[SunHELP] Solaris 8 and Mutt Segfault (Patch Cluster Maybe ?)

[Phil Stracchino]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 05:00:16PM -0500, Chris Hall wrote:
> [alaric at caerllewys.net] Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 05:42:15PM -0400 wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 04:30:12PM -0500, Chris Hall wrote:
> > >   welp, it is not the patch cluster, i updated the system where mutt is working
> > > the to the same cluster as the machine machine with the problem. and mutt still 
> > > functions. at this point i am stumped. anyone have any pointers on how to track 
> > > down what is causing this app to segfault ? 
> > 
> > Other recently-built executables on the machine work correctly?
> > 
>  Yes, Problem seems to be with mutt only.
> 
> > Have you tried temporarily moving your keyrings and creating a dummy
> > keyring?
> > 
> 
>   Yes, To add to that, It seems that it is not the number of keys in a keyring
> but, may be the size of the public keyings. In testing at one point we had 15 
> keys (some large) and mutt puked. At another time we had up to 27 before 
> mutt would puke (using both pgp and gpg). As i said in the first e-mail, i have 
> figured out when mutt calls "pgpring -5 ''" and during reading/parsing ??? of it's 
> output is when it will puke.  


What I'm wondering is whether it's not an issue of number or size of
keys, but key format.  I don't believe the latest open PGP source
codebase supports all possible key formats (this is, in fact, why I
switched to GPG -- I got tired of running into keys freeware PGP
couldn't handle).


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