[Pan-users] Re: recurring annoyance

[Thufir]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:48:33 +0000, walt wrote:


> Seriously, I haven't paid much attention to whether my groups marked as
> read actually stay that way.  If any of you three could post a bone-head
> simple example including exact-bone-head-steps-to-reproduce, I'd like to
> take a look.

I could send you some files (some are quite large).  These would be files 
like 

arrakis ~ # 
arrakis ~ # ll /home/thufir/.pan2/groups/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.user 
-rw------- 1 thufir users 27408 Oct 16 21:14 /home/thufir/.pan2/groups/
gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.user
arrakis ~ # 
arrakis ~ # date
Tue Oct 16 21:48:40 PDT 2007
arrakis ~ # 


However, I've renamed many of them (by appending .old onto the name) so 
that a new archive is created.  Unfortunately, I recall going overboard 
and renaming some which didn't need to be renamed!  So, I'm not sure 
which files are relevant.

Next time it happens, I can zip up the files and put them on the internet 
for download.  Since renaming the file fixes the problem for me I suppose 
it could be that there's something wrong with the file itself?

Otherwise, I know of no way to recreate it...

Hmm..., maybe I will try putting the old files back in to see if I can 
reliably recreate the problem.  Of course, it could be that regenerating 
this file triggers something which actually fixes the problem, in which 
case the files which I've renamed are, in and of themselves, fine (and 
this seems likely).


-Thufir