I occasionally use Pan as a news reader (once a month or so) and this week I started it up and my mouse froze. It seemed that the whole computer was frozen (or Pan started using 100% of CPU time). Eventually Pan shut down and I was able to resume using the PC. I'm running Debian Lenny. This seemed to start after the latest update I received on Monday (I think -- it seemed to be only one file that got upgraded at this time - ) Sorry I am a USER not a programmer or super Linux user -- Can anyone point me into the right direction to fix this up? This is the first issue with any of the programs that I have running on this system so I would appreciate some pointers on how to remedy this.

Many thanks

John

Try opening a terminal, starting pan from the command line, and watching the terminal for any error messages.

Tried a root terminal and pan opens ok. Does not pick up my user info. Tried from a command line as user and it opens Pan which then freezes and eventually the program closes with a 'killed' message. Do you know what the file name would be for subscribed newsgroups and the name for the info required to log into a usenet provider? My directory for pan (ver .133) resides under 'user/downloads/pan0.133. I looked at as many files that I could see with a text editor but didn't see anything that could help resolve this issue.
One thing I notice is that under root the version is .132 --I don't recall what version I am actually using (or trying to use)

John

.133 came out several years ago, so I would be a little surprised if there was an update.

Take a look at the size of the files in you .pan2 directory. Usually something has happend to one of the files and it gets so big pan cannot handle it(usually in GBs).

Just finished looking at all the files in my /user/downloads/pan0.133 directory and all the files located in sub-folders and found nothing over 2mb and I think that was pan itself. Where else would anything related to pan be found? I also do not find a .pan2 directory -- where would it be located?

On (most) gnome based distros it is in the users home directory (/home/"user").

You do understand that files starting with "."(peroid) are hidden files?

I did not know that they were hidden files. Like I said -- I am a user of linux under gui and I try to stay away from using command line entries. I'll look for this directory and let you know.

John

Hi lazlow

Many thanks for the info re .pan2. I went looking for the directory, found it and looked into all of the files. I found a couple of files that had subscribed news groups and one that seemed to have all the news groups. I deleted them and tried pan -- I had to re-populate the list and re-subscribe to the ones I wanted and it appears to be working properly now.
None of the files were really large (no more than 2 MB) but that seemed to work ok for me. This old dog just learned something new today!!!!

John