From: catwheezel@operamail.com   
      
   On 2012-06-23, Aardvark  wrote:   
   > Mandriva 2011, KDE, MIB kernel, Pan 0.135.   
   >   
   > There must have been a power surge or something today as I was reading   
   > NGs in Pan. My computer all of a sudden just rebooted, as did my modem   
   > and routers.   
   >   
   > On getting back to the desktop, I tried to open Pan, but nothing   
   > happened. Trying to run it from konsole in debug mode gives me the   
   > following:   
      
   [...]   
      
   > Can anyone give me any idea of what might be going on here, or what I   
   > can do to get Pan running again? Pan *will* run if I use su, but when it   
   > starts, it looks like a pristine Pan- asking for server and user info.   
      
   I'd look for a "lock file" in your home directory.  I'm not using Pan   
   (or Mandriva!) so I can't tell you the exact path and name, but it's   
   probably a hidden file in ~/ or in ~/.pan or ~/tmp, and would have a   
   date and time matching the moment of the forced shutdown.   
      
   Your newsrc file may have been corrupted too; I think Pan uses one   
   that's plain text so you can view and edit it using your usual text   
   editor - or if it's really messed up, delete it and have Pan make a new   
   one - or substitute the backup or 'old' newsrc file if Pan made one   
   automatically.   
      
   --   
   -- ^^^^^^^^^^   
   --  Whiskers   
   -- ~~~~~~~~~~   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)