Re: [Pan-users] pan on windows

[Tom Tanner]

On 24/03/2022 04:23, Duncan wrote:
> Dominique Dumont posted on Wed, 23 Mar 2022 11:51:20 +0100 as excerpted:
>
> > On Wednesday, 23 March 2022 11:21:54 CET Tom Tanner via Pan-users wrote:
> > > I've been unable to save articles. The article is downloaded fine, but
> > > it produces a xxxxx.ERRORS file instead,
> > > with the contents
> > >
> > > ERROR: Write error on target file D:\Caches\TempDir\Temp\uuZNQJJ1: Bad
> > > file descriptor
> > That's a known issue on Windows:
> > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan/-/issues/106
> While I can't do MS due to the EULA, the fact that the error persists no
> matter where you save the file, as well as the pointer to %TEMP%,
> indicates it's a problem there.
>
> How much free space on that partition?  Just in case, you've tried a full
> reboot (not just a hibernate), right?  What are the results of a fsck/
> checkdisk/whatever run on that partition?
>
> And assuming you have the space, does starting pan with $TEMP pointed at a
> different partition (maybe a USB stick if you don't have a spare partition
> available) change the result?
>
> ....

(rant removed)


There's no problem with space or the disc in general. I do full reboots 
every day. As noted in a post that I guess crossed with yours, it's a 
change introduced post 0.144. I had a look at the git diff and can't see 
anything terrifically obvious so it might be a library issue. 
Unfortunately the instructions for building under windows are (a) scary 
and (b) possibly out of date as they refer to gtk2 and I think pan is 
using gtk3 now?