GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 356070
News servers not merging properly
Last modified: 2006-09-18 00:22:09 UTC
I have Pan configured with two servers, my local ISP and Newsguy. Since upgrading to Pan 0.112 binary newsgroups are showing two of most (not all) posts. Different news groups are affected, not just one. For example: program.part01.rar program.part01.rar program.part02.rar program.part02.rar etc... It looks to me that it's not merging the news servers, so, posts that appear on both of my news servers are appearing as different posts, when it should merge them into one...
is this repeatable without going online -- that is, if you start Pan cold and load a group, do duplicates appear? If so, please mail me, or attach to the ticket, the ~/.pan2/groups/groupname file for the group in question, and your ~/.pan2/preferences.xml file. Neither of these have any passwords or critical information on it.
Yep, it happens as soon as I launch Pan, regardless of any online activity... Oh, and if it matters, I skipped the previous release, going from .110 to .112... I've emailed you the requested files, as I can't add more than 1Meg to this...
OK. D'oh, I see the problem. I'm not sure how to fix it,indeed cause problems with folding multiserver articles together. but I see the problem. This is a side-effect of the memory-saving hacks in 0.111 and does break multiserver integration.
*** Bug 354326 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 72902 [details] [review] 0.112 patch Give this a try and see if it works: NOTE: this fixes merging for headers downloaded after the patch is applied, but doesn't retroactively fix the rest. So though it's not essential, you may want to clear out your newsgroups to get everything merged properly. As a side-effect, this should reduce xover memory a little more (though I haven't done a side-by-side test yet) and makes the subject line in the header pane look a little nicer for multiparts. (instead of "aasfasdf (2/4)" it reads "aasfasdf (/4)"
Excellent, applied the patch, works just fine now. I didn't even have to clear out and reload the newsgroups. Thanks Charles.
I take that back, I DID have to reload the groups. The patch definitely fixed it though!