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

[Eli Wapniarski]

Disable cacheing?  huh.... Gonna try that. Hopefully this will work.  
And me too... Haven't used Konqueror in a very very long time

Eli

Quoting "Victor B. Gonzalez" <fedoraproject at vbgunz.com>:

> 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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