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From: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
To: Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: emacs crashes
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:38:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxltenzi.fsf@steelpick.2x.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinmREqTQYL8J=OyY0fJqwgA0Szk+=AQa_amyB_e@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Brian May wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have found certain emails, when I try to view them with the emacs
> notmuch client, will cause emacs to crash (segmentation fault). Every
> time, 100% reproducible.
> 
> A theory of have is maybe the emails are too big and the system can't cope, eg:
> 
> brian@aquitard:~$ notmuch show thread:00000000000104db | wc --bytes
> 943897
> brian@aquitard:~$ notmuch show thread:000000000000fbab | wc --bytes
> 3262660
> brian@aquitard:~$
> 
> These are emailed TSM Operational Reports, entirely ASCII (plus some
> non-ASCII rubbish), no attachments, with a large number of log
> entries.
> 
> An alternative theory is perhaps the non-ASCII rubbish (from weird
> filenames some of our users have) is causing problems.
> 
> Anybody else experienced similar results?

This should be already fixed -- see http://debbugs.gnu.org/6214. I'm not
sure whether the fix is available in an emacs release or only in the
development branch. It seems that Debian includes the fixes in its
packages (http://bugs.debian.org/586459).

-Michal

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-18  8:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-17  3:18 emacs crashes Brian May
2011-02-18  8:38 ` Michal Sojka [this message]
2011-02-20  0:54   ` Brian May

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