GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 125997
Doesn't connect after network interface restarted
Last modified: 2007-02-06 15:46:40 UTC
A Debian user has reported the following bug to the Debian Bugtracking System: --8<-- My newsserver is currently being flaky -- at time it disconnects me, or rather, fails to connect. When this happens, pan will not process any jobs in the queue until it is restarted. Clicking the connect button in the right part of the toolbar of the main pan window has no effect. --8<-- Details and output from a --debug'ed run of pan is available at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=216269 Thanks.
This sounds like a bug that was reported against 0.14.0 but is confirmed fixed in 0.14.2; are you sure you've got the right version number here?
Charles: I was seeing this a couple of weeks ago. There were severe problems at my news provider, which meant that the remote end would think Pan had exceeded the maximum connection limit. When this happened, Pan would go offline and stay offline. The provider has got their act together now so I'm not seeing this problem anymore... If I can provoke it again, I'll add to this bug.
To answer your question about the version of pan run by the original submitter: The bug was originally submitted to debian using a semiautomatic bugreporting tool, which among other things, gathers info about the software against which the bug is being reported. Long story short, it is highly unlikely that the original submitter got his version wrong.
This applies to pan 0.91 as well. It is reproducible: - Start pan - Shut down the interface through which pan connects - Perform an action which requires net access (such as fetching new headers for a group). The task doesn't get performed. - Restart the network interface. Pan apparently does not detect this, since the task does not get performed
reopening as requested information has been provided.
I've awakened the past 2 mornings to this in the new betas. There will be 4 windows, one for each connection. The old pan hasn't done this to me in a long time. This is the end of my pan log. I've replaced my username with "removed" Fri Oct 6 00:30:44 2006 - Error: Got "502 Your per-user connection limit reached" from news.astraweb.com in response to "AUTHINFO USER removed" Fri Oct 6 00:30:44 2006 - Unable to connect to "news.astraweb.com" Pan is now offline. Please see "File|Event Log" and correct the problem, then use "File|Work Online" to continue. Fri Oct 6 00:30:49 2006 - Error: Got "502 Your per-user connection limit reached" from news.astraweb.com in response to "AUTHINFO USER (removed" Fri Oct 6 00:30:49 2006 - Unable to connect to "news.astraweb.com" Pan is now offline. Please see "File|Event Log" and correct the problem, then use "File|Work Online" to continue. Fri Oct 6 00:30:54 2006 - Error: Got "502 Your per-user connection limit reached" from news.astraweb.com in response to "AUTHINFO USER removed" Fri Oct 6 00:30:54 2006 - Unable to connect to "news.astraweb.com" Pan is now offline. Please see "File|Event Log" and correct the problem, then use "File|Work Online" to continue. Fri Oct 6 00:30:59 2006 - Error: Got "502 Your per-user connection limit reached" from news.astraweb.com in response to "AUTHINFO USER removed" Fri Oct 6 00:30:59 2006 - Unable to connect to "news.astraweb.com" Pan is now offline. Please see "File|Event Log" and correct the problem, then use "File|Work Online" to continue.
whansard: the bug you're seeing in comment #6 is a separate issue that's addressed in bug #358063.
*** Bug 362268 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
i got my same error last night while sitting watching it. Of course the date is newer than these. Maybe it's my news server going down for a minute or 2. Just a guess. Fri Oct 6 00:30:59 2006 - Error: Got "502 Your per-user connection limit reached" from news.astraweb.com in response to "AUTHINFO USER removed" Fri Oct 6 00:30:59 2006 - Unable to connect to "news.astraweb.com" Pan is now offline. Please see "File|Event Log" and correct the problem, then use "File|Work Online" to continue.
I'm seeing this bug with 0.119. Occasionally my wireless router / dsl modem loses the connectivity to the outside world for a few seconds. At the moment that this occured, Pan showed 4 tasks running (4 @ 89 KiB/s). Nothing was shown in the event log related to this connection loss. After the connection to the outside world was reestablished, Pan kept the 4 connections. netstat shows the 4 connections as ESTABLISHED, even half an hour after the outage: # netstat |grep nntp: tcp4 0 0 192.168.1.2.65206 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.nntp ESTABLISHED tcp4 0 0 192.168.1.2.58063 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.nntp ESTABLISHED tcp4 0 0 192.168.1.2.60552 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.nntp ESTABLISHED tcp4 0 0 192.168.1.2.65504 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.nntp ESTABLISHED Toggling Pan's "Work Online" off: (4 @ 3.9 KiB/s) => Offline Toggling Pan's "Work Online" back on: Offline => (4 @ 3.9 KiB/s) os: freebsd 6.1
Sorry, I just realised that I didn't make it clear that I also see the behavior of the original poster: The only way to get the tasks running again is to restart Pan.
This works as of 0.122 as a result of #354779's fix. I have had a lot of network trouble lately, so I can confirm this from repetitive personal experience. :)