Re: [Pan-users] Malformed From(?) header field causes aborting

[Charles Kerr]

> Hi,
> I've found that downloading all messages from certain local,
> Finnish groups (eg. sfnet.huuhaa) causes Pan to abort after assert
> error:
> pan: headers.cc:405: void pan::DataImpl::load_headers(const
> pan::DataIO&, const pan::Quark&): Assertion `*s.str=='<'' failed.

Confirmed.

> Furthermore after the initial abort pan will always crash on startup, so
> it seems that the broken header gets saved somewhere. Deleting .pan2
> data will of course work it around.

It shouldn't be crashing until you load that group again, perhaps in
"get new headers for subscribed groups on startup" ... deleting
~/.pan2/groups/sfnet.huuhaa should fix the problem.

This appears to be a reproducable, isolated case of the
``(string-view.cc:107 strstr): assertion "haystack != NULL" failed.''
bug that others have reported.  Thanks!

Charles