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. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.5.0-core2 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages icedove depends on: ii debianutils 4.3.4 ii fontconfig 2.9.0-7 ii libasound2 1.0.25-4 ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2 ii libc6 2.13-37 ii libcairo2 1.12.2-2 ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.8-1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.100-1 ii libevent-2.0-5 2.0.19-stable-3 ii libffi5 3.0.10-3 ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-7 ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-4 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.33.12+really2.32.4-3 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-2 ii libhunspell-1.3-0 1.3.2-4 ii libjpeg8 8d-1 ii libnspr4 2:4.9.3-1 ii libnss3 2:3.14-1 ii libnss3-1d 2:3.14-1 ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1 ii libpixman-1-0 0.26.0-3 ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.14.1-1 ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-1 ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-4 ii libvpx1 1.1.0-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.1-2 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.7-1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.3-1 ii psmisc 22.20-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 Versions of packages icedove recommends: ii myspell-en-gb [myspell-dictionary] 1:3.3.0-4 ii myspell-en-us [myspell-dictionary] 1:3.3.0-4 ii myspell-fi [myspell-dictionary] 0.7-18 Versions of packages icedove suggests: pn fonts-lyx <none> ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.10.1+dfsg-3 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
