Re: [Pan-users] no longer get message bodies

[Duncan]

dchmelik-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w posted on Fri, 8 Mar 2024 19:44:16 -0800
as excerpted:

> Lately I could no longer get message headers (on
> news.eternal-september.org (ES) nor news.gmane.io) (and preferences.xml
> maybe got corrupted again (seems to happen regularly) this time in my ES
> password) but could after I restart, but still can't get message bodies
> even if I select 'read this article'.  The only change I made lately was
> increase article cache to 1Gb.

If you click on the log (button on the status bar, bottom right, or use 
the menu option), what does it say about the attempts?

What about tasks (bottom left)?  Does it stay at No Tasks when you try to 
get the message, or does it display the task momentarily?  If the latter, 
does it show the task if you open the task dialog, and what does it say is 
the status there?

Also, how what is the actual size of the files in the cache?  (On linux, 
du /path/to/cache, probably du ~/.pan/article-cache or the like, in a 
terminal window.)  

Talking about which... ensure that the cache dir exists and is readable/
writable and on *ix executable (aka enterable, for a directory) for your 
user.  Maybe it got deleted somehow and the recreation is screwed up due 
to filemask or some such, so the permissions are wrong.  (I actually had 
that happen once... when I had the filemask set unusually due to a 
security bug pan had had shortly before, so pan couldn't actually see 
inside the dir because it didn't have execute/enter permissions on it -- I 
wasn't thinking about it trying to recreate directories when I set the 
mask.)

Does manually deleting all the files (or the dir, but recreate the empty 
dir, you can of course back it up before deletion if you don't want to 
actually lose what's in the cache) in the cache help?

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