mail-notification-5.2 crashes on checking imap.gmail.com

[Mike Auty]

After a period of running mail-notification, it crashes with the following messages:

Cannot access memory at address 0x84
Cannot access memory at address 0x84

Bug-buddy produces a reasonable backtrace (attached). The culprit appears to be mn_mailbox_remove_stale_messages_cb, but I don't know how to read these traces very well.

Running mail-notification with -i produces the following:

** INFO: GMail: > a011 FETCH 808,809 UID
** INFO: GMail: < * 808 FETCH (UID 7049)
** INFO: GMail: < * 809 FETCH (UID 7050)
** INFO: GMail: < a011 OK Success
Cannot access memory at address 0x84
Cannot access memory at address 0x84

If there's any further information I can provide, tests I can run, or patches I can test, please just let me know... 5:)

[Jean-Yves Lefort (jylefort)]

I've found the bug. I will fix it and release 5.3 one of these days. Thanks for the info.

[Mike Auty (mike-auty)]

Thanks very much for the speedy response!

Once you've fixed it, is there any chance you could post the patch here so that I can apply it locally?
I use mail-notification daily, and having been without it for a few days I noticed the difference! 5:)
It would also mean you'd have it tested before rolling it into a 5.3 release. Thanks again...

[Jean-Yves Lefort (jylefort)]

As a temporary work-around, I think crashes will be avoided if you set the "/apps/mail-notification/display-seen-mail" GConf key to true, and if you refrain from using the "Consider new mail as read" feature.

[Jean-Yves Lefort (jylefort)]

This patch fixes the problem, please test it.

[Mike Auty (mike-auty)]

Thanks,

Unfortunately I only have gob2-2.0.15, and I wasn't easily able to track down your patches. Could you please point me in their direction as well?
Sorry for all the trouble...

[Jean-Yves Lefort (jylefort)]

You don't need gob, the generated files are included in the patch. If jb insists on requiring gob, touch the generated files (touch build/src/*) after applying the patch.

[Mike Auty (mike-auty)]

Thanks, it was requesting to rebuild the files, but touching them worked just fine.

The patches applied fine, compilation went fine, and mail-notification is still running (been about half a day) with a few messages marked as 'considered read'. I'll let you know if I run into any further trouble, otherwise this looks like a good fix. Thanks again! 5:)

[Jean-Yves Lefort (jylefort)]

Fixed in 5.3