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

[Eli Wapniarski]

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 :(
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> Victor B. Gonzalez
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