[Pan-users] Re: gmane users, please check gmane.linux.gentoo.project for me

[walt]

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:09:46 +0000, Duncan wrote:

> gmane.linux.gentoo.project is a new list/newsgroup on gmane.  I've
> subscribed to it but am getting no posts.  As of a few minutes ago when
> I did a telnet troubleshooting session, there were actually 37 posts
> there that should be coming thru, but pan isn't seeing any of them. 
> Despite the fact that I'm subscribed and the groups do appear and remain
> in my subscribed list over a pan restart, and the fact that I've
> repeatedly fetched headers (overviews) to try to bring them in,
> newsgroups.xov still has no entry for the group, and pan has created no
> groups/gmane.linux.gentoo.project file at all.  The entry in the
> appropriate newsrc file is as follows:
> 
> gmane.linux.gentoo.project: 3,6

Mine is gmane.linux.gentoo.project: 0-1,3,7,29
 
> and the entry in newsgroups.ynm is:
> 
> gmane.linux.gentoo.project:m

Same here.
 
> Finally, the entry in group-preferences is (local username save path
> obscured for posting):
> 
> <group name="gmane.linux.gentoo.project">
>     <string name='character-encoding' value='UTF-8'/> <string
>     name='default-group-save-path' value='<local path'/> <string
>     name='posting-profile' value='lists'/>

Close enough to mine. 

> and there's no entry in newsgroups.set, tho I'm not sure there would be
> until I actually posted.

Is 'newsgroups.set' a typo?  I don't have that file.  Here is the entry
I have in newsgroups.xov:
gmane.linux.gentoo.project 38 34 1:38
and the group file in the groups directory is 13167 bytes long.

> If telnet news.gmane.org 119 says there's 37 posts in that group, and I
> can actually pull them up in telnet using either group sequence number
> or message-id, why isn't pan pulling them up?  Surely it's a bug, but
> before I file it, is it specific to my pan (SVN commit 309....)

I'm at commit 310 now, but I doubt that means much.  I didn't see the
group at all until I refreshed the groups list -- I would try doing that
again and see if it makes any difference.  This is clearly a case of evil
spirits cursing your machine, so you must repeat the simple steps until
you've exorcized them all.  For example, when I install a device driver 
in Windows I usually need to repeat the same obvious steps, which fail
N times in a row and then succeed on try N+1.  Evil spirits are the
only scientific explanation for these phenomena.

Have you tried unsubscribing and deleting all the references to that
group before re-subscribing?