Bug#434499: balsa: Balsa crashes when opening mailboxes or while composing mail

["Pierre M." <adrpmym yahoo fr>]

Package: balsa
Version: 2.3.17-1
Followup-For: Bug #434499

Hello all,

I'm Joe User of Debian Testing and I use Balsa.
Balsa has stopped working (it crashes) for some days when opening a mailbox (even an empty one) or while composing a new message.

I launch Balsa via an xterm : balsa &

I somethimes get :
(balsa:3453): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: specified instance size for type `LibBalsaMimeStreamShared' is smaller than the parent type's `GMimeStreamFs' instance size
libbalsa_lock_file(): fcntl errno 9.

Other try provides :
(balsa:3512): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed
Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0xb08)!

I'm not a DD but here is a suggestion : the first message is about MIME and Balsa has stopped working somewhat at the same time a gMIME update entered testing some days ago. Of course, I may be wrong.

I'd like to thank all the DD that have made it possible for Debian Balsa to catch up with upstream Balsa these last months.

PM

PS : I wish the BTS web input were already here to simplify the submission of this bug report ;)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages balsa depends on:
ii  gnome-ic 2.18.0-3                        GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libart-2 2.3.19-3                        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libaspel 0.60.5-1                        GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime l
ii  libatk1. 1.18.0-2                        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonob 2.18.0-2                        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonob 2.18.0-5                        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6    2.6-2                           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo 1.4.10-1                        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcomer 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2 common error description library
ii  libcompf 1:1.5.2-4                       Compress/decompress images for mai
ii  libesmtp 1.0.3-1.1                       LibESMTP SMTP client library
ii  libfontc 2.4.2-1.2                       generic font configuration library
ii  libgconf 2.18.0.1-3                      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade 1:2.6.1-1                       library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2 2.12.13-1                       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgmime 2.2.10-1                        MIME library, unstable version
ii  libgnome 0.8.1-2                         GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome 2.18.0-4                        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnome 2.14.0-3                        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnome 2.18.0-2                        The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii  libgnome 2.18.1-2                        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnome 1:2.18.1-2                      GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgpg-e 1.4-2                           library for common error values an
ii  libgpgme 1.1.4-1                         GPGME - GnuPG Made Easy
ii  libgtk2. 2.10.13-1                       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtkht 3.14.3-1                        HTML rendering/editing library - r
ii  libgtkso 1.8.5-1                         shared libraries for the GTK+ synt
ii  libgtksp 2.0.10-3+b1                     a spell-checking addon for GTK's T
ii  libice6  1:1.0.3-2                       X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.1-6                    MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap2 2.1.30-13.4                     OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libnotif 0.4.4-3                         sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  liborbit 1:2.14.7-0.1                    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango 1.16.4-1                        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpcre3 6.7-1                           Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libpopt0 1.10-3                          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6   2:1.0.3-1+b1                    X11 Session Management library
ii  libsqlit 3.3.17-1                        SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libssl0. 0.9.8e-5                        SSL shared libraries
ii  libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7                       X11 client-side library
ii  libxcurs 1:1.1.8-2                       X cursor management library
ii  libxext6 1:1.0.3-2                       X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixe 1:4.0.3-2                       X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6   2:1.1.1-1                       X11 Input extension library
ii  libxiner 1:1.0.2-1                       X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2  2.6.29.dfsg-1                   GNOME XML library
ii  libxrand 2:1.2.1-1                       X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrend 1:0.9.2-1                       X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  zlib1g   1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5                compression library - runtime

Versions of packages balsa recommends:
ii  aspell                      0.60.5-1     GNU Aspell spell-checker
ii  ispell                      3.1.20.0-4.4 International Ispell (an interacti
pn  yelp                        <none>       (no description available)

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