I don’t know if you have solved your problem but here is a solution that worked for me:
Do not call ListFragment.setListAdapter() in your ListFragment.onCreate(). Make sure you have a field variable that can hold the header view, maybe like:
View mheaderView;
Then in your ListFragment.onCreateView(), inflate the header View and assign it to your variable like so:
View list_root = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_list, null);
// Get the list header - to be added later in the lifecycle
// during onActivityCreated()
mheaderView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.list_header, null);
return list_root;
Finally, in your ListFragment.onActivityCreated() you can now call ListFragment.getListView().addHeaderView(). Basically something like so:
super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);
if (mheaderView != null) this.getListView().addHeaderView(headerView);
// Don't forget to now call setListAdapter()
this.setListAdapter(listAdapter);