Re: [Pan-users] Aaarrrgghhh! Whahoppena Terminal??

[Rinaldi J. Montessi]

Beartooth wrote:
>       I sent off the post about the email problem being solved -- and 
> then I decided to email myself David Shochat's original solution, which I 
> had misunderstood. Telling it send didn't even launch Terminal.
> 
>       I've been trying ever since to get Pan to send anything to either 
> of my addresses.
> 
>       The setting in Pan's preferences is unchanged. Terminal is not 
> already running. I even closed the instance of Alpine running on this 
> machine. /home/btth/bin/alpine_helper.pl is there, and is right.
> 
>       I tried again just now; everything worked, and it sent what I 
> wanted, where I wanted. So I tried with the next post. Nothing. Terminal 
> didn't even launch.
> 
>       I have closed and re-opened Pan, several times. swva.net has been 
> up and running normally all day.
> 
>       I proofread the addresses I substitute for what Gmane puts into 
> the Reply to Author field *ver-rry* carefully -- and there have been no 
> bounces. 
> 
>       For a while, /home/btth/bin had an extra copy of alpine-helper, 
> with a tilde after it -- created by telling kwrite to save. I got rid of 
> that (which, btw, was openable with gedit, though the original is not), 
> and emptied Fedora's trash.
> 
>       And trying to email from  Pan is still a crapshoot -- with loaded 
> dice. What am I missing??

run ps auxw grep pine and ps auxw | grep perl

I suspect some artifact from one app or the other not properly terminating.

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