GLib-ERROR Mesage Running notmuch new

[Austin Clements]

Quoth Nathan Edson on Dec 16 at  1:12 pm:
> > Since you're now building notmuch from source, could you build it with
> > make clean && make CFLAGS=-g and run it under gdb again to get a
> > backtrace?  I don't understand why strace didn't show it opening any
> > mail, but with debug symbols the backtrace should hopefully tell us
> > that.
> 
> First, thanks for your help!  Perhaps I am making progress...
> 
> Here is what I get:
> 
> yabai at newb:~$ gdb --args notmuch new
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> Reading symbols from /usr/local/bin/notmuch...done.
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/local/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  0xb7ce3e71 in raise () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> #2  0xb7ce734e in abort () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> #3  0xb7e87f27 in g_logv () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #4  0xb7e87f62 in g_log () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #5  0xb7e85c3c in g_realloc () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #6  0xb7e50965 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #7  0xb7e50d5d in g_array_append_vals () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #8  0xb7e520c0 in g_byte_array_append () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #9  0xb7f7fc94 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgmime-2.4.so.2
> #10 0xb7f80fbf in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgmime-2.4.so.2
> #11 0xb7f81761 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgmime-2.4.so.2
> #12 0xb7f829ea in g_mime_parser_construct_message () from /usr/lib/libgmime-2.4.so.2
> #13 0xb7fc1168 in _notmuch_message_index_file (message=0x13714078, 
>     filename=0x80d0600 "/home/yabai/Mail/old.mail") at lib/index.cc:437
> #14 0xb7fbef9f in notmuch_database_add_message (notmuch=0x806cd40, 
>     filename=0x80d0600 "/home/yabai/Mail/old.mail", message_ret=0xbffff414) at lib/database.cc:1734

Ah!  It did show up in the strace.  /home/yabai/Mail/old.mail appears
to be the offending file.  What's in it?

> #15 0x0804fd0a in add_files_recursive (notmuch=0x806cd40, path=0x806cb58 "/home/yabai/Mail", 
>     state=0xbffff634) at notmuch-new.c:459
> #16 0x08050273 in add_files (notmuch=0x806cd40, path=0x806cb58 "/home/yabai/Mail", state=0xbffff634)
>     at notmuch-new.c:635
> #17 0x08050ba0 in notmuch_new_command (ctx=0x80620e8, argc=0, argv=0xbffff7bc) at notmuch-new.c:897
> #18 0x0804d59a in main (argc=2, argv=0xbffff7b4) at notmuch.c:669
> (gdb) quit