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Re: [PLUG] Mutt is haywire
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On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 15:24, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 02:51:40PM -0500, Philip McGraw wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Considering he can run mutt up to the point of launching the editor to
> compose a message, I'd have to say it's highly unlikely that mutt
> itself is hosed. Likewise ncurses.
>
> It's possible that emacs/vim/pico/whatever editor he's using got
> hosed,
Therefore, if he still wants use strace, he should also get traces of
the processes mutt spawns (like an editor) :
$ strace -o mutt.strace -ff mutt
Which results in a series of files named mutt.strace.????, one for each
child process.
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