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Re: how to debug (and fix) mutt?



The first thing I'd suggest you do is to re-build mutt from a
clean directory.  This amount of segmentation faults very much
sounds like a bad build, since current CVS tends to be very
stable for me.

On 2006-02-20 08:12:54 +0100, Bram Mertens wrote:
> From: Bram Mertens <bram-mertens@xxxxxxxx>
> To: mutt-users@xxxxxxxx
> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:12:54 +0100
> Subject: how to debug (and fix) mutt?
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> Organization: Sofico
> 
> Hi
> 
> I installed a lot of long due updates on my debian/testing box which 
> included upgrading mutt from 1.5.11-5 to 1.5.11+cvs20060126-1.
> 
> Unfortunately after this upgrade I frequently get segmentation faults 
> whil using mutt.  Sending mail is impossible, either starting a new 
> message: seg fault after I press 'm' or replying to a message: seg fault 
> after I press 'y' to send the message.
> 
> Today I had another seg fault when I tried to open the folder containing 
> messages from this list.
> 
> Is there a way to get more logging to see what is going wrong?
> 
> So far I only know that there are several temporary files left in /tmp 
> containing messages I was reading or composing when mutt segfaulted.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Bram
> 
> 

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