On 08/05/2012 12:26 PM, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
The problem is a corrupted address book (the address book consists of
the XML files in ~/.claws-mail/addrbook). claws-mail tries to access the
'uid' field of an<address> entry and crashes because that field is
missing.
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Opening claws-mail and trying to compose a message results in a
backtrace that looks very much like yours.
So, before forwarding this problem to the claws-mail developers, I’d
like to confirm with you that this is indeed what happens. There’s
multiple options for confirming this issue or working around it so you
can use your mailclient until it’s fixed:
1) mv ~/.claws-mail/addrbook ~/.claws-mail/O.addrbook
This moves your addressbook out of the way. Afterwards, start
claws-mail and see if it doesn’t crash. If so, your addressbook is
indeed the cause.
2) Open the addrbook-*.xml files in ~/.claws-mail/addrbook with a text
editor and check if you spot missing uid-entries or otherwise obvious
corruption.
Hi Michael,
you're a genius! I have 3 address book xml files in that folder, 00001
was the most recently updated so I started there, using your suggested
option 2. I did indeed find some entries that were appended to the file
by Claws Contacts, I believe. At any rate, after saving it with another
name, I removed the block that clearly wasn't similar to the earlier
entries, saved the original file and launched claws-mail, it works again.
I think it's more an issue of claws contacts misbehaving, and if you're
sending something to the claws-mail devs, here's the link for the
original bug report I filed with them:
http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2705
And feel free to close this bug report. Thank you!
Cia W.
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