Re: [Pan-users] Reverting to last session's task list

[Michael A Chase]

On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 17:07:14 -0700 (PDT) Michael A Chase <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 16:48:53 -0700 Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun 20 Apr 2003 09:01, Michael A Chase posted as excerpted below:
> > > When I start Pan I often get a pop-up titled "Question" with the
> > > text "Pan appears to have crashed or been killed the last time it was
> > > run.  Do you want to revert to the last session's task list?".  This
> > > happens whether the last shutdown was normal or not.
> > >
> > > It appears that ~/.pan/data/tasks.xml is not always being removed
> > > during a normal shutdown.  I have been careful to make sure the task
> > > counter at the bottom of the window is 0 before I shutdown, but I
> have
> > > not always checked for tasks.xml before starting.  Naturally, now
> that
> > > I am, I haven't seen the pop-up again.
> > >
> > > OS: Redhat Linux 2.4.18-27.8.0
> > > Pan 0.13.93 from RPM
> > 
> > I've noticed that as well.  Occasionally the dialog will popup even
> > when all tasks were done the last time.  I haven't bothered to
> > investigate, but did figure it was due to the existence of that file
> > from following the list.
> >
> > I'm wondering if certain types of failed tasks are not removed from
> > the list properly..
> 
> That's possible.  One of the sites I get news from is frequently
> unresponsive.  I was always careful to delete the failed tasks from
> the task list though.
> 
> > I don't know that I've seen it on 0.13.94 yet, but then I didn't
> > switch to it immediately, either, as I was busy recovering from a
> > failed NVidia driver upgrade that hosed KDE, and haven't been on it
> > that long.
> 
> I've put a wrapper around pan to save tasks.xml if it is found at
> startup.  Naturally it hasn't happened since I added the wrapper.

Now I'm thoroughly confused.  My wrapper script should rename tasks.xml
if it finds it and I tested that by creating the file with touch.  I
just checked it again, the file got renamed so there was no tasks.xml,
but I still got the pop-up.  When I look in the source, it appears that
the only way to get the pop-up is to have at tasks.xml.  Could the file
be being created early in the start-up?  The next time I see the pop-up,
I'll look for ~/.pan/data/tasks.xml before I select an option.

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