Re: [Pan-users] Messed up .newsrc

[Duncan]

Andrew Nile posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2014 17:01:34 +0100 as excerpted:

> On 12 October 2014 04:35, Duncan
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Same iterator assertion error. =:^(
> 
> Hi Duncan,
> 
> I had a quick look at this. When Pan starts it attempts to restore
> whatever group was open last time. If the group is missing from the
> group list (as is the case when the newsrc file is missing), Pan can't
> select it in the list and it asserts.
> 
> The attached patch adds a small check to ensure the specified group is
> present. If not, it puts an error into the log instead of crashing.

Thanks.  Seems to keep pan from crashing, indeed. =:^)

The restore last viewed group and post feature is (relatively) new, and I 
guess nobody tested killing newsrcs with it.  Hopefully Heinrich can 
merge this patch right away as a missing newsrc triggering a crash, 
before you can even re-fetch the group-list to get another one, isn't 
very nice!


Tho despite my seeing the ! even for subscribed groups in my normal 
newsrc, when I deleted it and restarted pan, at least the subscribed 
groups specific to that server (I tried the gmane server so basically all 
of them) disappeared.  And while fetching the group list did put them 
back in the other groups list, they didn't get moved back to subscribed.  
I had to restore my old copy to get them back as subscribed.

So a note to anyone trying this even after the patch.  With the patch, 
killing the newsrc works to reset all groups, but be sure you have a list 
of subscribed groups so you can resubscribe, as pan doesn't seem to use 
the usual colon/exclamation mechanism to store that info, but whatever it 
does use seems to get mixed up if the file is deleted and refetched.  So 
have your list of subscribed groups made and ready to put in.

Or just edit the file and delete the numbers.  That works too, without 
screwing up the subscribed groups.

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