No SSL connection since update

[karl]

Since 13.04 pan is hanging in "Es wird verbunden" - "connecting" and no news are fetched from server. No prefs changed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: pan 0.139-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-15.25-generic 3.8.4
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-15-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 4 10:45:25 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-01-25 (434 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pan
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-01 (2 days ago)

[karl (karl-sebastian-liebich)]

reconf solved the prob :[

[Boris Hajdukovic (s7habo-z)]

Hallo karl,

I have same problem. What do you mean under "reconf"?

Thx.

[Brain Juice (doublecheck)]

Experiencing same issue after upgrade 12.10 --> 13.04 32 bit other newsreaders work.

[Cepheid (cepheid)]

Same problem here after upgrade 12.10 => 13.04. 64 bit.

[karl (karl-sebastian-liebich)]

Boris, just delete the old config file ~/.pan2 and reconfigure it completely. You will loose your work done so far but pan will work.

[Cepheid (cepheid)]

Karl: I tried what you write (delete old config directory), but it's not working. Still the same problem: It's writing "connecting", but doesn't get any connection.
Maybe some SSL problem?

[Boris Hajdukovic (s7habo-z)]

Thx Karl.

Worked for me after second try.

[karl (karl-sebastian-liebich)]

G., silly question: did you shut down pan before deleting the conf? If so, give it a second try, like Boris did? Should this not work we have a bug here and you should downgrade to get it work..

[Cepheid (cepheid)]

Karl, thank you.
Now I deleted ~/.pan2, deinstalled pan, installed pan, and now it works for the non-SSL connections.
However, with my preferred provider newsgroupdirect, the SSL connection doesn't work. It seems that I must use again the workaround with stunnel 4, see here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=653246

I had to use this earlier with pan too, but in the past months, it was possible to use pan with SSL to newsgroupdirect without the stunnel4 workaround. It seems somewhere something was changed...

[Cepheid (cepheid)]

Two additions:
- now I got also the SSL connection working, by using stunnel4
- I noticed that in pan, the SSL and certificate options seem to have been removed. On the previous pan, there was the certificate stored somewhere in the ~/.pan2 folder, but now pan seems to lack any options to deal with SSL/TLS and certificates.

[Michael Dwyer (kalifg)]

I had the same problem, and the same solution using stunnel4. This is how I had to do it before pan2 had SSL support, has this support been removed?

[Brian Brodsky (brianbrodsky)]

I have the same problem. Pan does not have ssl option when it used to.

[Takkat (takkat-nebuk)]

Sadly SSL is still not supported in 0.139-2 Trusty 14.04 LTS (see https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pan/0.139-2).

SSL functionality can be restored by downgrading and pin to 0.139-0 precise version from ppa:klaus-vormweg/pan.