Hi,
Y'know I've been trying to stay current with the XQuartz project. They have been releasing betas for v2.7.2 -- and lately they included the new cairo-1.12.0 inside 2.7.2-beta4, which suddenly seems to fix all the anomalies with Pan I reported last year. :) <https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/pan-users/2011-05/msg00019.html> <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.user/12321> <news://news.gmane.org/453fc7b5-f410-497b-bc0a-7649b45ad...@hush.ai> I did not need to recompile anything here -- beta3 still showed the same whacky problems, yet beta4 with the new cairo suddenly showed those problems gone! Exact same Pan code & its other requisites etc. locally (but I did notice Pan takes a while to first start right-after the underlying XQuartz code has been updated, I believe this is due to the dynamic linking related jazz in OSX itself). Even the copy-&-paste highlighting artifacts are now looking as expected (which I could not show in the above posting). At least I presume it was the new cairo that fixed the problems. Several other projects were updated, too, which can be seen here: <http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.7.2> Now I am a bit happyier, but still kinda afraid to move onwards. ;) The glitch with Giganews, tho, is still bothering us, as I've asked HM for some help privately. Namely, I'd like to see the "hexdump -C" of the actual network packet(s) when we see this in the Pan error log: > Thu Mar 15 17:26:53 2012 - Error reading from news.giganews.com: Received > corrupted data Such glitches have been with GN ever since I first joined them many many years ago, and across several ISPs and news-reader apps etc., no matter if SSL is involved (even thru stunnel) or with just a plain straight connection. This occurs very randomly, a few times or so, day and night. It even occurs when I have Pan set off-line. No other Usenet server/company seems to do this (e.g. AW and Gmane do not do this, AFAICS). I'd like to get a handle on this glitch with GN and hopefully raise a proper support ticket with them. But we probably need to see the "guts" of the related network packet(s). It might be likely causing some other glitches with other F/OSS NNTP projects (such as the 'yencee' script I've mentioned in other earlier posts here or on pan-devel). Thanks for reading. -- _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
