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Bug 71992 - damaged multi-part articles do not decrement thread count
damaged multi-part articles do not decrement thread count
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Pan
Classification: Other
Component: general
0.11.2
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: 0.11.3
Assigned To: Charles Kerr
Charles Kerr
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-02-20 03:47 UTC by john
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description john 2002-02-20 03:47:06 UTC 
Whenever the server is incapable of delivering one or more of a threaded
set of articles that compose a jpeg, mpeg or other such article group, the
task count is never decremented correctly.  The message issued on the
controlling tty is:

body failed: 423 No Such Article In Group

This situation occurs very often when using Rogers.com as your newsfeed, as
there servers are pathetic, badly overloaded, expire articles after less
that 24 hours, and do not update the article indexes correctly when
expiring an article.

e.g. today, I am looking at an idle Pan with 0/20 tasks outstanding.
Comment 1 Charles Kerr 2002-02-20 15:17:13 UTC 
This isn't a bug so much as a feature, as the intention is that you
can retry failed tasks from the task manager.  The other side of this
is that it's annoying to have to remove failed tasks by hand.

Thinking off the top of my head, Pan does keep state information on
what it calls 'failed' tasks (failed because of a connection timeout
or something) and 'hopeless' tasks (failed because the article no
longer exists).  Perhaps Pan should leave 'failed' tasks in the
queue as it does now but remove hopeless ones.

Opinions?
Comment 2 Christophe Lambin 2002-02-26 21:09:28 UTC 
I agree with this, and have added it in CVS.
Comment 3 Charles Kerr 2002-02-27 00:33:53 UTC 
*** Bug 64287 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***