On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:24:57 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >> I am talking to you from my laptop (running F8 and pan-0.132-2.fc8) >> because my desktop (running F7 and pan-0.131-1.fc7) suddenly stopped >> working. When I start pan (under KDE), its GUI flashes briefly and >> then disappears. Other things, including Firefox and Apache seem fine >> so far. >> >> Thanks for your help. >> Mike. >> >> > If you have not already, open a terminal window and try starting it in > there and see if it will give your an error. > > It puts its config files in ~/.pan2 and there are some things in there > that could be delete without it being and issue (cache) but others are a > bit more trouble if you delete them. > > If you don't get an error I would try doing "mv ~/.pan2 ~/.pan2.bad" and > then start it again and see if it works, if this makes it work, there is > something in the .pan2 directory that disagrees with it. > > iv=ch Roger Thanks for this. Starting from a command line results in the dump below. Can anything be discerned from it? (I deleted the long memory map, which I will post if anyone thinks it would be useful.) I renamed the .pan directory as suggested, and pan then works. I guess if there is no better suggestion, I'll restore the .pan directory and start moving out files, starting with the latest modified (tomorrow at standard -0500). Mike. -- $ pan *** glibc detected *** pan: free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x0a4c07f0 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/libc.so.6[0x178df1] /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0x17c430] pan(UUCleanUp+0x1da)[0x81a510a] pan(_ZN3pan7Decoder7do_workEv+0x60c)[0x8176e6c] pan(_ZN3pan10WorkerPool6Worker18worker_thread_funcEPvS2_+0x12)[0x81a41a2] /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0x502f028] /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0x502d66f] /lib/libpthread.so.0[0xd2844b] /lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e)[0x1e180e] ======= Memory map: ======== [...] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list