[CLUE-Tech] problem with pan 0.9.6

don dlj1148 at attbi.com
Thu Oct 3 18:36:18 MDT 2002


On Thursday 03 October 2002 06:12 pm, you wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:48:26 -0600
>
> don <dlj1148 at attbi.com> wrote:
> > Pan has been working fine. downloading, combining and saving messages
> > from news groups. yesterday, it stop saving, pan downloads, does a quick
> > decode, but nothing is saves, if I use open attachment, the message is
> > download but the attachment is not played. I have added nothing to the
> > system or changed any pan settings. what are the thoughts on the
> > problem.
>
> Wow! I'm running Pan 0.11.2, and it's old. I think they started on 0.12
> back in March.
>
> Only thing I can think of is the mime type is wrong. I've seen some news
> posters use application/octet-stream when they could use the proper mime
> type. Pan doesn't decode these, IIRC.
>
> If you could supply the newsgroup name, and a message ID or subject line,
> that would be helpful. There might be a way to look at your logs too, but
> Pan's menu structure has changed, so I'm not sure where to look for the
> "view log" function.
>
> What Linux distribution are you running? If you're running a fairly recent
> one, maybe upgrading to the last 0.11 release would be a good thing to do.
> At least that way, you could have a fair chance of getting help on the
> pan-users mailing list.
>
> jed
the news group is alt.binaries.sounds.mp3

this is happening on any mp3 i try and download and save.

I am using mandrake 8.0

the pan log view does not show any errors. just noemal connect entries.

thanks
don



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