Re: [PLUG] Mutt is haywire

[Philip McGraw <pmcgraw@pobox.com>]

I also use mutt.  In fact, I have been using a 1.5.x build of it
from CVS sources (for smime support, etc).

Although certainly I'm no expert in these matters, I would tend
to start diagnosing the problem by looking at the .so
dependencies (ldd `which mutt`) and maybe forcibly re-installing
the packages supplying those .so's.  Besides ld-linux.so.2 and
libc.so.6, libncurses.so.5 is the only other .so on which my mutt
directly depends.  Indirectly, mine also loads ISO8859-1.so and
CP1252.so, but if those were corrupted it seems like you would
have bigger problems running other programs too.

If reinstalling ncurses doesn't help, you might try using
something like:

strace mutt 2>mutt.strace.out

and then look at the mutt.strace.out file to see if it becomes
obvious what config file or .so got scrambled, perhaps by your
fsck.

HTH,
Philip

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 02:21:12PM -0500, eric@lucii.org wrote:
> I need some help desperately.
> 
> I use mutt.  It's worked fine for over a year.  Suddenly, I
> cannot compose an email to send.  The program freezes when it
> goes to open the output file to edit.  I have to kill the terminal.
> 
> The only thing that changed was I recently rebooted and had to 
> run fsck because the machine was powered down before the reboot
> was complete (different story for different day).
> 
> Since that time I've not been able to compose an email.
> 
> It creates the temporary output file in /tmp but never opens
> it up to edit.
> 
> I've moved .muttrc and .mailcap to other names without success.
> 
> Anybody have any ideas what's going on?
> 
> TIA!
> 
> Eric Lucas
> 
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