Comment 15 for bug 233990

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Alain EMPAIN (alain-empain) wrote : Re: [Bug 233990] Re: Bare lf in mdn message from crashing thunderbird

> On 2009-03-21 19:53, John Vivirito wrote :
>> http://cr.yp.to/docs/smtplf.html does not show a dialog box.
> That is obviously not the description of the bug.
> It's a description of the rule that Thunderbird is violating.
> The bug is described in
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/233990
>> can you please give us a screenshot of the problem.
>>
> Do you need any other shot than the error message I attached in
> Screenshot-Alert.png?
> Feel free to ask a screenshot of a normally running Thunderbird (before
> the crash) and/or of an empty desktop (after the crash), I can make them.
>> I do not see anything in any of the links that shows us your problem.
>>
> Do you think the 6 messages like this one in the syslog file excerpt I
> attached are normal?
>> /var/log/kern.log:May 22 12:36:52 daria-ubuntu kernel: [52297.778220]
>> thunderbird-bin[27840]: segfault at 4072c00c eip b6e4f6e4 esp bff1cfb0
>> error 4
>> what is the bare lf in the example you attached?
> A bare linefeed is not a nudist fisher but a LF that is not preceded by
> a CR.
> In order to find a bare linefeed in the mdnmsg message file I attached,
> you need to look inside the file to find it, for example, by doing this :
>

André,

si ton correspondant n'a pas le sens de l'humour, il va maintenant essayer
de comprendre tes jeux de mots ! Et c'est reparti pour un tour épicé
d'autres blagues qu'il va essayer de décrypter au premier niveau.

Et te demander qu'est ce qu'un nudiste vient faire pêcher ici ;-)

J'ai bien rigolé...

A+

Alain

> $ hd mdnmsg
> 00000000 44 61 74 65 3a 20 54 68 75 2c 20 32 32 20 4d 61 |Date: Thu,
> 22 Ma|
> 00000010 79 20 32 30 30 38 20 31 33 3a 31 37 3a 33 35 20 |y 2008
> 13:17:35 |
> 00000020 2b 30 32 30 30 0d 0a 46 72 6f 6d 3a 20 41 2e 50
> |+0200..From: A.P|
> ... ----- (fully clothed)
> 000000b0 70 63 6d 46 79 5a 41 3d 3d 3f 3d 0a 20 3c 41 5f
> |pcmFyZA==?=. <A_|
> ... -- (bare)
>
> Once again, if you showed my bug description to a developer, he would
> not ask all those questions but he would make a patch in less than one
> hour. Almost one year ago.
> I hope you're in the believing state now.
> And that the bug is in the confirmed state.
> Thank you.
>
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