Re: Urgent: Balsa crashes on send - one reason found

[Helmut Jarausch <jarausch skynet be>]

On 09/08/2017 03:00:06 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi
> I haven't changed Balsa nor its configuration. But my Gentoo system  
> changes
> nearly each day.
> Suddenly, I cannot send emails with Balsa. It crashes all the time  
> with:
> Starting program: /usr/bin/balsa
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
> [New Thread 0x7fffe2d46700 (LWP 30677)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe1df8700 (LWP 30678)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe15f7700 (LWP 30680)]
> ** Message: init gpgme version 1.8.0
> ** Message: protocol OpenPGP: engine /usr/bin/gpg2 (home (null),  
> version 2.2.0)
> ** Message: protocol CMS: engine /usr/bin/gpgsm (home (null), version  
> 2.2.0)
> ** Message: protocol GPGCONF: engine /usr/bin/gpgconf (home (null),  
> version 2.2.0)
> ** Message: protocol Assuan: engine /run/user/230/gnupg/S.gpg-agent  
> (home !GPG_AGENT, version 1.0.0)
> ** Message: protocol UIServer: engine /run/user/230/gnupg/S.uiserver  
> (home (null), version 1.0.0)
> ** Message: protocol Spawn: engine /nonexistent (home (null), version  
> 1.0.0)
> ** Message: OpenPGP protocol supported
> ** Message: CMS (aka S/MIME) protocol supported
> Network is available   (Thu 07 Sep 2017 07:47:48 PM CEST)
> [New Thread 0x7fffe08b5700 (LWP 30693)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffd30a8700 (LWP 30873)]
>
> Thread 1 "balsa" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x00007ffff24748a7 in g_main_context_prepare ()
>    from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
> (gdb) where
> #0  0x00007ffff24748a7 in g_main_context_prepare ()
>    from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0

To remember:

On my "old" system (from August, 2017) Balsa worked just fine.
Then - after some upgrades to my Gentoo system - Balsa crashed each  
time - see above.

I now had time to upgrade my  "old" system  step by step to see which  
update broke Balsa.

And here is the result:

Upgrading from enchant-1.6.0 to enchant-1.6.1 causes this error above.

Then I went back to my current system with all packages up-to-date (new  
glibc new glib, new gcc, ....)
Balsa still crashed on this system.

But, downgrading  enchant-1.6.1 to enchant-1.6.0 made Balsa working  
again.
That is the only change that was necessary.

There are several other packages here, e.g. geany, which use enchant,  
work just fine with enchant-1.6.1
except Balsa

Hopefully this helps to track down the problem within Balsa.
If I can help please tell my how.

Helmut