Ron Blizzard posted on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:49:24 -0600 as excerpted: > I don't know what I've done, but last night I ran Pan and was greeted > with a "Welcome to Pan" dialogue -- and "first you need to set up a > server." Brand new, like I've never used Pan. But I've been using Pan on > this VectorLinux machine for over two months and would just as soon not > rebuild my killfiles, etc. (Not that it would be that big of a deal, I > only use two newsgroups.) But I still want to know what happened, if > possible. > > In my home directory I've still got the ".pan" directory and, as far as > I can tell, all the information is still there. How do I get Pan to > "see" my user information? And what do I do to get it *not* to see this > information? > > Thanks for any pointers.
What version of pan, and is this a machine that you've been using for awhile, or a home dir that you copied from your old machine? I ask because pan hasn't used the .pan dir by default for quite some time, since the old and officially unsupported for years C based 0.14.x series. Newer pan (from the C++ 0.90 rewrite, which is like, half a decade old now, so it's not /that/ new), uses the ~/.pan2 dir by default, altho (with 0.90+) you can set an export the PAN_HOME environmental variable to point to your location of choice, starting pan with that in the environment, if you want to override the default. So assuming you aren't exporting PAN_HOME to change it (and assuming your distribution doesn't change it via distribution patch), you're either using a very very old pan, or that .pan dir is cruft left around from when you were, and you really did lose the .pan2 dir. If you lost the .pan2 directory, it's likely due to some filesystem or hardware error. You didn't mention what filesystem you use either, or the kernel version or anything... but if you do an fsck, you might have the missing dir show up in lost&found, at the root of whatever partition your home dir is on, possibly with a different name if the name was lost in the corruption as well. If you're really using an old enough pan that the .pan dir is valid... well, I did keep an old pan version around for answering questions on it for years, but decided to clean it up, a couple months ago or so. I think I was one of the last regulars here with it still installed, so I doubt you'll have much luck with specifics. While there were similarities in file format, they're not generally compatible, thus the use of different data directories. But certainly I and I expect others will certainly help when we can. Perhaps it's time you upgraded to something semi-modern, like pan-0.133 (itself over a year old), or even pull from the git sources either at gnome, or better yet, khaley's repository, and compile from them. -- 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
