Quoth Nathan Edson on Dec 16 at 1:12 pm: > > Since you're now building notmuch from source, could you build it with > > make clean && make CFLAGS=-g and run it under gdb again to get a > > backtrace? I don't understand why strace didn't show it opening any > > mail, but with debug symbols the backtrace should hopefully tell us > > that. > > First, thanks for your help! Perhaps I am making progress... > > Here is what I get: > > yabai@newb:~$ gdb --args notmuch new > GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.2-1ubuntu11) 7.2 > Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" > and "show warranty" for details. > This GDB was configured as "i686-linux-gnu". > For bug reporting instructions, please see: > <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... > Reading symbols from /usr/local/bin/notmuch...done. > (gdb) run > Starting program: /usr/local/bin/notmuch new > [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] > > GLib-ERROR **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./glib/gmem.c:239: failed to allocate 2147483648 bytes > aborting... > > Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. > 0xb7fe1424 in __kernel_vsyscall () > (gdb) bt > #0 0xb7fe1424 in __kernel_vsyscall () > #1 0xb7ce3e71 in raise () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 > #2 0xb7ce734e in abort () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 > #3 0xb7e87f27 in g_logv () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 > #4 0xb7e87f62 in g_log () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 > #5 0xb7e85c3c in g_realloc () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 > #6 0xb7e50965 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 > #7 0xb7e50d5d in g_array_append_vals () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 > #8 0xb7e520c0 in g_byte_array_append () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 > #9 0xb7f7fc94 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgmime-2.4.so.2 > #10 0xb7f80fbf in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgmime-2.4.so.2 > #11 0xb7f81761 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgmime-2.4.so.2 > #12 0xb7f829ea in g_mime_parser_construct_message () from /usr/lib/libgmime-2.4.so.2 > #13 0xb7fc1168 in _notmuch_message_index_file (message=0x13714078, > filename=0x80d0600 "/home/yabai/Mail/old.mail") at lib/index.cc:437 > #14 0xb7fbef9f in notmuch_database_add_message (notmuch=0x806cd40, > filename=0x80d0600 "/home/yabai/Mail/old.mail", message_ret=0xbffff414) at lib/database.cc:1734 Ah! It did show up in the strace. /home/yabai/Mail/old.mail appears to be the offending file. What's in it? > #15 0x0804fd0a in add_files_recursive (notmuch=0x806cd40, path=0x806cb58 "/home/yabai/Mail", > state=0xbffff634) at notmuch-new.c:459 > #16 0x08050273 in add_files (notmuch=0x806cd40, path=0x806cb58 "/home/yabai/Mail", state=0xbffff634) > at notmuch-new.c:635 > #17 0x08050ba0 in notmuch_new_command (ctx=0x80620e8, argc=0, argv=0xbffff7bc) at notmuch-new.c:897 > #18 0x0804d59a in main (argc=2, argv=0xbffff7b4) at notmuch.c:669 > (gdb) quit