[Pan-users] pan 13.1 broken on debian unstable

[Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom]

since apt-get upgrading pan to 13.1, it does this every time I try to start
it:
$ pan  

(pan:4335): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to
`GObject'

(pan:4335): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1395
(g_object_set_data_full): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(pan:4335): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to
`GtkWidget'

(pan:4335): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to
`GObject'

(pan:4335): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1370
(g_object_get_data): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(pan:4335): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to
`GtkCheckMenuItem'
Segmentation fault

I've even tried building the debian package for pan from source, and I get
the same errors still.
I've also done an apt-get dist-upgrade (several times in the week since this
started), hoping that there's some missing library that didn't get
registered as a dependency, but would get caught in a dist-upgrade. no
improvement.

I believe some other people have been having problems with this sort of
thing, but I wasn't paying much attention. ;) someone said that rebuilding
GTK2 fixed their issue.
the impression I get from the error message (tho I'm hardly a programmer),
is that the fault isn't pan's, but instead the glib library. 

is it worth doing a backtrace on pan, or should I just complain straight to
the debian people? ;)

Carl Soderstrom.
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Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
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