pan log, in a terminal window that you've started pan > from, or what? What version of pan, and on what distribution? What > desktop environment (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, etc) do you run? What > newsgroup(s) (if it's not too sensitive to want to post the name in > public)? If you can point out specific messages, that may be helpful as > well. What news server are you using? > > Perhaps those messages are localized and you're translating them > differently than I'd expect? Or perhaps it's bits of quotes from the > posts you are replying to (or maybe something else you were working on)? > > There are two possibilities that sort of fit, but not quite. First, if a > particular message has an "illegal" character, say a non-UTF-8 binary > character in a post marked as charset UTF-8, I've seen pan fail to quote > it correctly, but that's when you hit the reply button/shortcut/menu- > item, not after you've finished writing your message and hit send, which > seems to be your case if I'm reading correctly. > > Second, and this sounds strange but your report is a strange report, > maybe you're seeing some sort of interaction with the select/paste > mechanism. That's why I asked if the text might be a fragment of > something else you had been working on. Note that the X select/paste > mechanism may be different than you are used to, given that you said > you're new to Linux. You can drag-select, then hit the middle mouse > button, and it should paste the selected content, possible from a > different application. But that doesn't quite match what you are > describing. Also, if you have some text selected in the message you're > replying to, pan will use that as a quote instead of quoting the whole > thing, but that doesn't sound quite like what you're talking about, > either. > > The other possibility I can think of, as I mentioned, is that you're mis- > translating (or maybe your distribution took some creative liberties with > the pan it ships) pan's normal error messages. If you try to top-post > instead of putting the quote at the top and replying under it, pan will > warn you, as it will if the message appears to be /all/ quote, no > original content (as if you hit reply and send accidently), or mostly > quote, very little new content. But the warning wording you quote > doesn't look like any I've ever seen from pan, here, which is why I asked > about distribution and desktop, thinking maybe it's some odd interaction > with something else, or strange error message translation. > > The other possibility is that it's an error message of some sort from the > server, which would explain why I don't recognize the pan error as it's > not from pan. But usually those are pretty standardized and have an > associated standard error number... unless of course some wise guy > decided to "simplify" the server errors in its config. > > The only other thing I can think of is that maybe your box is 0wn3d > (owned, by a cracker) or something, and it's the 133+ (r4(k3r (leet > cracker) playing games with you. But that hardly makes sense either, > mainly because most of those sorts of things are for the money these > days, and they're far more interested in staying stealthy and using your > machine as a spam or DDoS zombie than in playing 133+ mind games that'll > result in detection and loss of access. But really, it's too early to > jump to that conclusion yet as there's way more likely stuff to consider > first. But I will say I don't recognize those messages at all, making it > all too strange regardless of what's doing it. > _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
