Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 167285
reply segfaults on cursor move in high column
Last modified: 2018-04-11 04:08:40 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: On replying to a (particular?) message, adding text at the end of a long line of the original message past the 100th column, an attempt to use the arrow key to move left causes a segfault. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. reply to message 2. add text at end of quoted text until it's past column 100 3. press left arrow key (or shift left arrow or...) Actual Results: [Thread -1222284368 (LWP 6069) exited] [Thread -1243612240 (LWP 6037) exited] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1209103936 (LWP 6031)] 0x00713d66 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6 (when run with --debug, otherwise it just exits silently) Expected Results: the cursor should move left :-P Additional info: While the effect is 100% reproducible when replying to a particular type of message, I haven't been able to reproduce it otherwise. I'm not sure what the relevant characteristics are, but they (a) have attachments and (b) contain long lines with tab characters in them. (Actually the messages in question are from me, and the crash happened to the person who was replying to them. Since it lost everything typed before that, she was pretty annoyed. Personally I would never think of adding stuff to the end of a quoted line)
Version of thunderbird: thunderbird-1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Further investigation reveals that the crash only (and always) happens when typing into the attachment, ie the original message has an attachment, the attachment is included in the reply and modifications are made to the end of a long line in the included attachment, and then cursor movement is attempted. This is with plain-text emails; I haven't managed to reproduce it with html emails.
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
I can't reproduce this in FC6. I'm not sure that I got the relevant settings right when I tried, though, as the user who provoked this problem nolonger uses my machines.
Distribution against which this bug was reported is no longer supported; could you please reproduce this with the updated version of the currently supported distribution (Fedora Core 6, or Fedora 7, or Rawhide)? If this issue turns out to still be reproducible, please let us know in this bug report. If after a month's time we have not heard back from you, we will have to close this bug as CANTFIX. Setting status to NEEDINFO, and awaiting information from the reporter. Thanks in advance.
We haven't got any reply to the last question about reproducability of the bug with Fedora Core 6, Fedora 7, or Fedora devel. Mass closing this bug, so if you have new information that would help us fix this bug, please reopen it with the additional information.