Duncan,
Thanks for the heads up. Downloading the latest from svn and compiling
it worked like a charm. I didn't have to do anything else after that,
just run pan. :D Thanks guys for such a great newsreader on my
favorite platform!
Thanks,
Fred
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 02:55 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> Fred Newtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 29 Sep 2008
> 17:01:12 -0500:
>
> > My power cord to my laptop is all goofy and while downloading my laptop
> > died. Now when I am trying to open pan back up I get this error when I
> > try and run it from the command line:
> >
> > pan: parts.cc:244: void pan::Parts::set_parts(const pan::PartBatch&):
> > Assertion `pch == part_mid_buf + part_mid_buf_len' failed. Aborted
> >
> > Now I know that this is due to a problem with the tasks.nzb file. I
> > have a huge set of files in there for download right now and do not want
> > to have to redo them all again and only get the files that have not been
> > downloaded etc.. I removed the top <file ...> </file> entry and that
> > did not seem to fix the problem. How can I verify this file and make
> > sure it meets the requirements of pan?
>
> The best solution at this point would be to upgrade. If you're still
> getting a crash with that error, the pan you are using almost certainly
> doesn't have the security patch in the latest 0.133 and in some
> distribution's patched 0.132 versions as well, since that patch was
> supposed to fix that problem. Thus, it's definitely worth upgrading to a
> patched version, altho if your distro doesn't have one yet you will
> likely have to compile it yourself.
>
> If you are going to continue running with the old version, tho... what
> I'd suggest is to try strace. strace -efile pan, or possibly replace the
> -efile with -eopen. (-efile will give you all file ops not just opens,
> but will likely produce a huge amount of output. -eopen will be just
> file opens, so less output, but it may be harder to see the problem.)
> You may need to string that together with a grep (for the pan data dir at
> least, thus killing all the misc font, icon, library etc loads), and/or
> dump the output to a file rather than to your terminal window, and use
> search on it, to reduce the size of the output to something manageable.
> The idea of course would be to find the file it crashes on, so you can
> delete both that file (if necessary) and that bit of the tasks.nzb file,
> keeping the XML intact, of course.
>
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