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Re: slink->potato: mutt going bezerk



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.


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