Kmail on 4.8.3, Fedora 17 is constantly closing due to a segfault 11

[Victor B. Gonzalez]

I'm a bit happy. I found the bug report thanks to you Eli. I was going over it 
and I got two ideas out of it. The first was to switch from webkit to KHTML in 
Konqueror. I haven't used Konqueror in a long time so I did that *but* I was 
able to recreate the crash.

That alone didn't solve the problem but I left KHTML selected.

Further down in the bug report a user said "disable the cache in Konqueror" 
and so I did that and so far, no crashing. I mean, I followed my pattern for a 
little while and it never crashed. I haven't lost my faith completely but I 
wouldn't be surprised I get a crash soon but so far so good.

The bug report I found is here https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286307

Thanks Eli, hopefully I won't see a crash in a while.

On Sunday, June 10, 2012 11:29:10 AM Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> Yes... It is a known bug... Its been sitting in kde's bugzilla for
> over a year..... I guess they will fix it when they get a round-to-it.
> 
> 
> Anybody have any spare round-to-its to give them. :)
> 
> Eli
> 
> Quoting "Victor B. Gonzalez" <fedoraproject at vbgunz.com>:
> > It looks like you might be on to something. I don't load the external
> > references automatically so I decided to go click crazy in the pattern I
> > usually find myself crashing Kmail and it didn't crash.
> > 
> > I am guessing this is a known bug, any workarounds or is it being
> > addressed
> > and possibly fixed? I've got new ammo to google, thanks!
> > 
> > On Sunday, June 10, 2012 09:03:01 AM you wrote:
> >> If you afre allowing the loading of external references, try disabling
> >> that.
> >> 
> >> Eli
> >> 
> >> On Sunday 10 June 2012 01:04:02 Victor B. Gonzalez wrote:
> >> > On Sunday, June 10, 2012 07:32:25 AM you wrote:
> >> > > On Sunday 10 June 2012 00:25:02 fedoraproject at vbgunz.com wrote:
> >> > > > Hello,
> >> > > > 
> >> > > > I went through a session a couple hours ago and must have seen
> >> > > > about
> >> > > > 20
> >> > > > segfault 11's. I am not kidding, it's no exaggeration, I really
> >> > > > needed
> >> > > > to
> >> > > > do something important and I needed Kmail. I really needed it.
> >> > > > 
> >> > > > I lived with these constant crashes and in fact, I've probably
> >> > > > avoided
> >> > > > using my client because of them, up until the moment, I have no
> >> > > > choice.
> >> > > > I
> >> > > > won't write up a bug report because I can't reliably repeat them.
> >> > > > 
> >> > > > I don't even have an idea about why I am writing this, I guess I am
> >> > > > hoping
> >> > > > for a miracle. I want to keep using Kmail but I am near my wits
> >> > > > end.
> >> > > > 
> >> > > > Any ideas on what could be causing Kmail to crash.. a lot?
> >> > > 
> >> > > Try this...
> >> > > 
> >> > > Disable nepomuk.... reboot..  renable nepomuk... reboot. See if that
> >> > > clears
> >> > > things up. It did for me....
> >> > > 
> >> > > Sorry for the Windowsish suggestion.
> >> > > 
> >> > > 
> >> > > Eli
> >> > 
> >> > I disabled Nepomuk and rebooted. I launched Kmail and I got an error
> >> > (unable to fetch item from backend), I restarted Kmail and then tried
> >> > repeating what I was doing earlier to cause so many segfaults.
> >> > 
> >> > I can't say step for step what I am doing but the general idea is,
> >> > filtering the inbox for messages, then going through HTML messages and
> >> > clicking on links.
> >> > 
> >> > Boom Segfault 11. That was my first and I know I have no need to dig
> >> > further.
> >> > 
> >> > I am obsessed with using Kmail because I want as much of the KDE
> >> > experience
> >> > I can have, I love some of the principles but this is becoming too much
> >> > :(
> > 
> > --
> > Best Regards
> > Victor B. Gonzalez
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Best Regards
Victor B. Gonzalez