Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.139 refuses to start! [SOLVED]

[Maurice]

On Sat, 22 Jun 2013 05:24:26 +0000, Duncan wrote:

>  if I had the
> corresponding strace of a successful run to compare it against, and
> possibly a diff between them (tho I could of course do that myself once
> I had both straces in hand), that would spotlite the differences,


So I scooted back to Mageia-3 to do that.

(N.B. In the previous session I had changed the Startup options to 
'Start with an empty session')

First I tried starting Pan from a terminal session, which showed an 
extra warning:

---------------------------------------------------------
$ pan
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name 
news.pan.NZB was not provided by any .service files
---------------------------------------------------------

I don't understand the reference to "news.pan.NZB', although there is 
in .pan2 a file 'tasks/nzb' containing:

----------------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE nzb PUBLIC "-//newzBin//DTD NZB 1.0//EN" 
"http://www.newzbin.com/DTD/nzb/nzb-1.0.dtd";>
<nzb xmlns="http://www.newzbin.com/DTD/2003/nzb";>
</nzb>
-----------------------------------------------

I tried deleting it, but it gets automatically recreated...
Why is it there?


HOWEVER, after the initial warnings Pan DID START, and continues to do 
so!

Now, the only change in my system settings since the failure was to 
set startup to 'start with an empty session'.
   Also, I had been noticing (since the problem started) that during 
logout/Shutdown,I was seeing a brief flash of what looked like Pan's 
opening display.

Could it be that Heinrich's suggestion (Pan already running) was on 
the mark, and that Pan wasn't starting because its session was still 
open at Logout, but for some reason was not being re-displayed at 
Login?  (And then setting 'start with empty session' had cleared that 
open session?)

Whatever, Pan 0.139 on Mageia-3 is back in business, but I shall play 
with it a bit more before permanently moving over from Mageia-2.

Many thanks for your help, Duncan! Much appreciated...

-- 
/\/\aurice