[sylpheed:33436] Re: Sylpheed 3.0beta4 always dies when sending mail in an Ubuntu 64bit system - more detail

[John Shane]

On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:55:24 -0500
heymanj at acm.org wrote:

> 
> Just curious.  When sylpheed segfaults, do you get a core dump?
> You could also run it from within gdb and then when it segfaults you 
> will be able to see where (using 'whence' command).
> 
> Recompile with -g option (also link with -g).  Then in a window, do
> $ gdb sylpheed
> 
> you'll get the gdb info, and then the > prompt.  At the prompt, do:
> 
> > run
> 
> And it'll be off and running until such time that it segfaults.

Thanks for the reply, Jerry.  I was dreading going through the whole
gdb routine.  As you may have seen by now I recompiled without gtkspell
and no longer have the problem with segfaults.  Seems to be the
libenchant issue.  John