Fetchmail will segfault when trying to access a corrupted
.fetchids file.
A meaningfull error message would have saved me some days
without mail :)
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giancarlo(_at_)garf:~/fetchmail-5.8.0 > ./fetchmail -V
This is fetchmail release 5.8.0+NLS
Linux garf 2.4.3 #11 Wed Apr 25 17:54:21 MEST 2001 i686 unknown
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
giancarlo(_at_)garf:~/fetchmail-5.8.0 > gdb fetchmail core
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Core was generated by `./fetchmail -V'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /lib/libcrypt.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libcrypt.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libresolv.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libresolv.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6
7Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_compat.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_compat.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libnsl.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_dns.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_dns.so.2
#0 0x400b6e15 in __strcasecmp (s1=0x0, s2=0x8087eb8 "gisco.digibel.be")
at ../sysdeps/generic/strcasecmp.c:64
warning: Source file is more recent than executable.
64 '\360', '\361', '\362', '\363', '\364', '\365', '\366',
'\367',
(gdb) bt
#0 0x400b6e15 in __strcasecmp (s1=0x0, s2=0x8087eb8 "gisco.digibel.be")
at ../sysdeps/generic/strcasecmp.c:64
#1 0x8060e07 in initialize_saved_lists (hostlist=0x8086ef8,
idfile=0x8082bf8 "/home/giancarlo/.fetchids") at uid.c:165
#2 0x8054279 in load_params (argc=2, argv=0xbffff74c, optind=2) at
fetchmail.c:1256
#3 0x8051546 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbffff74c) at fetchmail.c:245
#4 0x40077a8e in __libc_start_main (main=0x8051310 <main>, argc=2,
argv=0xbffff74c,
init=0x804991c <_init>, fini=0x806aa1c <_fini>, rtld_fini=0x4000aa20
<_dl_fini>,
stack_end=0xbffff744) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:92
(gdb)
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