Hi, After another apt-get upgrade w3m-el compiled correctly. Looks like there was soemthing in /etc/mailcap that wasn't able to be parsed when w3m was loaded.
I can no longer reproduce the issue, so will close the bug. Peter C -- Dr Peter Chubb Tel: +61 2 9490 5852 http://ts.data61.csiro.au/ Trustworthy Systems Group Data61 (formerly NICTA)