Re: [Pan-users] Pan core-dumps on startup

[John Aldrich]

On Sun July 14 2013 9:40:35 PM Duncan wrote:
> John Aldrich posted on Sun, 14 Jul 2013 16:30:05 -0400 as excerpted:
> > On Sun July 14 2013 7:53:33 PM Heinrich Müller wrote:
> >> try deleting your .pan2 folder and try again.
> > 
> > Thanks, Heinrich. Apparently something got FUBARed in my config file and
> > (in this case) renaming the folder removed the bad file from where it
> > was expected and caused a new one to be created, resolving the problem!
> > 
> > :D
> 
> There have been several reports of a corrupt tasks.nzb file triggering
> crashes/coredumps.  Since you renamed the directory, if you haven't
> deleted it yet, try restoring it and just moving/renaming the tasks.nzb
> file.  If that's it, it'll save the rest of your config, as well as
> confirm that file as a problem trigger once again.
> 
> If that's the problem and you weren't downloading anything too personal,
> I'd suggest filing a bug and attaching that file, as I'm beginning to
> believe pan needs rather more robust handling for it and that would give
> Heinrich and others something real to test against.
>
Well, I already deleted it, once I got PAN working again. No biggie.