segfault causes system freeze

[steve]

Le 23-11-2018, à 09:52:59 -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy a écrit :

>On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 07:30:00AM +0100, steve wrote:
>>I think it's when I just go back from editing with vim to the pager.
>>
>>>Also, are you using IMAP?
>>
>>Yes I do via offlineimap.
>
>It sounds like this may be triggered by offlineimap updating while you 
>are in the middle of composing the message.
>
>NeoMutt checks for new mail in the pager too, but it looks like in 
>1.7.2 they botched the redraw-data updates, setting "max" before the 
>index data structures were updated.
>
>It looks like this is fixed in the latest version link posted by Jörg. 
>However, I think it would be tricky to get Debian/Ubuntu to patch this 
>for a non-security issue.  Your best bet would be to update.

You mean compiling myself the last git version? I'd like to stick to
Debian's version if possible.

> Another workaround might be turning off $pager_index_lines.

Currently it's set to
pager_index_lines=9
which I find useful. 

Since the problem hasn't occurred for the 4 last days, I'll wait a bit
before your suggested workaround.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Have a nice weekend.

Steve