"Guilhem Bonnefille"
<address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted
below, on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:10:10 +0200:
> I'm quite surprised with this new version. I set some servers before
> refreshing group list but I'm unable to collect group list. After few
> hours of "refreshing" one of my pan instance retrieves 440000 groups, on
> each of my desired servers (news.free.fr and allnews.readfreenews.net).
> I'm not sure these servers have such list. I think they have something
> like 120000 groups. It seems that something goes wrong here, like a deadly
> loop.
I suspect that's an already known bug introduced to 0.116. It was related
to clearing a net input buffer when it should have been keeping the
existing content and continuing to add to it. This was obviously a
show-stopper for 1.0, but the fix will be in 0.117 (which with luck will
be the final beta before 1.0), or it's in CVS (what I'm now running)
already. See the list of bugs already addressed for 0.117, based on the
CVS version, that I posted about 8 hours ago (new thread, mentioning the
new icons) for the bug number along with those for other changes. There
wasn't a patch on the bug but a line number and change, so you can patch
it manually if you wish to compile from tarball but don't want to do CVS.
An alternative would be rolling back to 0.115 temporarily, as it was
slower, but didn't have this corruption. Packages for that should still be
available if you aren't interested in compiling.