Re: [Pan-users] Reverting to last session's task list

[Michael A Chase]

On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 16:48:53 -0700 Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun 20 Apr 2003 09:01, Michael A Chase posted as excerpted below:
> > When I start Pan I often get a pop-up titled "Question" with the
> > text "Pan appears to have crashed or been killed the last time it was
> > run.  Do you want to revert to the last session's task list?".  This
> > happens whether the last shutdown was normal or not.
> >
> > It appears that ~/.pan/data/tasks.xml is not always being removed
> > during a normal shutdown.  I have been careful to make sure the task
> > counter at the bottom of the window is 0 before I shutdown, but I have
> > not always checked for tasks.xml before starting.  Naturally, now that
> > I am, I haven't seen the pop-up again.
> >
> > OS: Redhat Linux 2.4.18-27.8.0
> > Pan 0.13.93 from RPM
> 
> I've noticed that as well.  Occasionally the dialog will popup even
> when all tasks were done the last time.  I haven't bothered to
> investigate, but did figure it was due to the existence of that file
> from following the list.
>
> I'm wondering if certain types of failed tasks are not removed from
> the list properly..

That's possible.  One of the sites I get news from is frequently
unresponsive.  I was always careful to delete the failed tasks from
the task list though.

> I don't know that I've seen it on 0.13.94 yet, but then I didn't
> switch to it immediately, either, as I was busy recovering from a
> failed NVidia driver upgrade that hosed KDE, and haven't been on it
> that long.

I've put a wrapper around pan to save tasks.xml if it is found at
startup.  Naturally it hasn't happened since I added the wrapper.

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