[Pan-users] Re: pan 13.1 broken on debian unstable

[cav]

>Date:  Mon, 28 Oct 2002 19:22:52 -0600
>From: "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <address@hidden>


> 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'

[etc...]

> Segmentation fault


> 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? ;)

I was getting the same thing, and narrowed it down to my filter.xml file...
I had something in there with name="blah_blah" and the crashing stopped 
when I removed the underscore from the name.  I'm guessing the xml parsing
library was to blame.

cav

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