On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 01:12:01AM +0100, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote: > I upgraded a box from slink to potato yesterday, and ran into a very strange > problem. Since then, I am unable to run mutt. > When I start it, it just blacks out the screen and returns to the prompt (which > is at the bottom btw. so it is probably a slang or curses problem). No error, no > core dump, nothing. Running as root doesn't change it, it behaves exactly the > same. > I *have* gotten it to run (that's how I am now writing this email in fact), but > in a very unconvenient way to say the least. In order to gather as much info as > I could to file a bug report, I mindlessly entered 'gdb mutt' (though of course > it didn't have any symbols, and I don't have any debugging libraries installed > anyway). To my great surprise, when I told it to 'run', it just did that - run > mutt. No blackout, no exiting, working fine. > > I don't know what is going on, and don't know whose bug this may be. I've > upgraded slink boxes to potato before, I ran into other trouble, but those were > usually fixable - I wouldn't know what to do here. I checked /etc/Muttrc, I > installed the 'fresh' Muttrc from the package, renamed my ~/.muttrc, all without > success. > > I hope someone knows what is going on here, I'd hate to reinstall the box (it > has been running fine since hamm release - upgrade to slink went flawlessly, > with my computers by the way, and I really hate this happening). > > Regards, > > Filip I'm not anywhere near being a debugging expert, but it sounds to me like file corruption. It could be possible that gdb/strace just jump to certain pointers, skipping a bit of the load stuff that normally gets parsed (like ELF headers or something. Note that I have zero experience with gdb, but it wouldn't hurt to get a different mutt package from somewhere else and see if it works. I have a working mutt_1.0.0-3_i386 package from potato. If you want me to e-mail it to you (746K), let me know. -- "If you continue running Windows, your system may become unstable." -- Windows 95 BSOD Dwayne C. Litzenberger - dlitz@cheerful.com Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. Advertising Policy: http://www.redrival.com/dlitz/spamoff.html GnuPG Public Key: http://www.redrival.com/dlitz/gpgkey.asc Fingerprint: 0535 F7CF FF5F 8547 E5A5 695E 4456 FB6C BC39 A4B0
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