Re: [Pan-users] Pan just keeps loading and loading...

[Ima Afrotrap]

On Thursday, 29 March 2012 23:29 Duncan wrote:
> Ima Afrotrap posted on Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:17:10 -0500 as excerpted:
> > My problem - I add my news server to pan and it of course starts to
> > fetch all the groups on that server. [...] I looked to see how far
> > along it had come and to my surprise it had 230,000 groups! My news
> > server does *NOT* have that many groups!
> > 
> > Just to check and make sure, I used knode and sure enough, it only got
> > 112,000, which is what I expected.
> > 
> > So, just for kicks and giggles, I started the fetch again in Pan and
> > let it go. It was at least 3 hours minimum and it was *still* fetching
> > groups and it had almosy a million fetched so far! It just wasn't going
> > to stop, so I stopped it and deleted that task and deleted that server.
> > 
> > I asked my ISP if they had another news server and they gave me a yes
> > and I tried that one. Same thing happened. Pan just kept fetching and
> > fetching with no end in sight.
> > 
> > What's really strange, another server, a private one (GRC.com server)
> > fetched just fine and was done in no time on Pan.
> > 
> > Why is Pan messing up like this? I'm using Slackware and openSUSE and
> > on openSUSE Pan works fine, yet on Slackware it only works partially.
> > Anyone have any ideas what's happening, why and any possible fixes? I
> > hate knode because after 12 years of using KDE they *still* haven't
> > figured out how to make it work with binaries and Yenc files and it's
> > slow compared to Pan.
> 
>
> Unfortunately you don't mention ANYTHING about what version of pan you're
> running

  Yeah, forgot that, sorry. I originally was using 0.134, same as is working 
correctly on my openSUSE hdd. I upgraded to 0.135 yesterday (before I read your 
reply) and the problem still exists. I have no need to upgrade on my openSUSE 
hdd as Pan works there.

> Right now, all that's only available with a git clone (from the main pan
> git repo as hosted by gnome) and build from sources

  The only place I've seen/found Pan is the rebelbase website, but it has 
instructions for the git thing. I guess I'll give that a try, but I'm going to 
bet that since this problem happens on two of the latest versions it's going to 
happen on the git version as well.

> FWIW, I've not seen anything like your problem reported with current git-
> pan or even 0.135, current release, but while I do track this list, I
> haven't yet gotten back to following pan's bugs at bugzilla like I used
> to, so it's possible I've missed it.  But definitely, I'd suggest
> upgrading to at least 0.135 and preferably build from git and try that.
> If the problem still exists there, then we need to worry, but with luck,
> it's gone now.

  I'll report back about it working or not on the git version.

  Thanks for the assistance, this is driving me nuts as I really, really use 
Pan 
a lot when I'm on my openSUSE hdd.



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