[plug] mutt segfaulting

Bernard bernard at blackham.com.au
Sat Oct 6 11:29:17 WST 2001


List,

Recently, my mutt has been segfaulting whenever I try to add an
alias. The alias is successfully created in ~/.muttrc, but it then
segfaults. I can't find any bugs as such filed against it, and
before I download the 2.5 meg of source code for it (v1.3.20i) to
debug it myself or simply upgrade, I just want to know if anyone
else has any comments or ideas.

An strace of it gives this:

<snipped>
write(1, "\r\33[37m\33[40mAlias added.\33[K\33[m\17\33["..., 48) =
48
stat("/var/spool/mail/bernard", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0,
...}) = 0
write(1, "\33[?25l", 6)                 = 6
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++


It doesn't seem to be adding the alias itself that causes the
problem. Other than that it hasn't segfaulted on me at all,
everything else seems fine.

I've run mutt as a different user (no startup/mail/config files) and
it happily creates aliases as a different user. I've run mutt as me
with a blank .muttrc and empty mail files and it still segfaults.

To isolate the problem, is there anything else mutt could possibly
differ between user to user other than ~/.muttrc and ~/mail ?

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Bernard.

-- 
 Bernard Blackham
 bernard at blackham.com.au



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