Quoth David Bremner on Dec 15 at 5:46 pm: > On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:18:26 -0800, Nathan Edson <nedson@nedson.net> wrote: > > When I run "notmuch new" I'm getting the following error: > > > > Processed 1 files (0 files/sec.) > > GLib-ERROR **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./glib/gmem.c:239: failed to allocate 2147483648 bytes > > aborting... > > Aborted > Hi Nathan; > > That looks like debian/ubuntu. Can you tell us more about your > environment? The version of gmime is usually pretty important. A backtrace would also be useful. Something like $ gdb --args notmuch new (gdb) run ... wait until it aborts (gdb) bt