GLib-ERROR Mesage Running notmuch new

Nathan Edson nedson at nedson.net
Fri Dec 16 13:12:38 PST 2011


> 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
GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.2-1ubuntu11) 7.2
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
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
#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



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