So I finally did that $50 1TB block thing from Astraweb I've been talking about on and off. The problem is that they had MUCH stricter password settings (limited to 12 alphanumeric chars, despite a FAQ entry saying be sure it's not easily guessed, thus stimulating an original password of something like 20 chars including symbols) after I signed up than the ones they actually let me sign up with, so I was getting invalid password errors when I tried to actually connect.
But it took me quite some time to figure out what was going on, as I was trying to download the group list, and pan was segfaulting on the invalid password result, not giving it a chance to be logged or anything! Since I don't update the group list very often, and probably others don't either, I initially thought a segfault had either slipped into that. But I remembered the ngrep mentioned here a few days ago and took it for a spin, and the problem was pretty obvious when I saw the 502 invalid password error that pan couldn't give me as it was busy segfaulting! So, please fix the authentication so it doesn't segfault when it gets a 502 auth invalid error code. Thanks. (Meanwhile, fixing that static mutex thing would be nice, too. I'm dumbly patching out the static for now, but I guess that's the wrong patch from what I've read right here, and I was actually wondering if something with that might have been triggering the crash, before I found out what it was.) Now that I have a reasonable binary paid account... with authentication even, thus the problem above... I can actually exercise more of git-pan's new code. =:^) -- 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 https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
