FYI [Bug 289693] Kmail crash on exit

[Martin Kho]

On Tuesday 03 January 2012 17:12:54 Martin Kho wrote:
> On Sunday 01 January 2012 18:14:15 Colin J Thomson wrote:
> > On Sunday 01 Jan 2012 11:54:55 Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > Colin J Thomson wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 01 Jan 2012 00:02:57 Colin J Thomson wrote:
> > > >> On Sunday 01 Jan 2012 00:39:12 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > > >> > Colin J Thomson wrote:
> > > >> > > And Kmail2 still crashes, however in #289693 it is
> > > >> > > marked as fixed in
> > > >> > > 4.8
> > > >> > 
> > > >> > I already reopened the bug. All the fixes so far don't
> > > >> > work.
> > > >> 
> > > >> If another backtrace is needed after the updates applied on
> > > >> this box
> > > >> let
> > > >> me know.
> > > > 
> > > > I have just found another report + fix possibly related to
> > > > #289693
> > > > 
> > > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289831
> > > 
> > > That's the patch we applied to kdepimlibs-4.7.95-2 , doesn't seem to
> > > help any (for me).
> > 
> > I was not sure if it was the same patch, fyi it does not help here
> > either.> 
> > > It's fairly obvious by now the qList is getting corrupted somehow,
> > > so
> > > efforts to change how it's items are free'd essentially don't help
> > > much at this point.
> > 
> > OK, I'll keep an eye on kde.bugs, maybe a comment and new back trace
> > could be added to #289831 (which is marked as fixed) saying that the
> > crash still happens.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Today for me too, Kmail2 crashed as described above. The crash happened
> after I had removed some email messages. Kmail2 got really lost. Header
> info and message bodies were mixed up, sometimes kmail2 hung up or crashed.
> So I think the problem - as Kevin already said - is not in the destroy
> methode (c.q. qDeleteAll), but is somewhere in the manipulating
> (creation/removing) methodes of the qList.
> 
> Hope this test case (removing mail) can help.


BTW. Tried deleting mails in kmail 4.7.4 (fedora 16) and this works fine So a 
commit somewhere after the release of kde 4.7.4. introduced the trouble.

> 
> Martin Kho
> 
> > Colin
> 
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