Re: crashes during POP3 fetching

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 09/16/2008 01:48:16 AM, Jack wrote:
> For the past few weeks, Balsa has been crashing fairly often while it
> is fetching mail from my POP3 mailbox.  However, it successfully gets
> at least some of the mail, since repeated fetches eventually gets all
> the mail.  I'm using popfile for spamfiltering, but I don't see any
> evidence of problems there.  This is balsa 2.3.25 on AMD64, kernel
> 2.6.25.
>
> Various attempts at debugging have gotten one example of:
> gtkhtml-CRITICAL **: html_clue_append: assertion `clue != NULL' failed
> and with gdb, I've seen one fault starting in html_object_calc_size ()
> with the backtrace going into /usr/lib/libgtkhtml-3.14.so.19 and a few
> others starting there.
>
> I'm on gentoo linux, and my default is to build without debug info, so
> at this point I'm open to suggestions on what other information to
> gather before expecting much help.  If necessary, I can rebuild balsa
> with debug info.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.

A stack trace would be most useful[1]. If the crash is related to html  
messages, it sometimes helps to Edit /Preferences/Display  
Options/Message/Prefer text/plain over html.

Pawel
[1] http://balsa.gnome.org/bugs.html , search for gdb.