LASlib internal error - reading las file with lidR

Question

Should I assume that the following error occurs because the file is corrupt? Is there any way I can get more information out of this file?

bad_las <- readLAS("~/Downloads/3102_309374.las")
#> ERROR: reading 151140850 bytes of data into header.evlrs[0].data
#> ERROR: cannot open lasreaderlas with file name '/Users/lucasj/Downloads/3102_309374.las'
#> Error: LASlib internal error. See message above.
#> ERROR: reading 151140850 bytes of data into header.evlrs[0].data
#> ERROR: cannot open lasreaderlas with file name '/Users/lucasj/Downloads/3102_309374.las'
#> Error in C_reader(ifiles, ofile, select, filter, filter_wkt) : 
#>   LASlib internal error. See message above.
packageVersion("lidR")
#> [1] ‘3.0.5’
packageVersion("rlas")
#> [1] ‘1.3.7’

UPDATE lasinfo and las2txt produce the following error:

ERROR: reading 151140850 bytes of data into header.evlrs[0].data
ERROR: cannot open lasreaderlas with file name '3102_309374.las'
ERROR: could not open lasreader

Answer 1

This looks like the same issue I reported here (which is still open, so there's no solution in rlas yet). Ultimately, I had to use lastools' las2las (on an entire acquisition) to loop through and read/rewrite all the files and it fixed it. Based on that issue on github, I've been contacted by a few others and the las2las approach worked for them too...