Re: [Pan-users] Re: Start up error on 0.111

[Kevin Brammer]

On 9/8/06, Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:
> "Kevin Brammer" <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted
> below, on  Thu, 07 Sep 2006 18:12:00 -1000:
>
> > Ideas?<br>Whenever I try to start PAN now, I get the
> > following:<br><br>bash-3.00$ /opt/pan2/bin/pan<br>pan: fptools.c:455:
> > _FP_fgets: Assertion `*buf' failed.<br>Aborted<br><br>It worked this
> > morning before I left for work. Now this.&nbsp; :\
> > <br><br>Ideas?<br>_______________________________________________
> > Pan-users mailing list
>
> If you /must/ use HTML in your posts, please at least don't do it in the
> pan groups.  HTML posts are considered by many to be the domain of
> spammers and crackers, so there's a reason pan doesn't support them, and
> as you can see from the above quote, they aren't pleasant to look at using
> pan or other non-HTML clients as well.

Damnit, it wasn't supposed to be HTML.  I don't know why gmail keeps
changing back and forth.  I send all emails as text, so there's no
reason why it would be on HTML.

> To your problem...  assuming you didn't leave a system update going when
> you left for work or that your general system isn't otherwise different
> now than it was when it worked, you've probably somehow corrupted the pan
> database.  You can rename your ~/.pan2 dir (the default location, the .
> beginning the filename will hide the dir by default) and pan should work
> normally, recreating the directory when it starts, but you'll lose your
> configuration, cache, and read message memory.
[snipped]

I tried all that already, and moving .pan2 did work.  So, I moved it
back and starting digging.  Removing the tasks.nzb file seemed to
resolve the problem.  I'm not sure if PAN wasn't clearing out
completed tasks or what.

Kevin