Error Running "notmuch new"

[Austin Clements]

Quoth Nathan Edson on Dec 15 at  2:08 pm:
> Hello,
> 
> I am running Ubuntu.  Here is what I get:
> 
> yabai at newb:~$ gdb --args notmuch new
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> Reading symbols from /usr/bin/notmuch...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/bin/notmuch new
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> 
> GLib-ERROR **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./glib/gmem.c:239: failed to allocate 2147483648 bytes
> aborting...
> 
> Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
> 0xb7fe1424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0xb7fe1424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> #1  0xb7ce7e71 in raise () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> #2  0xb7ceb34e in abort () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> #3  0xb7e8bf27 in g_logv () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #4  0xb7e8bf62 in g_log () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #5  0xb7e89c3c in g_realloc () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #6  0xb7e54965 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #7  0xb7e54d5d in g_array_append_vals () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #8  0xb7e560c0 in g_byte_array_append () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #9  0xb7f83c94 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgmime-2.4.so.2
> #10 0xb7f84fbf in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgmime-2.4.so.2
> #11 0xb7f85761 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgmime-2.4.so.2
> #12 0xb7f869ea in g_mime_parser_construct_message () from /usr/lib/libgmime-2.4.so.2
> #13 0xb7fc40fd in ?? () from /usr/lib/libnotmuch.so.1
> #14 0xb7fc1a45 in notmuch_database_add_message () from /usr/lib/libnotmuch.so.1
> #15 0x0804f521 in ?? ()
> #16 0x080501fe in ?? ()
> #17 0x0804c9c0 in ?? ()
> #18 0xb7cd3e37 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> #19 0x0804ba91 in ?? ()
> (gdb) quit

Interesting.  So this is probably a gmime bug, but try running
$ strace -eopen notmuch new

Just before it aborts, you should see a line saying that it's opening
some message in your maildir.  If you can share that message, send the
message file as an attachment.  If you can share just the headers, but
not the body, that's probably enough.