[Bug 150634] New: Intermittent crash at start before window displayed.

[Nick]

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           Summary: Intermittent crash at start before window displayed.
           Product: kmail
           Version: 1.9.7
          Platform: Gentoo Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: crash
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: nick.gentoo selfunaware com


Version:           1.9.7 (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          GCC 4.2.0 
OS:                Linux

Click on shortcut to start KMail (kmail -caption "%c" %i %m), sometimes it starts, sometimes it doesn't and crashes:

(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
(no debugging symbols found)
...
(no debugging symbols found)
[KCrash handler]
#6  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#7  0xb5805f91 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
#8  0xb5807571 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#9  0xb583b227 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
#10 0x0000000f in ?? ()
#11 0xbfef49c4 in ?? ()
#12 0x00000400 in ?? ()
#13 0x00000000 in ?? ()

I upgraded my kernel from 2.6.22-gentoo-r6 to -r8. That's when I noticed this problem. I haven't found any clue as to why it starts one time and crashes another.

System is:
2.6.22-gentoo-r8 i686
Dell E1505
1.6GHZ 2GB RAM