[Pan-users] Re: Speaking of bugs ...

[Duncan]

Greg Lee <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:26:51
+0000:

> You see the progress indicator at the bottom showing parts and articles,
> as usual, as they are loaded. But THEN, you are taken back to the group
> pane, and it is as though steps 1.-5. had never happened.  There is no
> pattern in the group selection box and there are no headers in the group
> gmane.comp.video.transcode.user. (Furthermore, I think, some information
> about what headers have been read is lost, for other groups.)

This one could well be the problem I've been having, and have discussed 
here before, that some groups simply don't seem to work for me -- they 
don't update.  I've been going to look into it rather deeper, but simply 
haven't had the time as I've been working more hours than usual lately, 
and it doesn't look like I'm likely to get it any time soon either, 
unless I simply decide to screw something else off to do it.  
Unfortunately, it's not a problem a trivial investigation has been able 
to fix, and it looks like it might take some major "quality time" to pin 
down.

At least I know I'm not the only one to have it, now, and you the same.

FWIW, the exact same groups work in a different pan instance (using a 
different config and data dir, set using the PAN_HOME environmental 
variable before pan starts -- I keep several separate instances including 
a "test" instance, where it works).  Thus it's not something hard-coded 
into pan or into the gmane news server.  It's gotta be some problem with 
the existing data set for that pan instance.  The problem is to try to 
trace exactly where it is, and if possible, why it might be occurring, so 
as to prevent it from occurring to others and to fix it for us.  /That's/ 
where the "quality time" comes in. =8^(

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