Recently, there have been quite a few reports about mutt dying in the freopen() call in line 682 of mbox.c. All those who were experiencing this problem had recent updated the glibc packages on their system, and pretty much everywhere linking mutt against slang or recompiling ncurses helped. In order to further track this problem down, I'd like to request those who experienced this problem to provide me with the following information: - What were the precise version numbers of the ncurses and glibc packages installed on your system when mutt started crashing, including the development packages? Essentially, it would be nice if you could produce an environment in which a mutt compiled in a previously sane glibc 2.0 environment would crash, or an environment which is consitent as far as version numbers are concerned, but which doesn't permit the production of a non-crashing mutt. - Did you recompile precisely that version of ncurses with the new glibc header files, or did you use different ncurses sources? Hopefully, we can get a precise problem description to the attention of at least some distributors. Thanks. -- http://www.guug.de/~roessler/
