[Alpine-info] NULL ice in paint_index_line

[Matt Ackeret via Alpine-info]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2025, Eduardo Chappa via Alpine-info wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jul 2025, Christian Kujau via Alpine-info wrote:

>

>> For a long time now Alpine would sometimes show the following in its

>> status bar below:

>>

>> NULL ice in paint_index_line: reg index, msgno=9,238 line=41

>> [....]

>> I'm tracking the latest Alpine version from Git (currently 2e10831) and

>> compile it myself on this Linux machine:

>>

>> ./configure --prefix=/opt/alpine --disable-debug --disable-mouse \

>>   --disable-keyboard-lock --without-krb5 --without-ldap --without-tcl \

>>   --without-ntlm --with-ssl --with-default-dead-letter-folder=.dead-letter

>>

> my suggestion is to quit alpine, restart it, go to the configuration screen and

> set

>

> Status Message Delay                = -1

>

> then reproduce the problem, and once it has happened, go to the main screen,

> press J, then set the debug level to 9 and find what is happening before the

> problem begins.


interesting, I started a thread about this in 2018..  

I'll try doing these at some point, I think there was some way I was hitting this always
(with my HUUUUGE number of items in INBOX).