5:57 p.m.
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Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have
translators to read other languages for them.
Please describe as succinctly as possible:
- What happened.
- What you thought should have happened.
- Precisely what you were doing at the time.
Please also include any C or lisp back-traces that you may have.
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Dear Bug Team!
BBDB has been throwing me periodic error messages for
the past several months. At first I thought it was a
corruption in my .bbdb file, but now it looks like it's
a problem with BBDB itself, and less likely with VM. It
happens once every couple of days with various
addresses.
On my system:
bbdb-version => "2.32"
vm-version => "7.00"
emacs-version => "21.4 (patch 0) \"Solid Vapor\" XEmacs Lucid"
The error described below happens consistently with
mail from XEmacs developer Peter Brown. BTW, I filter
all XEmacs-related mail into its own folder with
procmail, which is why you see only XEmacs messages in
the example shown.
What happens is this: When I press n in a summary
window (M-x vm-next-message) I get an error like this:
Last error was:
Wrong type argument: listp, ["Rendhalver (Peter" "Brown)" nil nil nil
nil ("loescher(a)leo.org") ((creation-date . "2002-03-04") (timestamp .
"2002-03-04") (last-subj . "problems with patch-keywords"))
["Rendhalver (Peter Brown)" "brown)rendhalver (peter" #<marker at
89540 in .bbdb 0x8ad5844> nil]]
It doesn't go to the next line. However, I can go to
the next line using {C-n} (M-x next-line), and then
press space to read the message. *Sometimes*. Not in
this instance, because the next one is also an unread
message from the same sender. (I have vm-preview-lines
set to 0.) However, sometimes (but not always), the
message boundary seems to be messed up, i.e., I will
see some or all of the next message, or the whole
remainder of the folder, headers and all, will appear.
Here is a backtrace.
[ATTACHMENT ~/Backtrace, application/octet-stream]
This may be overkill, but here is what it looks like on
my screen. In the first image, notice that messages 2-4
are from Peter Brown, and have been read. (Somehow, I'm
not sure how. In the process of dinking with it to get
this tedious report done, things have changed.
Originally the first message from Peter was causing the
error.) The current message is #5, from Nick V.
Pakoulin. I press 'n' and this is what I see:
[ATTACHMENT ~/first.jpg, image/jpeg]
I turn on debugging and it looks like this:
[ATTACHMENT ~/second.jpg, image/jpeg]
It does seem that the message triggering the problem
must be unread.
Also, I find that in my .bbdb, there are *two* entries,
which I'm sure ought to be merged. I would do that, but
I was afraid it might make the bug disappear and I'd be
able to report this. I've been looking for an
opportunity to do so for weeks.
["Rendhalver (Peter" "Brown)" nil nil nil nil
("loescher(a)leo.org") ((creation-date . "2002-03-04") (timestamp .
"2002-03-04") (last-subj . "problems with patch-keywords")) nil]
["Peter" "Brown" ("Rendhalver (Peter Brown)") nil nil nil
("rendhalver(a)xemacs.org") ((creation-date . "2002-03-03") (timestamp .
"2002-03-04") (last-subj . "Re: VM users to test
'patch-keywords.el'")) nil]
Gut intuition leads me to suspect there might be
something funny with what looks like unmatched
parentheses in the first and second elements of the
list in the first example shown, and maybe that is
confusing BBDB.
That should be more than enough information to confuse
you all. I'm certainly confused myself.
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System Info to help track down your bug:
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uname -a: Linux miles.phx.mcd.mot.com 2.2.14-5.0 #1 Tue Mar 7 21:07:39 EST 2000 i686
unknown
./configure
XEmacs 21.4.0 "Solid Vapor" configured for `i686-pc-linux'.
Compilation / Installation:
Source code location: /home/lnewton/src/xemacs-21.4.0
Installation prefix: /usr/local
Operating system description file: `s/linux.h'
Machine description file: `m/intel386.h'
Compiler: gcc -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wshadow -Wsign-compare
Relocating allocator for buffers: no
GNU version of malloc: yes
- Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.
Window System:
Compiling in support for the X window system:
- X Windows headers location: /usr/X11R6/include
- X Windows libraries location: /usr/X11R6/lib
- Handling WM_COMMAND properly.
Compiling in support for the Athena widget set:
- Athena headers location: X11/Xaw
- Athena library to link: Xaw
Using Lucid menubars.
Using Lucid scrollbars.
Using Athena dialog boxes.
Using Athena native widgets.
TTY:
Compiling in support for ncurses.
Compiling in support for GPM (General Purpose Mouse).
Images:
Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin).
Compiling in support for XPM images.
Compiling in support for PNG images.
Compiling in support for JPEG images.
Compiling in support for TIFF images.
Compiling in support for X-Face message headers.
Sound:
Compiling in support for sound (native).
Compiling in support for ESD (Enlightened Sound Daemon).
Databases:
Compiling in support for Berkeley database.
Compiling in support for PostgreSQL.
- Using PostgreSQL header file: pgsql/libpq-fe.h
Internationalization:
Mail:
Compiling in support for "dot-locking" mail spool file locking method.
Other Features:
Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules.
Load-Path Lisp Shadows:
----------------------
(/home/lnewton/.xemacs/custom
/usr/local/lib/xemacs-21.4.0/lisp/custom)
Installed XEmacs Packages:
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(auctex :version 1.29 :type regular)
(apel :version 1.2 :type regular)
(ada :version 1.1 :type regular)
(Sun :version 1.13 :type regular))
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esd-sound native-sound scrollbar unix-processes multicast
network-streams subprocesses modules menu-accelerator-support menubar
berkeley-db md5 xemacs gutter tiff png gif jpeg xface xpm xbm
lisp-float-type linux dialog devices window-system base64)
Recent keystrokes:
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h e SPC m e s s a g e SPC t r i g g e r i n g SPC t
h e SPC p r o b l e m SPC m u s t SPC e BS b e SPC
u n r e a d . C-. C-f C-d C-n C-k C-d C-d C-SPC C-n
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n
C-w C-x C-o C-b C-f C-f C-f C-x C-s C-c C-, C-c C-.
misc-user
Recent messages (most recent first):
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Loading xemacsbug...done
Loading xemacsbug...
Wrote /home/lnewton/BBug
Quit
Quit: isearch
Wrote /home/lnewton/BBug
Wrote /home/lnewton/BBug
Wrote /home/lnewton/BBug
Wrote /home/lnewton/BBug
Wrote /home/lnewton/BBug
Completed
Completing file name...
Partially completed
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No presentation buffer.
Decoding MIME message...
Wrote /home/lnewton/.bbdb
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Lynn David Newton
Phoenix, AZ