Hello Mikko, On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 06:16:52PM +0200, Mikko Rasa wrote: > Package: icedove > Version: 17.0-1 > Severity: normal > > My Icedove address book got corrupted for an unknown reason, and this > caused the program to segfault hard, without any kind of useful error > message. I eventually had to install the icedove-dbg package and use > gdb to figure out what was wrong. Now, I'm a developer so using a > debugger comes to me naturally, but an ordinary user would've probably > hit a brick wall, with there not even being any message to google for. > > The address book is still in the Mork text-database format, which has > been criticized for its failed attempt in being human-readable, as well > as inefficient use of space. It appears that fault tolerance can be > added to this list. Even if the file cannot be repaired, the user > should be told what's happening, and offered an option to delete the > damaged file and start over.
yes, Icedove should act better here, but this fixing has to be done upstream. So can you please check if there is a entry in the bugtracker on Mozilla? Did found some time make a GDB log with a backtrace? Regards Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
