Re: [Pan-users] Pan crashes on every reply sent.

[Duncan]

Frederic Bezies posted on Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:23:54 +0100 as excerpted:

> Hello.
> 
> Very annoying bug using last git commit available.
> 
> When I try to post a reply, pan crashes.
> 
> Here is the message I get when I launch it from terminal :
> 
> address@hidden src]$ terminate called after throwing an instance of
> 'std::length_error'
>    what():  basic_string::resize
> 
> [1]+  Abandon                 pan
> 
> Any idea ?

Well, if you'd have used pan to post this (using gmane.org's list2news 
service, as I do, or whatever), the pan user-agent header might have 
given us the relevant info on git branch and commit number, etc, but you 
didn't, and you didn't post that info, so I get to ask... but at least 
you DID post that it's git, not the release version.

Since you didn't say, you're presumably using the the official gnome repo, 
not khaley/lostcoder's github repo, or someone else's there.  But master 
branch, or the new testing branch that hmueller's running that was 
previously on github as the judgefudge repo (and before that as the 
imhotep82 repo).

Many regulars here (including me) run the hmueller experimental/testing 
branch, since that's where the current action and new goodies seem to be, 
but it /is/ pretty raw and /does/ break sometimes.  And since you didn't 
say, the default would presumably be master branch, except that so many 
here run experimental...  So there's no real assumable default at this 
point.

And of course, the git commit would be useful as well.

FWIW as I said, I run hmueller's branch, now official gnome upstream 
testing branch, but I've not updated in a few days.  The git-commit is as 
I said in the user-agent header.  It sort of includes branch as well, but 
at least as it shows up in my headers, that's the local bare-branch that 
portage pulls using my customized pan ebuild, so while the occurrance of 
portage in the string is a strong indication that I use gentoo, and the 
path leaks some information about my local directory layout, it doesn't 
say anything about the upstream branch I'm pulling from as that feature 
is actually intended to do.

But with the caveat that I run that testing branch and haven't pulled in 
a few days so am almost certainly behind, I've not seen any such 
behavior, here.  That might help narrow down the commit range in which 
the problem occurs if you use gnome/testing as well, or it might not, as 
it could just as easily be a difference in library version, or if you're 
on 32-bit, maybe it only happens there, since I'm running amd64/x86_64.

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