On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 06:04:21 -0000 (UTC), Duncan wrote: > dchmelik-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w posted on Fri, 8 Mar 2024 19:44:16 -0800 > as excerpted: > >> Lately I could no longer get message headers (on >> news.eternal-september.org (ES) nor news.gmane.io) (and preferences.xml >> maybe got corrupted again (seems to happen regularly) this time in my >> ES password) but could after I restart, but still can't get message >> bodies even if I select 'read this article'. The only change I made >> lately was increase article cache to 1Gb. > > If you click on the log (button on the status bar, bottom right, or use > the menu option), what does it say about the attempts? > > What about tasks (bottom left)? Does it stay at No Tasks when you try > to get the message, or does it display the task momentarily? If the > latter, does it show the task if you open the task dialog, and what does > it say is the status there? > > Also, how what is the actual size of the files in the cache? (On linux, > du /path/to/cache, probably du ~/.pan/article-cache or the like, in a > terminal window.) > > Talking about which... ensure that the cache dir exists and is readable/ > writable and on *ix executable (aka enterable, for a directory) for your > user. Maybe it got deleted somehow and the recreation is screwed up due > to filemask or some such, so the permissions are wrong. (I actually had > that happen once... when I had the filemask set unusually due to a > security bug pan had had shortly before, so pan couldn't actually see > inside the dir because it didn't have execute/enter permissions on it -- > I wasn't thinking about it trying to recreate directories when I set the > mask.) > > Does manually deleting all the files (or the dir, but recreate the empty > dir, you can of course back it up before deletion if you don't want to > actually lose what's in the cache) in the cache help?
I got all that information and replied, but accidentally used wrong email address (thanks for not accepting it because I wanted to keep it private) but then found that after some crash (maybe couldn't connect to ES repeatedly after wrong password likely from corrupt preferences.xml) pan set mode to offline. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
