| Stephen Gran on Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:00:06 -0500 |
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On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 02:21:12PM -0500, eric@lucii.org said: > 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 You have, as others have said, either an $EDITOR problem or a $DISPLAY problem. To diagnose, try running mutt from a console, rather than a term in X. If it still fails, then it's presumably an $EDITOR problem. You can then try running that editor and seeing what goes wrong (strace, etc.). To fix mutt, just switch editors in .muttrc. HTH, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Life only demands from you the strength | | steve@lobefin.net | you possess. Only one feat is possible | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | -- not to have run away. -- Dag | | | Hammarskjold | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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