[Pan-users] Re: crash == won't start up

[Duncan]

"Kevin Brammer" <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted
below, on  Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:07:53 -1000:

> Has anyone ever closed PAN with active tasks running, and when you go to
> restart PAN you get:
> 
> pan: parts.cc:244: void pan::Parts::set_parts(const pan::PartBatch&):
> Assertion `pch == part_mid_buf + part_mid_buf_len' failed. Aborted
> 
> Can't restart PAN now.  :-\

It's probably a corrupted file somewhere in pan's data dir (~/.pan2 by 
default, on new-pan, post 0.90).  As a test, with pan not running (duh, 
it won't stay running, so that's not a problem at this  point), move it 
elsewhere (say to .pan2.bak) and start pan and see if it starts.  Of 
course, you'll lose your config that way, but if it starts, with pan 
again not running (it'll presumably stay running now but without any 
servers or other config), copy some of the config back, try 
preferences.xml and etc first, and try again.  By process of elimination 
you can probably narrow it down to a single file, and then depending on 
the file, maybe a single line in the file (or if it's a bunch of binary 
gibberish in an ordinary text file, well, you know where the corruption 
is), if desired.  That way you get to keep most of your config, and only 
have to redo a bit.

Or just delete the config and start over, if you don't customize stuff 
much.  I'm a serious customizer, so hate losing possibly significant 
hours of config time and thus tend to prefer finding the problem and 
having to redo as little of my previous work as possible.

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