Sylpheed crashes just after launching

Bug #1006934 reported by terakin
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sylpheed (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I am using Sylpheed, an E-mail client, in precise amd64. I've just installed precise and installed Sylpheed just after completed installation, however, I encountered the trouble that Sylpheed crashes abruptly just after fetching E-mails.
The trouble happens when Sylpheed starts fetching E-mails, and it crashes just after displaying collecting a few mails. I checked my directory of sylpheed settings, .sylpheed-2.0, and found tmp/tmp.0000001 as a remnant of unsuccessful mail retrieval.
Upon execution from terminal, the error messages "Illegal instruction (core dumped)" has been displayed.

More curiously, this bug now not appears. I manually installed sylpheed 3.1.4 compiled from source code and confirmed it worked flawlessly (that is, no corrupted parts in setting files and mail boxes). After this conformation, I launched Sylpheed installed by the system, and it works ...

I am using precise, including ia32 and amd64 in several systems and keeps nearly same settings and same applications in them. That means Sylpheed is used in my several computers. However, I have not encountered such a strange trouble.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: sylpheed 3.2.0~beta5-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 31 22:58:22 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: sylpheed
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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terakin (terakinizers) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in sylpheed (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Shushi Kurose (kuromabo) wrote :

I also affeted this bug.

According to hiro(Author of sylpheed), this patch causes illegal reference to pointer.
He point out to Debian packager, so this patch replaced in 3.2.0~beta7-1.

* debian/patches/09fix_pointer_cast_size_mismatch.diff

http://sylpheed-support.good-day.net/bbs_article_body.php?pthread_id=466

Thanks.

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