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

[Ian D. Leroux]

On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:32 +0200, "Yavor Doganov" <yavor at gnu.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the new backtrace.  Now could you put a break on
> -[NSAttributedString attribute:atIndex:longestEffectiveRange:inRange:]
> and when you reach it, do
> 
> (gdb) p rangeLimit.location
> (gdb) p NSMaxRange (rangeLimit)
> (gdb) p [self length]
> 
> We have to figure out why the exception occurs.

Breakpoint 1, -[NSAttributedString
attribute:atIndex:longestEffectiveRange:inRange:] (self=0xc81600,
_cmd=0x7ffff786f1b0, attributeName=0x7ffff796a8d0,
    index=0, aRange=0x7fffffffcf30, rangeLimit=...) at
    NSAttributedString.m:451
451     NSAttributedString.m: No such file or directory.
        in NSAttributedString.m
Current language:  auto
The current source language is "auto; currently objective-c".
(gdb) p rangeLimit.location
$1 = 4140973011
(gdb) p NSMaxRange (rangeLimit)
$2 = 4141005778
(gdb) p [self length]
$3 = 6
(gdb)

> Meanwhile (whatever the results from the above are), I'd greatly
> appreciate if you can test gnustep-gui from experimental.  There are
> many fixes and improvements, and it would save us a lot of efforts.

I'll read up on experimental and try to test that version of gnustep-gui
out tonight (in 6-8 hours or so).

Thanks for your time!