Bug 655776 – mail-client/neomutt-20180323 with sys-libs/ncurses-6.1-r2 - neomutt segfaults on start

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Lucian Poston 2018-05-15 05:17:13 UTC]

Same linker issue with libtinfo.so.6 linked before libtinfow.so.6 as described in https://bugs.gentoo.org/651552

Tracker issue for ncurses-6.1: https://bugs.gentoo.org/652080

workaround:
LD_PRELOAD=/lib64/libtinfow.so.6 neomutt

gdb bt:
#0  0x00007ffff6d10dc8 in _nc_setupscreen_sp () from /lib64/libncursesw.so.6
#1  0x00007ffff6d0c3ff in newterm_sp () from /lib64/libncursesw.so.6
#2  0x00007ffff6d0c8f8 in newterm () from /lib64/libncursesw.so.6
#3  0x00007ffff6d081e3 in initscr () from /lib64/libncursesw.so.6
#4  0x00005555555a985b in start_curses () at main.c:145
#5  0x00005555555aa1c0 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffdde8, env=<optimized out>) at main.c:447

[Comment 1 Nicolas Bock 2018-06-06 12:27:48 UTC]

Jason, I can't reproduce this with neomutt-99999999 or neomutt-20180512. Could you try this again? Thanks!

[Comment 2 Richard Russon 2018-06-06 21:46:19 UTC]

I can confirm the problem, but only for:
- version 2018-03-23
- slang (not curses)
- only for `-v` and `-h` where the UI wasn't started

It was fixed in release 2018-05-12
Commit: https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/2e179d322

[Comment 3 Lucian Poston 2018-06-06 22:25:23 UTC]

The issue isn't present in version 20180512 or 99999999

[Comment 4 Nicolas Bock 2018-06-07 10:36:37 UTC]

Thanks Rich and Lucian for the additional information! I will close this ticket then. Please re-open or open a new ticket if necessary.