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

[Ian D. Leroux]

On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:35 +0200, "Yavor Doganov" <yavor at gnu.org> wrote:
> So, to figure out where the problem lies, could you do the following
> steps, please (performing the next step is not needed if the prior
> step leads to successful results):
> 
> 1.  Do you start gdnc from your .bashrc/.xsession/etc?  As you said
>     you've never used GNUstep apps before, I doubt it.  GDNC should be
>     started automatically by the gnustep-base library, but the
>     implementation (via NSTask) is fragile, and upstream considers it
>     NOTABUG (i.e. they say that every GNUstep user should launch gdnc
>     in her init scripts explicitly).
>     Does the problem occur if you start gdnc in the session?
>     If it disappears, there's a bug in gnustep-base; and I'll send you
>     a test program to confirm this.

I've tried starting gdnc in my .profile, or manually in the shell
instance
I'm using for testing. and I still see the same segfault.
To check that I'm doing this right, here are the relevant lines I see in
$ ps ax
in each of the two cases

28485 ?        S<     0:00 /usr/bin/gdnc --daemon

28729 pts/2    S<     0:00 /usr/bin/gdnc --daemon

> 2.  If 1) fails, I'll send you another test program to confirm that
>     this is not the locking race condition that we've been bitten
>     before.

I await the test program with interest.