Re: Bug report: Balsa closing unexpectedly after receiving mail

[Emmanuel Allaud <eallaud yahoo fr>]

Francisco Ortiz Santini wrote:

> Using Balsa 2.0.14 in RedHat 9. During the last couple of weeks and 
> in  random manner, Balsa started to suddenly close just after 
> finishing  downloading mail from my POP3 service. No warning at all 
> was received  and the mail was actually received. I don't know it 
> there is a  relation, but by the same time this collapses started to 
> appear, I was  busy adding rules to a spam filter I created to deal 
> with the sudden  swarm of worm mails disguised as coming from 
> Microsoft that some other  people here has mentioned before.
> As said before, this sudden closings occurred at random and never  
> happened when I launched Balsa from a command prompt... until today.  
> Here is the report:
>
> [francisco@localhost francisco]$ balsa
> opening Correo..
> N_decl is: 5
>
> (balsa:6716): HtmlCss-WARNING **: Unhandled property: 353 tab-interval
>
>
> (balsa:6716): HtmlCss-WARNING **: Unhandled property: 80 page
>
>
> (balsa:6716): HtmlCss-WARNING **: Unhandled property: 319 mso-style- 
> parent
>
>
> (balsa:6716): HtmlCss-WARNING **: Unhandled property: 320 mso- pagination
>
>
> (balsa:6716): HtmlCss-WARNING **: Unhandled property: 322 mso-fareast- 
> font-family
>
>
> (balsa:6716): HtmlCss-WARNING **: Unhandled property: 323 mso-fareast- 
> language
>
>
> (balsa:6716): HtmlCss-WARNING **: Unhandled property: 345 mso-style- name
>
>
> (balsa:6716): HtmlCss-WARNING **: Unhandled property: 348 mso-gram-e
>
>
> (balsa:6716): HtmlCss-WARNING **: Unhandled property: 345 mso-style- name
>
>
> (balsa:6716): HtmlCss-WARNING **: Unhandled property: 346 mso-spl-e
>
>
> (balsa:6716): HtmlCss-WARNING **: Unhandled property: 319 mso-style- 
> parent
>
>
> (balsa:6716): HtmlCss-WARNING **: Unhandled property: 320 mso- pagination
>
>
> (balsa:6716): HtmlCss-WARNING **: Unhandled property: 322 mso-fareast- 
> font-family
>
>
> (balsa:6716): HtmlCss-WARNING **: Unhandled property: 323 mso-fareast- 
> language
>
> The program 'balsa' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadValue (integer parameter out of range for  operation)'.
>  (Details: serial 20102 error_code 2 request_code 55 minor_code 0)
>  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()  
> function.)
> [francisco@localhost francisco]$
>
>
>
> I must point out that the "HtmlCss-WARNING" messages at the beginning  
> were appearing before on several occasions without a collapse from  
> Balsa. The final part of the message was included with those warnings  
> when I was finally able to "catch" the bug. If further information is  
> required just let me know.
>

It could be just related to the HTML messages triggering a gtkhtml 
problem, but the best way is to run
balsa --sync
in gdb (as told in the error message) and give us the stack trace.
TIA
Bye
Manu