[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#568049: gnumail.app: GNUMail systematically segfaults at startup

[Ian D. Leroux]

On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:08:13 +0200
Yavor Doganov <yavor at gnu.org> wrote:

> Ian D. Leroux wrote:
> > I installed gnumail.app and found that, when launched with
> > $ GNUMail
> > it reproducibly segfaults after giving a long list of font-related
> > errors and an out-of-range exception.
> 
> Thanks for the report.  This looks like a gnustep-back problem;
> apparently the defoma script doesn't work reliably anymore.  Does
> GNUMail work if you install gnustep-back0.16-cairo and do (as a normal
> user):
> 
> $ defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSBackend libgnustep-cairo

That does remove the font-related errors.  The final segmentation fault
is the same however:

2010-02-02 07:43:09.079 GNUMail[27291] Problem posting notification:
<NSException: 0xf720c0> NAME:NSRangeException REASON:RangeError in
method -attribute:atIndex:longestEffectiveRange:inRange: in class
NSAttributedString INFO:(nil) Segmentation fault (core dumped)