Re: [PLUG] Mutt is haywire

["eric@lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

Oops.  Nevermind.  I just figured it out.

I run a perl program that I wrote to feed quotes to a pipe.
The pipe is called .signature and it's read for each file.
When I rebooted I did NOT start the perl program (forgot
about it) and the mutt program "hangs" while trying to read
from the pipe.

As Homer Simpson would say.... "D'OH!"

Live and learn (hopefully) :-)

Thanks everybody.


Eric


On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:24:14PM -0500, 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, but imho it's more like that DISPLAY is set incorrectly.
> 
> Can you launch your editor outside of mutt?
> 
> Walt



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