Re: [Pan-users] problem using 0.135? on Win7pro.

[Steve Davies]

On 3 October 2011 14:22, Bruce Bowler <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:21:42 +0100, Steve Davies wrote:
>
>> An assertion of that sort will have been put into the code on purpose to
>> catch a particular case which cannot or must not happen. It usually only
>> exists in the source code for cases that are going to be fatal or very
>> hard to recover from.
>>
>> I am travelling for the next few days, but unless someone else can
>> identify the issue before I get back I'll go take a look at headers.cc
>> line 264 and see what the intent of that code is :)
>
> Thanks.  For what it's worth, getting rid of the groups folder (or
> probably more precisely one of the groups, but it was easier to move the
> whole thing) "solves" the problem.  I did save the old folder so can go
> look at things more closely if/when it's necessary to diagnose the problem.
>

It looks from the source code as if Pan is asserting that a news
article MUST have an article-id. What server are you connecting Pan
to? NNTP really should not be able to distribute a group unless all
articles have a unique id.

The alternative is that I am mis-interpreting the code :)

Steve