PAN Failure -- Help

[Patrick Kaiser]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 01:52:09AM +0000, MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:24:57 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote:
> 
> > MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> >> I am talking to you from my laptop (running F8 and pan-0.132-2.fc8)
> >> because my desktop (running F7 and pan-0.131-1.fc7) suddenly stopped
> >> working.  When I start pan (under KDE), its GUI flashes briefly and
> >> then disappears.  Other things, including Firefox and Apache seem fine
> >> so far.
> >> 
> >> Thanks for your help.
> >> Mike.
> >> 
> >> 
> > If you have not already, open a terminal window and try starting it in
> > there and see if it will give your an error.
> > 
> > It puts its config files in ~/.pan2 and there are some things in there
> > that could be delete without it being and issue (cache) but others are a
> > bit more trouble if you delete them.
> > 
> > If you don't get an error I would try doing "mv ~/.pan2 ~/.pan2.bad" and
> > then start it again and see if it works, if this makes it work, there is
> > something in the .pan2 directory that disagrees with it.
> > 
> >    iv=ch               Roger
> 
> Thanks for this.
> 
> Starting from a command line results in the dump below. Can anything
> be discerned from it?  (I deleted the long memory map, which I will
> post if anyone thinks it would be useful.)  
> 
> I renamed the .pan directory as suggested, and pan then works.
> I guess if there is no better suggestion, I'll restore the
> .pan directory and start moving out files, starting with the
> latest modified (tomorrow at standard -0500).
> 
> Mike.
> 
> --
> 
> $ pan
> *** glibc detected *** pan: free(): invalid next size (normal): 
> 0x0a4c07f0 ***
> ======= Backtrace: =========
> /lib/libc.so.6[0x178df1]
> /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0x17c430]
> pan(UUCleanUp+0x1da)[0x81a510a]
> pan(_ZN3pan7Decoder7do_workEv+0x60c)[0x8176e6c]
> pan(_ZN3pan10WorkerPool6Worker18worker_thread_funcEPvS2_+0x12)[0x81a41a2]
> /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0x502f028]
> /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0x502d66f]
> /lib/libpthread.so.0[0xd2844b]
> /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e)[0x1e180e]
> ======= Memory map: ========
> [...]
> 
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Hi Mike,

I had the same problem on the first time i started using pan on fc8. I
"fixed" this firstly by running pan together with strace:

strace pan

and this worked a little time for me. Short time later this also didn't
worked for me. So I removed PAN from my system with yum remove pan and
installed it again with yum install pan. Since this time, PAN is working
very well.

I hope this will also works for you. If not, then maybe you can try a
newer pan version (from fc9 maybe).


Regards, Patrick

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Patrick Kaiser

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