[Pan-users] Re: Upgrade to 0.113 in debian etch causes proxy connection to fail

[Duncan]

pan user and I like it <address@hidden>
posted address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sun, 08
Oct 2006 10:54:41 -0400:

> I use a ssh tunnel connection to premium nntp service. Before upgrade to
> 0.113 all was fine.
> 
> After upgrade ssh connection in pan 0.113 fails to connect. I use terminal
> to open connection to ssh tunnel server.
> 
> Fire up pan after upgrade and no connection is made, no time out errors or
> other errors noted. Just does not connect.
> 
> Anyone else have this problem?

FWIW, I can confirm there are a few others that use pan in a similar
manner, but I'm not one of them, so can't confirm what versions of pan if
any have issues with it.  Hopefully you'll get a fuller response from one
of them, but I can at least confirm there are others doing it, and haven't
seen any reports of problems before yours, so I'd /suspect/ it's something
specific to your system and config.

BTW, with 0.115 now out and maybe 0.116 today or shortly, I'd suggest
trying a later version.  IIRC, there were still some major bugs being
reported with 0.113, 0.114 cured many of them and the big thing with 0.115
was some further/major memory optimizations.  Therefore, I'd suggest
trying 0.114 at least if not 0.115, and see if the problem continues to
exist, before getting /too/ worried about it.  Yes, with close to weekly
builds on average, sometimes more frequently, keeping up /can/ be
difficult, but thru at least 0.114 there were significant bug fixes in
every one, so...

(If you are on amd64, 0.115 requires a patch to build.  See
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358654 and use the rollup patch I
posted.)

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