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Re: how to debug (and fix) mutt?



I performed a dist-upgrade today, updating everything to the latest
version.

Then I rebuilt the mutt package after installing the required packages.
Building went fine but still mutt segfaults when I try to send a message
and while opening (large) Maildir mailboxes.

Is there anything else I can provide to find the source of this problem?

Running mutt -d 9 doesn't provide any more detail than -d 3 does.
However it might be a good idea to add a warning that debugging at level
9 causes the user's password to be dumped as clear text to the
.muttdebug0 file!

Would the output of the build help?

Regards

Bram

On 2006-02-20, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> 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?
> > X-Spam-Level: 
> > 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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> Thomas Roessler · Personal soap box at <http://log.does-not-exist.org/>.

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